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Most Recent in Politics:

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

2Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’

3Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

4The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

5Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

6First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

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:

1Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

2Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

3Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

4Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

5How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

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

Most Recent in Education:

1Hostile Takeover

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

3First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

4Dallas ISD Considers Ending Suspensions for Young Students

5Hundreds Rally to Reject ‘Racist’ Mexican-American History Text

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

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’

Tag Archives: Loon Star State

Loon Star State, Old Tea Partiers' Home, Donald Trump, Ben Sargent

Loon Star State: Old Tea Partiers’ Home

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Tue, Aug 16, 2016 |

This month in Ben Sargent's award-winning Loon Star State cartoon: Tea Partiers miss the glory days as Trump-touting whippersnappers take over the GOP....Read More

Texas Republicans trek through the grim and trackless wilderness.

Loon Star State: Donald’s Hair

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Fri, Jul 8, 2016 |

In this edition of Ben Sargent's award-winning cartoon, Loon Star State, Texas Republicans trek through the grim wilderness of the Donald's coiffure....Read More

June 2016 Loon Star State

Loon Star State: Office of the Head Christian

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Wed, Jun 8, 2016 |

In the June edition of Ben Sargent's award-winning Loon Star State cartoon, Dan Patrick reworks the job description of "lieutenant governor," just slightly....Read More

Donald Trump looks for his brown shirts.

Loon Star State: The Donald Gets Dressed

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Thu, May 12, 2016 |

In this month's edition of Ben Sargent's award-winning cartoon, Loon Star State, Donald Trump finds a selection of non-sartorial brown shirts....Read More

Loon Star State, April 2016

Loon Star State: GOP Delivery

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Tue, Apr 12, 2016 |

In this month's edition of Loon Star State, by award-winning Texas cartoonist Ben Sargent, the GOP gets a special delivery....Read More

Loon Star State

Loon Star State: D.C. Forbids Travelers From Texas

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Fri, Mar 4, 2016 |

In the March edition of award-winning cartoonist Ben Sargent's Loon Star State, the folks in D.C. are getting a little worried about a Texas threat....Read More

Loon Star State: Ted Cruz applies for "Christian-Warrior-in-Chief."

Loon Star State: Christian-Warrior-in-Chief

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Wed, Feb 10, 2016 |

In February's Loon Star State cartoon, drawn by award-winning artist Ben Sargent, Ted Cruz embarks upon a job search... for a highly specific position....Read More

Ben Sargent's Loon Star State cartoon.

Loon Star State: Greg’s Campfire Stories Were Legendary

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Fri, Jan 15, 2016 |

In this month's Loon Star State cartoon by Ben Sargent, Greg Abbott tries to spook the kiddies with terrifying tales of Syrian refugees....Read More

Ben Sargent's Loon Star State cartoon.

Loon Star State: Professionals

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Wed, Dec 9, 2015 |

In this edition of Loon Star State, cartoonist Ben Sargent takes on the right-wing distaste for establishment — or perhaps, "professional" — politicians....Read More

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