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Abbott’s Border Splurge

There is now a powerful, well-heeled constituency that has built up around Operation Lone Star.

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From Bullion to Bitcoin: Crypto Reserve Is Latest Fiscal Folly in Texas

Why?

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Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our March/April 2025 Issue

A note from the Editor-in-Chief

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Local and State Police Are Joining Trump’s ‘Deportation Force’

Texas law enforcement agencies and others around the nation are reviving a long-dead "task force" program that led to racial profiling in the past.

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Congressmen Demand Investigation of ICE Prosecutor Running Racist X Account

Following the Observer’s reporting, three U.S. House members have demanded accountability, while James Rodden still appeared on an ICE court schedule this week.

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‘Till They Have to Roll Me Off the Floor’

“When you poll this country, America loves Dreamers. … I’ll keep working to get this done till they have to roll me off the floor.”

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Did Mike Miles’ Former Charter School Network Fail to Provide Required Classes?

A Third Future Schools-Texas elementary school in Midland has been accused of neglecting social studies and physical education.

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Costly New Bail Bills Would Needlessly Jail More People

Texas politicians are wasting your money to punish the working class.

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Poetry Prompts for Detained Children

Write about the untouchable. Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom...

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Will Texas Secure Its Water Future?

Senator Charles Perry outlines an expansive vision of where Texans will get their H₂O in the coming decades.

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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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‘Asylum as We Know It’: An Immigration Historian on Trump, Refuge, and Exclusion

After World War II, "People understood that if they had allowed more immigrants into the United States, many of them wouldn't have been killed in Europe."

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Inside Fort Worth’s Narcotic Farm Experiment

Rehab on the Range tells the story of Texas’ role in one of the largest federal forays into drug treatment.

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Speaker Burrows Remodels Texas House with All-Republican Chairs

The new leader of the lower chamber finally announced committee assignments, formalizing a new order in the lower chamber.

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‘It’s Demoralizing’: Trump’s Climate Funding Freeze Has Left Tribes and Community Groups in Limbo

Despite court orders to release federal grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don't have access to contractually obligated money.

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Molly Ivins on School Vouchers (1997)

Another bad idea whose time has come in the Texas Legislature is upon us. It's time to revive my old proposal that Texas be made into a national laboratory for bad government. Having a bad idea in your state? Come to Texas and see how it works out in practice.

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Trans Texans Are Under Attack (Again), but Advocates Aren’t Giving In

With another legislative session that could pile on even more anti-trans policies, LBGTQ+ groups grapple with how to protect their communities.

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Remembering Boca Chica Beach—Before Elon Musk Came to Town

Destruction isn't always something physical, but also something done to memory.

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When a Death Penalty ‘Volunteer’ Changes His Mind

Richard Tabler is scheduled to be executed February 13, making him the second person set to be killed by the state in 2025.

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New DEA Chief’s Background Includes Surveillance Tech and Border Misinformation

Derek Maltz formerly worked at PenLink, a Nebraska-based tech firm that has sold software that can track phone locations without a warrant to agencies like ICE and Texas DPS.

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Counting Hate: At Least 61 Anti-LGBTQ+ Incidents in Texas Last Year

The LGBTQ+ advocacy organization GLAAD, which tracks incidents, warned that threats against the queer community are likely to worsen under the Trump administration.

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The ‘Texas Three-Step’: Defund, Demonize, and Privatize Public Schools

Vouchers become subsidies for families who had already decided to pay for private school, at the expense of public schools that must serve all students.

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Who Really Benefits from School Vouchers?

I do not pretend to know the motivation of Jeff Yass. But I do know that Mr. Yass is not a Texan, and I also know that Texas is not for sale.

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Abbott’s Familiar Priorities Include Property Taxes, Vouchers, Cracking Down on Bail

In his biennial address, the governor declared seven emergency items.

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ICE Agents in Churches ‘Does Not Bode Well for the Future of Religion’ in America

“They’re de facto endorsing government interference with the church—the very government interference with the church that they've complained about in the past.”

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