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Most Recent in Politics:

1Court Revives Possibility that Texas Sheriffs Could be Jailed for Refusing ICE Detainers

2Destruction of Lizard’s West Texas Habitat 10 Times Worse Than Previously Thought

3Where do Texas Democrats Stand on Single-Payer Health Care?

4State Plans to Restore Services after Advocates in Wheelchairs Surprise Officials

5Trump Nominee to FEC Tried to Shred Texas’ Already-Weak Ethics Laws

6Religious Right Takes Bathroom Fight Back to Schools after Defeat at Capitol

Most Recent in Environment:

1Costs for Rural Towns Surge after Hurricane Harvey Hits Water Systems

2Destruction of Lizard’s West Texas Habitat 10 Times Worse Than Previously Thought

3Reports of Livestock Deaths, Other Ag Losses Trickle in After Harvey

4Flood Expert Jim Blackburn: Houston Must Plan or Perish

5Experts: Much of Harvey-Related Air Pollution was Preventable

6‘Look & See’ Is a Love Letter to Family Farming, Rural America and Wendell Berry

Most Recent in Border:

2Court Revives Possibility that Texas Sheriffs Could be Jailed for Refusing ICE Detainers

3Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court

4ICE Detained This Trafficking Victim on Her 18th Birthday. Why?

5‘Los Zetas Inc.’ Author on Why Mexico’s Drug War Isn’t About Drugs

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

2Court Revives Possibility that Texas Sheriffs Could be Jailed for Refusing ICE Detainers

3Body Cam Policies in Texas Exacerbate a System Designed to Protect Police, Critics Say

4Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court

5ICE Detained This Trafficking Victim on Her 18th Birthday. Why?

6The Road to Huntsville

Most Recent in Education:

1Despite ‘Hardship’ Funding, Rural Texas Schools Face Difficult Financial Future

2Loon Star State: Texas Public Schools

3Dan Patrick Accuses Joe Straus of Ponzi Scheme Ahead of Special Session

4Critics Fear New Texas Law Giving SBOE Wide Discretion Over Textbooks

5After Freedom Caucus Kills Her Legislation, Lawmaker Announces Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Campaign

6Texas’ ‘Lunch Shaming’ Problem and the Fight to Fix It

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Where do Texas Democrats Stand on Single-Payer Health Care?

2State Plans to Restore Services after Advocates in Wheelchairs Surprise Officials

3Judge Temporarily Halts New Texas Abortion Ban

4Despite Self-Congratulation, Lawmakers Did Virtually Nothing about Maternal Mortality Crisis

5Introducing the Texas Observer’s Rural Reporting Project

6Red is the New Orange: Handmaids Bring More than Just Silence to the Abortion Fight

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

2The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

3The Interview: Tom ‘Smitty’ Smith

4The Interview: Lupe Valdez

5The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

6The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

Most Recent in Books:

1Short Story Contest Finalist: ‘A Thunder Note in an Angry Sky’

2Short Story Contest Finalist: ‘Malena’

3The King of Pulp

4‘Sip’ Seeks Dystopian Depth, and Fine Dining, in the Shadows

5The Rising Storm

6Stalking Horse

Most Recent in Postcards:

1The King of Pulp

2Ride Like a Girl

Most Recent in Essay:

1The Impossible City

2Dear Governor Abbott: The ‘Bathroom Bill’ Endangers Trans Texans Like My Son

3Stalking Horse

4Protecting Immigrant Families: A Call for an Economic Boycott of Texas

5Cut from the Same Cloth: Wearing Hijab in Houston, Post-Trump

6Going It Alone

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

2Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

3Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

4Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

5Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

6Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Parallel Planes

3Poem: ‘Resistance’

4Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

5Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

6Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

Tag Archives: Republicans

Kay Bailey Hutchison

by Cindy Casares

Republicans Flirt With Immigration Reform Again

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Fri, Nov 30, 2012 |

Every so often, the GOP is beaten badly enough that some Republicans realize that appearing to support immigrants might be their ticket to relevancy with Latino...Read More

by Eileen Smith

Texas Democrats, Make Your Move

Fri, Nov 16, 2012 |

Forget about the great GOP awakening. Now is the perfect time for Texas Democrats to figure out what the hell they’re doing. The default explanation for their...Read More

Texas Republicans’ Reaction to the Election: Buy Guns, Secede

by Forrest Wilder

66 Comments | Thu, Nov 8, 2012

How did Texas Republicans react to Obama and the national Democrats' very good night? By hailing Texas as the conservative Shangri-La that will show the nation ...Read More

Democrat Pete Gallego won a hotly contested race against Republican Francisco Canseco

by Melissa del Bosque

Texas’ GOP Loses Ground with Hispanic Candidates

Wed, Nov 7, 2012 |

A day after the presidential election, even Republican strategists agree that Mitt Romney blew it with Latino voters and that the GOP has some serious soul sear...Read More

Eva Church has voted for the Democratic Party in every presidential election since immigrating to the United States in 1948.

by Emily Mathis

Faces of the Election

Tue, Nov 6, 2012 |

Eva Church immigrated to the United States with her husband in 1948 at age 18. She quickly became a citizen, and has since voted for the Democratic Party in eve...Read More

Is Poll-Watching Voter Suppression? Greg Abbott Says, ‘No—Wait, Yes!’

by Emily DePrang

Leave a comment | Fri, Oct 26, 2012

Dateline Houston is confused. Texas Republicans are passionately concerned about so-called voter integrity. Ensuring this integrity has spurred legislation, cou...Read More

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