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A nonprofit progressive investigative outlet covering Texas since 1954. 🤠Learn more about us: https://t.co/XqzTCgxpXA
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Are you interested in covering politics in the Lone Star State? The Texas Observer is hiring an intern to help us cover the 2026 elections! Apply here:
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We’re a nonprofit with a strong public service mission; we seek to expose injustice and to produce the kind of impact journalism that makes a difference.
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Look for us on Saturday at Zine Fest Houston! Come chat with us and check out our print magazine: https://t.co/t4UpJj2Iq4
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Last week: " Whenever I see one, I think: fashion show. Something from Chanel. A bit of art deco. That black and white aesthetic."
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Whenever I see one, I think: fashion show. Something from Chanel. A bit of art deco. That black and white aesthetic.
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Come work for us!
Are you interested in covering politics in the Lone Star State? The Texas Observer is hiring an intern to help us cover the 2026 elections! Apply here:
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Last week: “Are we rushing to do this? Is this going to be properly considered? How do we know if we’ve selected the right partner or if we’re just selling off our schools?”
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Texas' largest school district may even convert its renowned performing arts institution under a program that benefitted the state-appointed superintendent in his previous career.
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Featured story: Between mid-October and early November, the Texas Department of Public Safety and ICE signed a pair of agreements that will authorize some state police to effectively operate as ICE agents.
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The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.
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From @CandiceBernd in our magazine: A Texas Observer analysis found since 2021, at least 60 cryptomines have been developed or are under construction in at least 33 counties statewide. Experts worry our grid, and water supply, can't handle the load.
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State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.
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From 2024: “Pogue takes photographs that are open-eyed and unblinking views of what many would rather not see.”
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Pogue has spent his career photographing fights for social justice. Along the way, he captured the history of the Observer, too.
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Previously: When Kendrick Sampson eventually launched BLD PWR, he was looking to merge activism and education with pop culture, inspiring others to fight for a cause while being creative—and having a good time.
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In Houston, actor Kendrick Sampson seeks to make a party out of political engagement.
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From Alexandra Edwards: Here's the simple, four-step plan extremists can follow to dismantle vital university programs, attack diversity, and leave workers afraid for their safety.
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Texas Christian University handed its power to the people working hardest to dismantle learning itself.
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Last week, from @josephineklee: Each year, 1000s of students apply for a seat at one of the top performing magnet high schools in Houston. But that opportunity could end under a proposal to turn 7 top high schools into private partnerships.
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Texas' largest school district may even convert its renowned performing arts institution under a program that benefitted the state-appointed superintendent in his previous career.
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Featured: As the workers approach the small collection of makeshift shelters along the train tracks that cut through the northern Mexico industrial hub of Ciudad Juárez, the people who gather in this place to use drugs prepare for their arrival. ...
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Growing security deployments pose unique challenges for harm reduction groups.
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In books: Born in 1897 to a mother from a free Black community and a father born into slavery, Audley “Queen Mother” Moore bore witness to the dying breaths of Reconstruction in the South. Then she became a vital part of the Black liberation movement.
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A UT-Austin historian tells the under-told story of Audley Moore, “one of the most important activists and theorists of the twentieth century.”
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In our magazine: Visit the 2025 Texas Book Festival with the Observer, and discover some of the most interesting, innovative and thought-provoking new books from Lone Star authors ...
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At the 2025 Texas Book Festival, authors bring new insights to complex stories in nonfiction.
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"U.S. citizens get subjected to these kind of horrific and brutal traffic stops and rights violations—and even children can be subjected to this kind of enforcement.” From @FrancescaDnunz: The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS.
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The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.
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Audley Moore, a civil rights leader and Black nationalist, adopted the name Queen Mother in the 1960s as a symbol of both her matriarchal presence in Black organizing spaces ... But today she''s far less well-known than her contemporaries.
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A UT-Austin historian tells the under-told story of Audley Moore, “one of the most important activists and theorists of the twentieth century.”
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Yesterday, from @josephineklee: Institutions like Houston's storied public school, the High School for the Performing & Visual Arts, might no longer be open to everyone under a new plan for Houston magnet schools which has education advocates up in arms. https://t.co/Pf2Unqd5si
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Texas' largest school district may even convert its renowned performing arts institution under a program that benefitted the state-appointed superintendent in his previous career.
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From @josephineklee: "From Texas to Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, the film reveals how librarians across the country have become victims of a crisis manufactured by national organizations bent on infiltrating and disrupting local school boards."
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A new documentary shows us our local guardians of intellectual freedom in battle.
Austin TX! We open this Friday (11/07) at @drafthouse South Lamar & tickets are on sale now! Join the Freedom to Read movement & be inspired as THE LIBRARIANS “reminds us how we got here and reveals, perhaps, how we can get out.” - @texasobserver Get tix: https://t.co/L7PqXk3dbQ
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I’ll be out there with @TXFreedomRead and @AuthorsABB raising awareness of those political attacks on books and recruiting book lovers to help fight back. Come see us!
This weekend, the Texas Book Festival, which will gather some 250 authors in a bibliophilic tent city out front of the state Capitol, ironically the launching pad of myriad political attacks on supposedly intolerable tomes and sinful librarians.
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New from Sharman Apt Russell: "I want to slow down, bend down, look, and really see. Humans have been doing this for millenia: matching shapes on the ground to meaning and story."
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Whenever I see one, I think: fashion show. Something from Chanel. A bit of art deco. That black and white aesthetic.
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Our top story: “The decision of these Texas agencies to enter into such agreements will lead to an erosion of safety … in addition to increases in racial profiling and targeting of immigrants, which are symptoms of this... cruel mass deportation agenda.” https://t.co/2nGgEBXSWo
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The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.
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