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Indigenous Activists Set Up Protest Camp at South Texas Cemetery to Stop Trump’s Wall

Environmentalists, veterans of the Standing Rock protests and Carrizo/Comecrudo tribal members are vowing to stare down the president's bulldozers.

by Gus Bova

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New Contract Could Give Austin One of the Most Transparent Police Departments in the Country

by Michael Barajas

‘Beyoncé in Formation’ is a Texas Professor’s Love Letter to Queen B

by Doyin Oyeniyi

Dolores Huerta is Still Knocking on Doors and Registering Voters at 88

by Gus Bova

paid sick leave May 24, 2018

Activists Take Paid Sick Leave Fight to San Antonio with 144,000 Signatures

On Thursday, San Antonians turned in roughly twice the number of signatures necessary to get mandatory paid sick leave on November’s ballot.

by Gus Bova

Mar 30, 2018

Militarization of Texas-Mexico Border a Sign of Complacency, but Not From Border Residents

You can come back to Brownsville, but be ready to put in some work.

by Dani Marrero Hi, Lissette Castillo and Sadie Hernandez

Mar 22, 2018

Asylum-Seeker’s Release Shows Activists Can Win Under Trump’s ICE

But it ain’t easy.

by Gus Bova

Inside this month's print issue

More People Will Die If Texans Don’t Speak Up for Women’s Bodies

The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade is part of America’s long, shameful history of punishing women for having sex.

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The Magazine

Aug 02, 2017

‘Bathroom Bill’ Opposition Mounts after Trans Activist is Brutally Attacked

Opponents, including activist Stephanie Martinez and Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, say the ‘bathroom bill’ would further fuel anti-trans violence.

by Michael Barajas

Aug 01, 2017

Red is the New Orange: Handmaids Bring More than Just Silence to the Abortion Fight

The grassroots group of reproductive justice activists have seized a terrifying political moment and created a defiant act of pop-cultural resistance.

by Andrea Grimes

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