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🎶It’s His Party and He’ll…🎶

... try to efficiently administer the primary process and persuade people to fill empty precinct chair positions, among other duties.

by Gus Bova

Keep Reading

West Texas Congressman’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Cuts Could Harm Rural Hospitals in His District

by Josephine Lee

A Venezuelan Was Detained as a ‘Documented’ Gang Member by ICE, Which Refused to Provide Proof

by Francesca D’Annunzio

U.S.-Mexico Border Militarization Fails to Stop Modern Drug Smuggling Industry

by Angeles Ponpa

Jul 25, 2024

Loon Star State: ‘Hail to the…’

A dark future for the Supreme Court

by Ben Sargent

Jun 25, 2024

Pastor’s Admitted Child Sex Abuse Roils Hotbed of Christian Nationalism

But some Texas Republicans, who’ve campaigned on ostensibly protecting children from sexualization, are conspicuously quiet.

by Steven Monacelli

May 16, 2024

Loon Star State: ‘The Above the Law Society’

Ken Paxton enters an exclusive club.

by Ben Sargent

A cartoon of Texas with the words "Loon Star State" inside its outline. The "L" in "Loon" is wearing a hat that's part cowboy and part dunce cap. Apr 10, 2024

Loon Star State: Cult of the All-Powerful Orange Czar

by Ben Sargent

A composite image. At left, the cover to Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here. At right, A child is being picked up off a crowded trailer covered with migrants. Jan 22, 2024

What Does the United States Owe Central America?

A new work of nonfiction revives a history that some would sooner see forgotten.

by Gus Bova

May 16, 2022

The San Antonio Border Security Expo Is Decadent and Depraved

Robot dogs, cocktails, a shooting competition, and more taxpayer money than you can shake a drone at.

by Gus Bova

Jan 06, 2022

Inside the U.S. Capitol Insurrection

A Texas photographer finds himself shoulder to shoulder with rioters on January 6, 2021.

by Christopher Lee

Sep 01, 2021

To the Right, to The Right

Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton both won Donald Trump’s coveted endorsements. But their 2022 primary battles are just beginning.

by Justin Miller

Nov 08, 2018

Trump’s Sabotage of ACA Enrollment Is Particularly Dangerous in Texas

The attacks on enrollment outreach come as Texas’ uninsured rate increased last year to more than 17 percent — the highest since 2014.

by Sophie Novack

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