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4Could Private Prison Cash Become a Liability for Texas Democrats?

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Most Recent in Border:

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2‘Recipe for Disaster’: New Family Detention Center Could Open in South Texas

3Loon Star: Due Process

4The Trump Administration Deported up to 12 Parents Without Their Very Young Children

5Despite Protests, Willacy County Forges Ahead with Resurrection of Notorious Immigrant Detention Center

6The Trump Administration’s Own Numbers Show ‘Zero Tolerance’ Didn’t Work

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Legislation to Abolish ICE Indicates Movement is Gaining Mainstream Traction

2College Degree Options Are Disappearing for Women in Texas Prisons

3After Years of Working with ‘Ritmo’ Detainees, I Know the Inhumane Facility Doesn’t Deserve a Second Chance

4Williamson County Votes to End Contract with Detention Facility Holding Separated Mothers

5Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

6Waco Immigrant Mom Locked Up for 2 ½ Years, Alleges Sexual Assault by Guard

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3SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

4Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

5Texas Teachers ‘Blow the Whistle’ After Conservatives Accuse Them of (Gasp!) Getting out the Vote

6Nazis Go To School

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2New Lawsuit Challenges Dozens of Texas Anti-Abortion Restrictions

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4‘We Love Our Neighbors, but It’s a Sin’: A Dispatch from a ‘Sex Ed Sitout’

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6Texas Has the Most Cities More than 100 Miles from an Abortion Clinic, Study Finds

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4Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

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2Announcing the Eighth Annual Observer Short Story Contest

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5‘Driven’ is an Edgy Memoir of Cars, Crises and Coming of Age

6A Feminist Literary Classic Gets a Timely Reissue, and it’s Still Maddeningly Relevant

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4Field Notes from Santa Ana

5The King of Pulp

6Ride Like a Girl

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3Somewhere It Hides a Well

4Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

5The Road to Huntsville

6The Impossible City

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2Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

3Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

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6Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

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1Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

2Parallel Planes

4Poem: ‘Resistance’

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6Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

Tag Archives: Tyrant’s Foe

Josh Gravens

by Emily DePrang

Tyrant’s Foe: Josh Gravens Fights Criminal Justice Policies that Hurt Children

Thu, Nov 6, 2014 |

Josh Gravens is using his experience as a child on the sex offender registry to help combat criminal justice policies that hurt children. ...Read More

Mike Seifert Tyrant's Foe

by Melissa del Bosque

Tyrant’s Foe: Mike Seifert is a Catalyst for Change in the Valley

Wed, Oct 1, 2014 |

Mike Seifert is the seemingly tireless organizer for RGV Equal Voice Network, a coalition of nonprofits that tackles social justice issues in South Texas....Read More

Carol Biedrzycki

by Sarah Mortimer

Tyrant’s Foe: Carol Biedrzycki Fights for Electricity Ratepayers

Mon, Sep 22, 2014 |

For fighting for affordable electricity rates for low-income Texans, Carol Biedrzycki of Texas ROSE is a tyrant's foe. ...Read More

Kelsey Erin Shipman

by Sarah Mortimer

Tyrant’s Foe: Kelsey Erin Shipman’s Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration With Poetry

Tue, Aug 12, 2014 |

If somebody told you that the key to stopping thousands of Texas inmates from reentering prison was teaching them how to write poetry, you might laugh out loud....Read More

Mary Ann Barclay

by Fauzeya Rahman

Tyrant’s Foe: Mary Ann Barclay is Out in Front of the Methodist Church

Mon, Jul 21, 2014 |

Last April, Mary Ann Barclay met with the United Methodist Church’s Austin district leadership after years of preparing to become an ordained minister. She’...Read More

Dejuana Lozada

by Mikaela Rodriguez

Tyrant’s Foe: DeJuana Lozada is Helping Minority Students Succeed

Wed, May 21, 2014 |

DeJuana Lozada was once homeless at age 11. Today, she is advocating for better education for students of color....Read More

Ellis Pickett fights erosion of the Open Beaches Act.

by Mikaela Rodriguez

Tyrant’s Foe: Keeping Beaches Open to All

Wed, Apr 9, 2014 |

For fighting to keep the coast open to the public, Ellis Pickett is a tyrant's foe. ...Read More

by Mikaela Rodriguez

Tyrant’s Foe: Meet the Anti-Frackers

Wed, Mar 12, 2014 |

For helping to pass an anti-fracking ordinance in Dallas, Raymond Crawford is a tyrant's foe. ...Read More

Fred Lewis

by Natalie Krebs

Tyrant’s Foe: Fred Lewis is Helping Underserved Communities Turn Out the Vote

Mon, Jan 6, 2014 |

As head of Texans Together, Fred Lewis helps poor and minority Texans gain a say in state government....Read More

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