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Castell was once Bettina, Texas, a Utopian community named for a German author and activist who championed the oppressed underclasses.

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Conservative Group Pushes Religious Books While Seeking to Ban Others

The Brave Books campaign, backed by Citizens Defending Freedom, promoted their own publications under the guise of protecting free speech.

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God’s Army Gathers in Fort Worth

Self-described Christian nationalist prophets, an election conspiracist, and the wealthiest pastor in America collide for a week of right-wing politics.

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Not Your Everyday Snow Cone

From Mexican to Taiwanese treats, an exploration of Bayou City's beautiful diversity through its finest shaved ice purveyors.

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Why Nurses Are Making Lone Star Labor History

The state’s largest private-sector nurses union struck this month to defend patient safety at Ascension Seton Medical Center.

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Unionized Texas Journalists Face Biggest Opponent Yet: Gannett

On Monday, Austin American-Statesman workers went on strike against Gannett. “I think that today is just a warning shot,” said one.

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Wrecking Women’s Healthcare

Low-income Texans depend on family planning clinics. The clinics depend on a program that's in trouble.

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Texas Ag imposes anti-trans dress code

Violators will be sent home to change; repeat offenders could face further sanction and termination

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‘We Are in a Crisis’: Texas Public Schools on the Edge

Vouchers and property tax cuts strike at a public school system already hemorrhaging hard-working employees.

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More Than Just a Number

Participants in Ms. Texas Senior America pageant embrace the golden years in all their glamor, gumption, and glory.

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Dragging Democracy into the Future

As the Texas Observer survives to muckrake another day, Steven Monacelli highlights the battle for democracy happening in the Lone Star State.

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Texas Observer will continue publishing after staff crowdfunds more than $300,000

The crusading liberal magazine had planned to lay off its staff and shut down. But the board has now reversed course.

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Texas Observer journalists raise $270,000 in bid to save publication

Magazine’s editors asked board not to lay off anyone for a month if staff raised $200,000 after Friday’s vote to cease publication

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Texas Observer editors protest layoffs, launch crowdfunding to save the 68-year-old magazine

Journalists at the progressive publication expect to be laid off this week. Relations between the board and senior staff have severely eroded.

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Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff

The 68-year-old progressive publication, which published Ronnie Dugger, Molly Ivins and Kaye Northcott, hit financial troubles and wasn’t able to broaden its audience, board members said.

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Clarence Brandley: Unjustly Convicted, Overdue for Justice

One of Texas’ most famous death row exonerees died before winning compensation under a law inspired by his own story.

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Farewell to a Beloved State Park

Texans—already starved for public land—have bid adieu to a well-visited patch of parkland between Dallas and Houston.

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The New Children’s Crusade: Recruiting for America’s Culture War

Powerful interests are sending Texas youth out to do battle against LGBTQ+ people, abortion, and progressive causes.

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Fair Hiring, Unfair Housing

There are laws and programs to help formerly-incarcerated Texans get employed, but finding a home can be far more challenging.

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Natural Gas Terminal Reopens After Massive Explosion

Regulators say the company fixed flaws at the natural gas plant which led compressed methane to burst from a pipe and catch fire.

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The Lost Reservoir Inside Our Water Infrastructure

Texas could meet much of its future water need simply by plugging leaks.

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Before ‘Lawrence’: From Sodomy to Queer Liberation

Wesley G. Phelps’ new history book reveals how gay persecution in the Lone Star State spurred the struggle for LGBTQ+ civil rights nationwide.

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Breaking the Brazos

Pollution and development are straining the mighty river that Spanish explorers once called "the Arms of God."

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Francis Wilkinson: Trump’s wall settles into a strange, costly afterlife

Donald Trump’s signature border wall is morphing in strange and costly ways — even as it seems to play little role in stemming illegal migration.

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Former Star-Telegram Conservative Columnist Spews Hate in Student Chatroom

Why was Carlos Turcios, an intolerant activist allowed to double-time as a columnist for a major Texas newspaper?

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