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The cover of the January/February 2024 issue of Texas Observer magazine shows a stylized photo of a Latinxs woman shooting video on her smartphone as she holds it out the window of her car. Headline: La Gordiloca, Laredo’s citizen-journalist provocateur goes head-to-head with police in court, by Jason Buch. Other headlines: The Observer at 70, A longtime leader looks back at our best work, by Eva Ruth Moravec. The Lost Promise of Refuge Ranch, A treatment center for survivors of sex trafficking fails to meet its mission, by WIllow Higgins. Memorializing Juneteenth, A museum honoring the news of slavery’s end is in the works in Fort Worth, by James Russell. A Texas symbol reads “since 1954”.

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