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Most Recent in Politics:

1Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

2The Texas Miracle #24: Rick Perry’s Last Dance

3Hooks: Dems are Missing Their Chance to Give Obama His Transformational Legacy

4Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits

5Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

6Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’

Most Recent in Environment:

1Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

4Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

5The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

6Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

Most Recent in Border:

1Eddie Canales on Saving Migrant Lives in Brooks County

2Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory

3Hundreds Gather to Remember the 1966 Texas Farmworkers’ March

4In Texas, Trump Signals a Plan for Victory in Defeat

5Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

6Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

2Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

3Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

4Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

5Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

6How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

Most Recent in Education:

1Texas State Quietly Removes Confederate Monument

2Some Texas Schools are Still Fighting Decades-Old Desegregation Orders

3Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

4South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

5Hostile Takeover

6Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

2The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

3Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Are Bound Together in Texas

4Crisis Pregnancy Center Among Texas Repro Health Contractors

5Oil and Gas Smog Projected to Cause 140,000 Asthma Attacks in Kids

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

2The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

3The Interview: Frank Jackson

4The Interview: Cecile Richards

5The Interview: Anthony Graves

6The Interview: Elliott Naishtat

Most Recent in Books:

1All the Wrong Moves

2In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up

3Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People

4Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait

5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

Most Recent in Postcards:

2Feathering Their Nest

3The Business of Burying Horses

4Fragile Species

5Rotten Apples in Donna ISD

6Holding Back the Flood

Most Recent in Essay:

1How Ali Inspired a Generation of Chicano Activists

2David Bowie in Aztlán

3The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States

4The New Migrants

5How the 1% Gardens

6Our Blue Period

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

2Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

3Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

4Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

5Eye on Texas: Xiomara, a Domestic Worker Who’s ‘Invisible in Austin’

6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

3Poem: ‘I Could Have a Thousand Husbands’

4Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston

5Poem: ‘Poets And Antidepressants’

6Poem: ‘While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling in Love’

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Does the District 41 incumbent, Democrat Bobby Guerra, have his seat firmly by the reins?

by Andrea Grimes

Dead Squirrels, Kids with Guns and Chuck Norris: The 2016 Texas Primary Field, in Photos

Does she think my tractor's electable?

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Fri, Feb 12, 2016 |

The basics: we analyzed 464 photos from 198 candidates. We didn’t pull photos from incumbents who aren’t being challenged. We only pulled relatively recent ...Read More

Democratic House candidate Denise Hamilton spoke Monday night during a forum at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano as moderators Dan Panetti, worldview director at Prestonwood Christian Academy, and Texas Values President Jonathan Saenz look on.

Democratic Hopefuls Brave Far-Right Prestonwood Baptist

‘I will not eat your souls,’ one aspiring lefty state representative advised the conservative congregation.

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Wed, Feb 3, 2016 |

After hosting six GOP presidential hopefuls in October, Prestonwood’s newly formed “Culture Impact Team” staged a forum Monday for local and state candida...Read More

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by Kelsey Jukam

‘American Laws for American Courts’ Proposals Met with Skepticism

Wed, Mar 25, 2015 |

Some state lawmakers are concerned that American courts may not follow American laws. There’s no evidence of, say, Swedish common law creeping into the Texas ...Read More

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Conservative Veterans Slap Down Tea Party Freshmen In Budget Fight

Fri, Apr 5, 2013 |

The budget debate turned out to be much less contentious than last session. Conservative veterans scolded Tea Party freshmen hoping to make more cuts....Read More

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by Olivia Messer

Texas Survey Finds Overwhelming Support for Birth Control Access, Opposition to Family Planning Cuts

Tue, Feb 19, 2013 |

Are Texas Republicans wildly out of step with most of their constituents when it comes to family planning, birth control and sex ed?...Read More

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