Texas Legislature

School Vouchers Take Center Stage in Texas’ Most Flippable State House District

On San Antonio’s South Side, a progressive Democrat faces off with an architect of the new private school voucher program.

The “magic dust” of adding funny drawings to words has been an important part of the Texas Observer.

Raemonn James, better known as Hermajestie the Hung, teamed up with a filmmaker to tell a moving story of activism and queer culture.

The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on "explicitness" before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn't comply.

"Surges in immigration do not constitute an 'invasion' within the meaning of the Constitution."

Four nonprofits are urging the United Nations to pressure the federal government to protect queer residents of the Lone Star state.

After 12 years in office, the junior senator podcasts more than he legislates. But history suggests Texans will give him six more years to talk.

Senate Bill 4 could be the vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to finally unleash Lone Star Republicans on the world’s huddled masses.

It’s the latest instance of the state party’s right-wing officialdom embracing extremism, and vengeance, above all else.

A young teen reporter covers the Ken Paxton impeachment on typewriter, serpents fall from the sky and more dispatches from far-flung Texas.