Wrecking Women’s Healthcare
Low-income Texans depend on family planning clinics. The clinics depend on a program that's in trouble.
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Goodbye to a Neighborhood
The industrial takeover of Freeport’s East End, a historically Black community, is almost complete.
Prison Journalist Shows Why We Need a Free Press—Even Behind Bars
Jason Walker has been reporting from inside his cell at great risk to his personal safety.
The Texas Observer Lives!
After a terrifying near-death experience, we live to muckrake another day.
Abortion Laws Stand Between Pregnant Texans and the Care They Need
Doctors are left to guess at whether helping their patients will land them in prison.
I Am a Trans Texan
A state resident ties the current gender panic to fascist politics through the lens of their own experience.
The Life, Death, and Life of San Antonio’s Symphony
A decades-long fight for high art is also a fight for organized labor in the state’s second-largest city.
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Abortion Training in Texas Is Vanishing
And traveling out of state won't fix it.
Farewell to a Beloved State Park
Texans—already starved for public land—have bid adieu to Farfield Lake State Park, a well-visited patch of parkland between Dallas and Houston.
The New Children’s Crusade: Recruiting for America’s Culture War
Powerful interests are sending Texas youth out to do battle against LGBTQ+ people, abortion, and progressive causes.