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Most Recent in Politics:

1The Good News (and the Bad) for Beto O’Rourke in that Quinnipiac Poll

2Beto’s Not the Only Texas Democrat with a Big-Dollar Haul

3Who is Mary Street Wilson?

4Payday Lenders Are Working Hard to Keep Texas the ‘Wild West’ in Trump Era

5Parsing Governor Abbott’s National Guard Charade

6Trump Nominates Austin Attorney Who Stymied Investigation Into Trump University

Most Recent in Environment:

1Trump’s Border Wall Lands Rio Grande on List of Nation’s Most Endangered Rivers

2Alleging ‘Environmental Racism,’ El Paso Activists File Civil Rights Complaint Against School District

3‘The Natural History of Texas’ Celebrates the State’s Lesser-Known Critters and In-Between Places

4How the Fate of Texas’ Endangered Mussels Could Affect Water Usage Statewide

5Investigation Finds Culprit in Panhandle ‘Chemical Drift’ Case, State Yet to Take Action

6Dirtying the Waters: Texas Ranks First in Violating Water Pollution Rules

Most Recent in Border:

1Trump’s Border Wall Lands Rio Grande on List of Nation’s Most Endangered Rivers

2Militarization of Texas-Mexico Border a Sign of Complacency, but Not From Border Residents

3Elecciones presidenciales en México. ¿Finalmente puede ganar la izquierda?

4Will Mexico Elect its First Leftist President Since 1934?

5Courts: Police Can Shoot and Kill People As Long They Are Across the Border

6I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Galveston Lawsuit Is Writing on the Wall for Other Counties that Haven’t Ended ‘Wealth-Based Detention’

2Bail Lawsuit Accuses Dallas County of Violating Poor People’s Rights in Secret Hearings

3Courts: Police Can Shoot and Kill People As Long They Are Across the Border

4AG Opinion: Texas Cops Under Investigation Can Watch ‘Any’ Body Cam Footage Before Answering Questions

5Texas Prison System Sheds Men, Swallows Even More Women

6A Prison By Any Other Name

Most Recent in Education:

1Texas Teachers ‘Blow the Whistle’ After Conservatives Accuse Them of (Gasp!) Getting out the Vote

2Nazis Go To School

3‘I Would Have to Drop Out’: 200 Texas Grad Students Walk Out to Protest GOP Tax Bill

4Homelessness in Texas Public Schools is a Suburban and Rural Problem, Too

5Another Strikeout for Mexican-American Studies in Texas

6Amid Anti-Confederate Push, San Antonio School District Changes Lee High School … to LEE High School

Most Recent in Health Care:

2What’s Going on with Texas’ Maternal Mortality Rate?

3In Her Own Letter to Trump Officials, Texas Republican Fact-Checks Ken Paxton’s False Claims on Women’s Health

4Texas AG Ken Paxton is Very Angry About Women’s Health Programs He Doesn’t Seem to Understand

5Anti-Vaxxers are Claiming Victory After Texas Primaries. Will Their Influence Grow?

6‘Get High With Ricki Lake!’: New Film on Medical Marijuana Leaves Out Texas Families

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

2The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

3The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

4The Interview: Tom ‘Smitty’ Smith

5The Interview: Lupe Valdez

6The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

Most Recent in Books:

1On Giant’s Shoulders: New Cinema History Dissects Texas Tropes

2In ‘God Save Texas,’ Lawrence Wright Explains the Lone Star State to Outsiders

3‘The Natural History of Texas’ Celebrates the State’s Lesser-Known Critters and In-Between Places

4‘The Red Caddy’ Is Charles Bowden’s Pithy, Witty Posthumous Tribute to Edward Abbey

5Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

6‘BANG’ Offers a Dark Look at the Human Cost of Mexico’s Drug War

Most Recent in Postcards:

3Field Notes from Santa Ana

4The King of Pulp

5Ride Like a Girl

Most Recent in Essay:

1I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

2Somewhere It Hides a Well

3Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

4The Road to Huntsville

5The Impossible City

6Dear Governor Abbott: The ‘Bathroom Bill’ Endangers Trans Texans Like My Son

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

2Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

3Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

4Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

5Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

6Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

2Parallel Planes

4Poem: ‘Resistance’

5Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

6Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

Tag Archives: Republicans

Immigration Bills Going Nowhere this Legislative Session

by Melissa del Bosque

Wed, Mar 27, 2013

What a difference an election makes. Two years ago, Governor Rick Perry made the ban on sanctuary cities a legislative priority, and state Rep. Debbie Riddle (R...Read More

Kay Bailey Hutchison

by Cindy Casares

Republicans Flirt With Immigration Reform Again

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

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

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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