Most Recent in Texas Politics:

12021 Texas Lege in Review: Red Meat, Broken Promises, and More of the Same Old Shit

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5The Lege This Week: Bitterness and Brinkmanship

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Most Recent in Environment:

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2How the Alabama-Coushatta Use Fire to Save the Longleaf Pine

3La Niña Brings Wildfires

4Robert Bullard Isn’t Done Yet

5ERCOT Asked Texans to Conserve Power as Electric Grid Again Struggled to Keep Up with Demand

6One Researcher’s Quest to Quantify the Environmental Cost of Abandoned Oil Wells

Most Recent in Border:

1Follow the Money

2Siguiendo La Ruta Del Dinero

3Texas Activists Took Their Fight Against a Natural Gas Project Abroad—And They’re Winning

4‘Not Celebrating Yet’: South Texans Wait for Biden to Cancel Trump’s Wall

5How Texas Courts Went Virtual

6In ‘At the Ready,’ Latinx High Schoolers Train to Be Border Patrol Agents

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1An Irreversible Sentence

2Yet Again, Texas Lawmakers Face Crisis Conditions in Texas Prisons

3Armed With Lessons From a Dallas Serial Killer, Families Push for Reforms in Texas Law

4How Flawed Death Investigations Can Leave Texas COVID-19 Deaths Uncounted

5Editorial: Defund the Constables

6Uninvestigated, Uncounted: How Justices of the Peace Miss Important Clues in Death Investigations

Most Recent in Education:

1The Unlikely Demise of Texas’ Biggest Corporate Tax Break

2Texas Educators Worry Bill Limiting the Teaching of Current Events and Historic Racism Would “Whitewash History”

3‘I Felt Like They Were Demonizing My People’: Advocates and Families Point to Biases in Texas Curricula

4The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

5Efforts to Save What’s Left of Mary Allen Seminary Reveal The Challenges of Preserving Black Placemaking in Texas

6Texas Has the Widest Digital Divide in the Nation. What Does that Mean for the School Year?

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Editorial: Even ‘Turning Texas Blue’ Won’t Fix Us If We Don’t Face Some Hard Truths

2Portraits of the Pandemic: Part Two

3Editorial: Texas Wasn’t Prepared for the Statewide Vaccine Rush

4COVID-19’s Deadly Toll on Texas Workers

5COVID-19 Response has Been Starkly Different for Indigenous Communities in Texas

6After Sarah Davis’ Election Defeat, Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Worry About Losing a Powerful Republican Ally

Most Recent in The Interview:

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3How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

4Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

5Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

6American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

Most Recent in Books:

1‘Forget the Alamo’ Unravels a Texas History Made of Myths, or Rather, Lies

2‘On Juneteenth’ Refuses Easy Answers About the Importance of People of Color to Texas History

3‘Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing’ Tours Dark Places That Are Hard to Call Home

4Jung Young Moon’s Strange Novels Cross Continents

5Writer Rick Bass Fights for 20 Grizzly Bears

6‘Luz at Midnight’ Reimagines Blackouts, Polar Vortexes, and Environmental Justice in San Antonio

Most Recent in Features:

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4San Antonio Embraces Mandaean Refugees

5The Ghosts of Jefferson

6Little Arthouse on the Prairie

Most Recent in Essay:

1An Irreversible Sentence

2Editorial: Look Down Ballot for Democratic Wins in Texas

3What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas

4Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

5What’s a Bookstore for?

6Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

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2Eye on Texas: A House Divided

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5Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

6Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

Most Recent in Poetry:

1‘My Cousin Dies, Like a Deer, On the Side of the Road’

2Poet Claudia Delfina Cardona on Her Debut Poetry Chapbook

3Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

4Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

5Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

6Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

Articles tagged: Tony Tinderholt

Members convinced the Texas GOP to adopt outlawing abortion, regardless of federal law, as part of the official party platform in 2016.

by Sophie Novack

Meet the ‘Abortion Abolitionists’ Shaping Policy in the Texas GOP

The most extreme anti-abortion group in the state has gained momentum this year and now claims to have 90,000 members.

Wed, Jul 17, 2019 |

With the far right ascendant in Texas politics, once-marginal ideas and people have found a place in the political mainstream. Our recurring Fringe Factor serie...Read More

Pro-choice demonstrators wave a banner in the rotunda as an anti-abortion crowd holds crosses and signs behind them.

by Lyanne A. Guarecuco

Lawmaker: Criminalizing Abortion Would Force Women to be ‘More Personally Responsible’

The bill sends a clear message that the Texas GOP will continue to invade women’s constitutional right to privacy beyond what is allowed under federal law.

Mon, Jan 23, 2017 |

The bill sends a clear message that the Texas GOP will continue to invade women’s constitutional right to privacy beyond what is allowed under federal law....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

WTF Friday: The End of Days, The Alamo, The Gays

Fri, Feb 27, 2015 |

Like Lt. Gov. Patrick Dan, I don’t know if the end days are today or a thousand years from now. But it sure as hell feels like they may already be here. Moms ...Read More

by Christopher Hooks

Tony Tinderholt Might Be Texas’ Most Far-Right Candidate. Can He Win?

Fri, Oct 17, 2014 |

Tony Tinderholt might be the weirdest, most far-right candidate running for the Texas House. Can Democrat Cole Ballweg beat him?...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

WTF Friday: Texas Secede!

Fri, Sep 19, 2014 |

This week, the world watched as a proud people with funny accents, lots of oil and a long history of oppression at the hands of a distant, semi-foreign governme...Read More

by Christopher Hooks

Tony Tinderholt Unloads: ‘People are Going to Die’ at Border

The "only thing that's going to stop the infiltration of our country" is a lot more people dying, says state rep candidate.

Fri, Sep 12, 2014 |

One possible state Rep. has a plan to stop the "infiltration of our country" by "theiving" migrants who want only "free stuff:" Shoulder your rifles....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

WTF Friday: Cliven Bundy Aftermath

Fri, Apr 25, 2014 |

This week in WTF: A man and his cattle cannot be torn asunder. Noblesse Oblige and the Texas Nationalist Movement. Don't f*ck with Charlie Parker's wife....Read More

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