A Rio Grande Valley murder case was botched and evidence lost by local police and by Texas Rangers. Will anyone ever be held ...
In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties ...
The revival of the Dilley detention center and a scorched-earth approach to immigration arrests has led advocates to embrace ...
Meet the veteran Dallas newspaperman and devoted follower of “the religion of righteousness and truth-telling.” ...
In Texas and beyond, Republican leaders continue to peddle dangerous lies trying to falsely cast Muslims as the “other.” ...
On his YouTube channel, Brandon Herrera has discussed the relative merits of weapons used in mass shootings and made light of political violence. He’s now on a glide path to the U.S. House. On May 24, ...
A version of this story ran in the July / August 2024 issue. Republican state Representative Bryan Hughes’ bid to oust House Speaker Joe Straus back in 2012 was hampered by a glaring flaw. He was a ...
The Observer brings you notes from across Texas.
On a sunny mid-July evening, dozens packed into a community center in Memorial, one of west Houston’s cushier neighborhoods, to meet state Representative James Talarico, the Austin Democrat whose ...
On August 3, 2009, Texan televangelist Kenneth Copeland gave an impassioned sermon to a crowd of more than 9,000 at the Southwest Believers Convention in Fort Worth amid one of the worst economic ...
Following the lead of the Texas National Guard, the Kinney County Sheriff’s Office is buying pepper ball and tear gas launcher rifles to potentially use against migrants to prevent them from crossing ...
Editor’s Note: This article is co-published with ProPublica as part of an initiative to report on state and federal efforts to restrict local control. No state has taken over as many local public ...
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