‘I Don’t Like Either of the Candidates’: Election Day on the Outskirts of Austin
'I just don’t like Hillary personally,' said one voter, who voted Trump at the top and Dems down ballot.
Since 1954
Gus Bova is the interim editor-in-chief of the Texas Observer. In 2016, he joined the Observer as an intern, later becoming a staff writer and an assistant editor. He's covered immigration, homelessness, labor, politics, and other major Texas stories. Before coming to the Observer, he worked at a shelter for recently arrived immigrants and asylum-seekers. He studied Latin American Studies at the University of Kansas.
'I just don’t like Hillary personally,' said one voter, who voted Trump at the top and Dems down ballot.
The pair took sanctuary in an Austin church eight months ago, hoping to avoid deportation back into danger at home.
Texas Greens say a vote for Stein isn’t a vote for Trump, promote down-ballot candidates.
Here’s where Texas’ top elected officials stand on the 2016 presidential race. (Hint: it’s mostly with Donald Trump.)
Critics say the orders aren't necessarily irrelevant just because they’re old.
Houston Democrat Garnet Coleman plans to file the Sandra Bland Act to promote statewide law enforcement reforms.
The 491-mile walk led to the first statewide minimum wage and effectively launched the farmworkers’ movement in Texas.
"Where do they think trans people have been going to the bathroom for years?"
"The Texas state government is bullying my child."
An appeals court derailed a class action lawsuit aimed at keeping payday lenders from using the criminal justice system to file charges against debtors.