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As World Cup Unfolds, Immigrant Rights Organizers Seek a Reckoning over Dallas’ Relationship with ICE

Activists are tracking and trying to pressure the city over the use of its municipal airport for deportation flights, as visitors from around the world flood in.

by Emily Markwiese

Keep Reading

The Great Wilonsky Returns to the Newsroom

by Craig Lindsey

What Does the Allred-Johnson Runoff Tell Us About Texas Dems? 

by Tyler Hicks

As Contract Negotiations Drag On, Texas Starbucks Workers Have Learned the Power of Organizing

by Josephine Lee

Nov 12, 2024

Pride and Prejudice in Princeton, Texas

A school board vote to cancel a summer Pride event represented one of the first government-sponsored cancellations of the LGBTQ+ celebration in the Lone Star State.

by Candice Bernd

Oct 18, 2024

The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government

Conservative hotelier Monty Bennett and a California-based company that offers protesters-for-hire have seeded an “astroturf” right-wing influence network that has kicked into overdrive to push controversial “Dallas HERO” city charter amendments.

by Steven Monacelli

Aug 09, 2024

Bringing Home the Story of Ben Spencer

An innocent Texan was caught for more than three decades in a web of lies and injustice.

by Lise Olsen

Thousands march with Pro-Palestine signs and Palestinian flags in a protest demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The Texas Capitol, State Theatre and other landmarks of downtown Austin are visible. Jan 24, 2024

Will Texas Cities Stay Silent on Gaza?

From Austin to San Antonio and Dallas to Houston, pro-Palestine advocates are pleading with recalcitrant local officials to take a stand for Gazans.

by Gus Bova

A color photo of Eddie Bernice Johnson, wearing a blue jacket, gold hoop earrings and a rainbow scarf. Jan 03, 2024

The Era of EBJ Comes to a Close

Longtime Dallas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson passed away after a career that will be etched into the history of Texas politics.

by Justin Miller

A latinx woman in a black t-shirt reading "Allergic to Pendebrajas" stands in her suburban neighborhjood in West Dallas. Jan 02, 2024

How Texas Commission On Environmental Quality Helps Polluters Evade Federal Law

Environmental lawyers say the state watchdog agency lets polluters escape regulation through legal loopholes.

by Dylan Baddour, Martha Pskowski, and Alejandra Martinez

A fancy car is parked in front of a luxury apartment building, all glass windows, with Christmas lights in the trees. The effect is festive but sterile. Dec 15, 2023

Poem: From There to Here

A silhouette, stationed at his Dallas valet stand awaiting the healthy, the wealthy, the privileged, the favored.

by Ann Graham

A random scattering of crescent shapes from the leaves reflecting on a gray painted brick wall, with the leaves acting like pinhole cameras during the eclipse. Dec 01, 2023

Strangest State: Eclipses and Flying Snakes

A young teen reporter covers the Ken Paxton impeachment on typewriter, serpents fall from the sky and more dispatches from far-flung Texas.

by Texas Observer Staff

Judge Amber Givens on a Zoom call Nov 29, 2023

Texas Rangers Investigation Sheds Light on Dallas Judge’s ‘Bizarre’ Behavior

Dallas County Judge Amber Givens was accused of having her court coordinator impersonate her during a 2021 Zoom bond hearing, prompting a Rangers inquiry.

by Michelle Pitcher

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