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Legislature Mandates Sheriff-ICE Cooperation in Jails or Streets

Texas lawmakers are ordering all counties to seek federal agreements that may be limited to jailhouses—or may convert deputies into roving immigration agents.

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Texas House Passes Raft of Dan Patrick Priorities Imposing Conservative Mandates on Public Ed

In final days of session, the lower chamber voted to further advance the classroom culture wars.

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The Love and Loss of the Quintanillas

A new documentary uses archival family footage to retell the story of Selena y Los Dinos.

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Abbott’s Bail Crackdown Meets Mixed Fate in Texas House

The lower chamber approves key pieces—but only pieces—of the governor's pretrial incarceration agenda.

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Ronnie Dugger, 1930-2025

The Observer's crusading founding editor—a prolific author and agitator who helped animate the spirit of a true Texas liberalism—has died at 95.

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New Leads in an Infamous Corpus Christi Cold Case

An open-source review unearths fresh details about a Texas oilman’s murder.

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Texas Set to Create State Bitcoin Reserve

The latest version of the bill includes a previously nixed provision to allow Texans to donate crypto to the fund.

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Three Years Later, an Uncle in Uvalde Searches for Solutions on School Board

Jesse Rizo, who lost a niece in Texas' deadliest school shooting, turned pain into a run for public office. He thinks his town is beginning to “come back together.”

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Republicans Push to Define Biological Sex in Statute

“If biological sex were as obvious as lawmakers keep insisting that biological sex is, we wouldn’t be here.”

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Texas School Districts Slam the Senate’s School Finance Plan

“It’s like your house being on fire, and the fire department showing up with a 12 ounce cup of water”

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‘You Don’t Have to Kill Us. You Don’t Have to Throw Us Away.’

Clinton Young spent nearly two decades condemned to die. His peaceful, productive time out on bond poses questions about how Texas decides who lives long enough to get another chance.

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Texas Set to Execute Fourth Person of the Year on Tuesday

Matthew Johnson was convicted of the 2012 murder of Nancy Harris in Dallas County.

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Shipped to El Salvador: An Austin Immigration Lawyer on Her Teen Client’s Forced ‘Disappearance’

“Due process hasn’t been protected. The process that is set in place in this country that is the basis and foundation of our legal system was not allowed to work.”

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A Thirsty Tesla Refinery Could Exacerbate Corpus Christi’s Water Crisis

Local activists warn that while residents must ration, unimpeded industrial expansion is imperiling the region’s future.

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A Texas Writer Tackles a Subject ‘Beckoning in the Shadows His Entire Life’

Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a compelling new book.

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Texas Already Gives Public Ed Dollars to Private Operators. Here’s How That Worked Out.

The state created “Texas Partnership” charter schools to turn around struggling public campuses, but an Observer investigation has uncovered numerous academic and financial issues.

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Harrison the Huckster

The right-wing state rep has led an army of one on a self-righteous crusade in the Texas House.

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A Day in a Democracy

We still have one, after all, so may as well act like it.

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The Perils of Offshoring Justice

Texas and the U.S.–El Salvador Prison Pipeline

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‘It’s Not a War Zone’: Val Verde County’s Conservative Democratic Sheriff on Misinformation, Immigration

"Before people start commenting on the border, come visit the border. Right now there's nothing going on."

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Will Dan Patrick’s Senate Stymie Fentanyl Test Strip Legalization (Again)?

Legislation to allow some forms of drug checking has reached the same Senate committee where a similar bill died last session—two years and at least 3,200 Texas overdose deaths ago.

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The High Cost of Texas’ Property Tax Cut-and-Run Politics

Biennial promises of “relief” are just window dressing on a broken taxation system.

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The Crypto Racket

Bitcoin mining afflicts locals with noise pollution, threatens water supplies, and receives generous public backing.

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At UT, a Day of Drag and Defiance

Students gathered for a joyful protest of the university system’s drag show ban.

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Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our May/June 2025 Issue

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