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5The Green New Deal Can Exist in Texas

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1‘We Build the Wall’ Lands in South Texas, Vilifies Priest and Butterfly Refuge

2John Cornyn’s Weaselly Immigration Record

3Activists Rally for the Closure of Hutto Detention Center as Private Contract Rumors Swirl

4When ICE Emptied Out an All-Women Detention Center in Texas, Chaos Ensued

5The Fear—and Hope—of Living in Sanctuary

6Editorial: Reckoning with El Paso

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2Having My Period in Prison Was Awful. In Texas, That May Finally Change.

3The Movement to Free Rodney Reed Illustrates the Growing Unease Over Texas’ Use of the Death Penalty

4Potter County Criminal Defense System is Lambasted in a New Report

5Watch: ‘Life and Death in a Carceral State’

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2The Cost of Carve-Outs

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4Texas House Considers Free College For Students Experiencing Homelessness

5‘The Wolf is in the Henhouse’

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4State Investigators Identify ‘Serious Contractual Violations’ by the Heidi Group

5Critical Condition

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6If a Glacier Melts in the Arctic, the Texas Coast Feels It

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2American Cities Weren’t Revitalized by the White ‘Creative Class.’ Immigrants Made Them Great.

3Short Story Contest Winner: ‘Dear Mr. Gottlieb’

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5An Observer Staff Guide to the 2019 Texas Book Festival

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4Washington Crossing the Rio Grande

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6At Home in the World

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1Having My Period in Prison Was Awful. In Texas, That May Finally Change.

2Up From the Desert

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4Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

5The Trouble with Yoga

6Heads in the Mud

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2Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

3Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

4Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

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1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

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4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

6Options

Tag Archives: Tarrant County

While the Christian share of the national population has been dropping, the percentage of religiously unaffiliated has risen sharply, especially among younger adults.

by David R. Brockman

In NO God We Trust?

An atheist seminar in Fort Worth drew a capacity crowd, evidence that Texas’ growing nonreligious population is finding its political voice here in the Bible Belt.

Wed, Jul 24, 2019 |

The protester’s T-shirt read “REPENT or PERISH”; his sign said, “There are no atheists in HELL.” He and a few other fundamentalists were gathered at t...Read More

by Michael Barajas

How Tea Partiers Fueled Texas’ Latest ‘Voter Fraud’ Freakout

Election-related crimes are rare, but activists like Aaron Harris have become both a legal and political weapon in Texas Republicans’ war on election fraud.

Wed, Mar 6, 2019 |

by Michael Barajas March 6, 2019 In August, a group of outraged conservative activists sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter that helped spark Texas’ latest vote...Read More

by Michael Barajas

Civil Rights Groups Call Ken Paxton’s ‘VOTER FRAUD ALERT’ a Smokescreen for Voter Suppression

How a misleading advisory to county elections officials triggered fake news that Texas Republicans could use to bolster new barriers for voting.

Tue, Jan 29, 2019 |

Last month, after a double-digit increase in voter turnout during the midterms and the best election results Texas Democrats had seen in at least a quarter cent...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

The GOP Machine in Texas Seems to Finally Have Slipped a Gear

Over the last few years, something has been stirring in Texas. The midterm elections may signal a seismic shift in state politics.

Tue, Nov 20, 2018 |

After Beto’s near-victory, a thumpin’ in Harris County and surprisingly poor GOP performance in conservative strongholds Tarrant, Williamson and Collin coun...Read More

by Rose Cahalan

Strangest State: October 2018

Weird news from far-flung Texas.

Thu, Oct 4, 2018 |

SAN ANTONIO // Thieves smuggled a shark out of the San Antonio Aquarium by hiding it in a baby stroller. The San Antonio Express-News reports that Miss Helen, a...Read More

Cleopatra de Leon, Nicole Dimetman, Vic Holmes and Mark Phariss

Texas County Clerks Prepare for Same-Sex Marriages

Tarrant County won't issue licenses even if the stay is lifted; Bexar County will be open around the clock.

Tue, Dec 2, 2014 |

Same-sex couples in Fort Worth may have to go to Dallas to get licenses if a judge lifts his stay of a ruling striking down Texas' same-sex marriage bans. ...Read More

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