Texas’ Top Voucher Vendor Taps Abbott Allies in Contract Bid, Program Rollout
The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.
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The Company You Keep
Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.
Trump Would Doom the U.S. Department of Education and Harm Texas Teachers
Educators are calling for more funding, support, and a system that protects them. Removing the DOE would only perpetuate the problems.
The Far Right Wants to End Out-of-State Abortion. Amarillo Is in the Way.
Texas' biggest popular vote on abortion post-"Roe" pits local advocates against an abortion travel ban that's part of a scheme to block the path to New Mexico.
What Trump 2.0 Would Mean for Texas
The state’s ruling conservative class stands to gain bigly, while everyone else will face the fallout of a radical second term.
Turning Trauma Into Activism: She’s Fighting for Reproductive Rights in Texas and Beyond
Amanda Zurawski, whose lawsuit challenging state abortion bans was ultimately rejected by the state's high court, wants Republicans to rue Roe’s demise come November.
Loon Star State: ‘Hail to the…’
A dark future for the Supreme Court
Greg Abbott Compares Hamas Attacks to Texas Border Crossings at Sheriffs’ Conference
The governor’s comments followed a screening of raw October 7 footage for Texas lawmen.
Their Laws. Our Bodies.
Two years after the constitutional right to abortion was eliminated, what’s left of Texans’ reproductive rights is ambiguous.