Why Texans Live and Die by the Gun
At the firearms training center, fear becomes the foundation of the state’s violent obsession.
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In Laredo, a County Judge and MAGA Convert Seeks to Topple Henry Cuellar
Tano Tijerina, who prominently switched parties after Trump’s 2024 inroads in South Texas, is trying to cash in on political connections while also casting himself as the insurgent outsider.
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One of the Top Texas House Races Could Come Down to a Single Issue: Water
As Corpus Christi reels from a severe water crisis, debates rage on at the city level and in a top targeted fight for state House District 34, currently held by a Republican.
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1.2 Million Oil Wells Are Buried Underneath Texas. Do You Live on Top of a Dangerous One?
Our state’s homes are built above a hundred years of drilling by an industry that was never made to clean up after itself.
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The Year for Magical Thinking
How one progressive Texan’s blog, filled with years of misplaced optimism and disproved predictions, has come to seem increasingly… reasonable
Will a Coalition of ‘MAGA Moms’ Rally Behind Gina Hinojosa’s Bid for Texas Governor?
Some conservatives say they won’t give Governor Greg Abbott a fourth term after what he’s done to the public education system in Texas.
Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick
An Abilene public school librarian has a message for the lieutenant governor and his book-banning crusade.
Border and Immigration
ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations
To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in court.
Mexico’s Deportation Capital
Tapachula, five miles from Mexico’s border with Guatemala, has become a principal destination for the world’s deportees. And in a cruel twist, even Mexicans expelled from the United States have found themselves there, regrouping after being deported—not home to Mexico—but first to Central America.
‘Living like Vampires’: ICE Surge Fractures Daily Life in Deep South Texas
“It’s gotten that bad: People don’t want to register their children to school. They don’t want to do groceries. They don’t even want to stop by the store for their morning coffee.”
Culture
Kam Franklin Goes Solo
The accomplished Houston musician, known as lead singer for The Suffers, draws on surprising sources of inspiration and puts “the message into the music” in her new album, “Land of the Neon Sun.”
‘Cocks Not Glocks’ at 10
A decade on, the iconic campus protest has come to symbolize a time of relatively free expression.
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