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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’

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Angelique Bartholomew has knocked on hundreds of doors during her campaign to represent Fort Bend County at the Texas Capitol.

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

A Runoff Campaign with Conviction in Fort Bend County

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Wed, May 18, 2016 |

If Texas state Representative Ron Reynolds loses his fight against a 2015 conviction for ambulance chasing, the popular Fort Bend County Democrat may go to jail...Read More

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by Michelle Garcia

Resurrecting the Legacy of Selena

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Tue, Jun 16, 2015 |

When I imagine a present-day Selena, I see the star power packed in her smile, the feminine power in her hips, and I hear the love in her songs. But mostly, whe...Read More

$Lela Lofton, right, and Amanda Renfro in an overnight protest against attempts to curtail local control of fracking.$ by Priscila Mosqueda

Democrats Cave on Measure Overturning Fracking Regulations

Wed, Apr 15, 2015 |

Despite vociferous opposition from local elected officials, environmentalists and citizens, many Democrats in the Texas Legislature are supporting controversial...Read More

The Texas Legislature's Sexist Little Secret

by Olivia Messer

The Texas Legislature’s Sexist Little Secret

Tales from "the last of the good ol' boys clubs."

Wed, Jul 31, 2013 |

Misogyny, as I had come to learn, is rampant in the Texas Capitol....Read More

by Olivia Messer

Hundreds Rally in Support of Planned Parenthood, Women’s Health

Thu, Mar 7, 2013 |

In contrast to the Planned Parenthood bashing at Tuesday’s Senate Education Committee hearing, hundreds rallied at the Capitol on Thursday morning to support ...Read More

Some Lawmakers Hope to Salvage Dwindling Legal Aid Funding

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

Leave a comment | Thu, Feb 21, 2013

We're in the midst of a funding crisis for legal aid, according to the Texas Access to Justice Foundation. Last session the Legislature gave $17.5 million to ci...Read More

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