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From @by_jmiller: These changes have overhauled the electoral playing field in Texas for the 2026 midterms and could deliver the GOP as many as five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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GOP’s Trumped-up redrawing took a wrecking ball to congressional districts. Now comes the mad dash for seats.
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From the archives: A rogue surgeon’s long Texas career left behind damaged and dead people—and a cautionary tale of how far a wealthy physician can go before anyone stops him.
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The long Texas career of Dr. Eric Scheffey left behind damaged and dead people—and became a cautionary tale.
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Our top story: For three years, Luis Mendoza has periodically gone to the same construction site in downtown Ciudad Juárez to check on the progress of a 20-story tower that will serve as the home base of a vast state surveillance project. ...
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The 20-story Torre Centinela looming over Juárez is part of a much larger AI-powered network that won’t stop at the U.S.-Mexico divide.
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In our magazine, from @GusBova: Kendall Scudder bills himself as both a progressive firebrand and a self-sacrificing devotee of the party. Raised in rural northeast Texas by two moms, he was drawn early to politics by attacks on families like his.
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Kendall Scudder on Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg, disaster politics, and his state's economic success
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Earlier: A killer storm two decades past still teaches lessons about survival and resilience in a world where weather is getting more extreme.
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A killer storm two decades past still teaches lessons about survival and resilience in a world where weather is getting more extreme.
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In our magazine: I couldn’t help but think how these resources might have been used. How many of the region’s children could have been sent to college? How many medical bills could have been paid? How much infrastructure built? How many teachers hired?
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Fighting for immigrant justice is a Jewish religious and cultural obligation.
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Featured: I studied water. I studied rivers and tributaries and floodplains and watersheds. Hydrology was a main focus of my research. But theory is one thing, & seeing 100-year-old cypress trees laying flat on the ground, completely uprooted, is another.
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One photographer’s view of the July 4th Hill Country flood, the state’s deadliest in more than a century
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In books: Law is a tool, not an end in itself. Justice is the goal of all human rights undertakings—everything in “right relationship.” Right relationship is not status quo and does not appear on the scene without arduous struggle and social readjustment.
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A new memoir traces the evolution of a trailblazing civil rights group in Texas.
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From the archives: In the 1970s, military police raided queer spaces in San Antonio. One way the LGBTQ+ community responded? With drag protest ballet ... "The Fairies Fiasco."
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A drag protest ballet revolted against military police raiding queer spaces in the 1970s.
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From @by_jmiller: These changes have overhauled the electoral playing field in Texas for the 2026 midterms and could deliver the GOP as many as five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
texasobserver.org
GOP’s Trumped-up redrawing took a wrecking ball to congressional districts. Now comes the mad dash for seats.
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Congratulations to @stevanzetti and Tristan Lee (of @bellingcat) for winning the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, in the small newsroom category from @ONA, for a series of articles identifying online extremists. https://t.co/KtJmDOKB5V
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Last week, from @MichellePitcher: Efforts to limit police transparency by shielding some complaints from public view have failed multiple times during the 2025 legislative season—most recently in the form of House Bill 15.
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"We’re hopeful that it means it doesn’t come back again, and that we can preserve some level of transparency for all Texans."
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Featured story, from Special Correspondent @TumaTime: The GOP-backed “crack down” on abortion pills and those who provide them could potentially impact access in much of the country and serve as a blueprint for other states to adopt.
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House Bill 7 attacks one of the last remaining options for reproductive care in Texas and declares legal war on blue states.
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Heading out in a stolen church van, a ragtag crew of Katrina survivors flees a devastated New Orleans—chasing refuge, redemption, and a second chance in the Texas desert. Read this excerpt from the new novel ...
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So late in the season, this was likely a bad one, if it came this way...
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Previously, from @insideclimate News: The night of the fatal accident was not the first warning that McBride had a workplace safety problem.
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A 26-year-old employee at McBride Operating in Waskom was killed when a valve blew off a pump last year. Another worker had sued the company two years earlier after being injured on the job.
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... or online!
@CapitalBNews @TexasObserver If you can’t make it in person, be sure to check out our livestream below:
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Join us tonight in Houston ...
Tonight, join us, @CapitalBNews, and the @texasobserver as we discuss the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina and how communities are rising in the face of climate change and displacement. Where: Julia Ideson Building, Houston, TX When: Doors 6:30 PM | Program 7–9 PM 🔗 :
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From @LiseDigger: Twenty years ago, when the nation’s most deadly modern hurricane approached New Orleans, Eva Kinnard didn’t have a car or the money to leave her apartment on her own. She was still recovering from surgery.
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A killer storm two decades past still teaches lessons about survival and resilience in a world where weather is getting more extreme.
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@CapitalBNews @TexasObserver If you can’t make it in person, be sure to check out our livestream below:
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Tonight, join us, @CapitalBNews, and the @texasobserver as we discuss the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina and how communities are rising in the face of climate change and displacement. Where: Julia Ideson Building, Houston, TX When: Doors 6:30 PM | Program 7–9 PM 🔗 :
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mil gracias a @AristeguiOnline por destacar nuestra investigación en el @TexasObserver sobre la Plataforma Centinela, el sistema de vigilancia que el estado de Chihuahua está construyendo y ha ofrecido compartir con autoridades en EEUU y Texas https://t.co/tKe1DIKyjH
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La oferta del gobierno de Maru Campus a Estados Unidos incluye la creación de una base de datos biométricos de migrantes.
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