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Texas Bookstores Are Writing Their Own Stories

Indie bookshops across the state are embracing change, to thrive and stay alive. But a lot depends on the upcoming holiday season.

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Texas Is Becoming a Bitcoin-Mining Capital. Can the Grid Handle It?

Despite the FTX crash, ERCOT continues to court the cryptocurrency industry.

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At Casa Juan Diego, Refugees Find An Outpost of Compassion

Since 1980, migrants fleeing poverty, violence, and natural disaster have come here for refuge from an intolerant world.

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Denton’s Trans Pride Fest is Here to Stay

After right-wing trolls unsuccessfully attempted to disrupt the first event, the inclusive and defiant festival's second round was a success.

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Talking is Golden

Stars Judith Ivey and Sheila McCarthy on matters worth discussing in Sarah Polley’s emotive feminist feature, Women Talking.

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Biden Is Still Separating Immigrant Kids From Their Families

Children and their guardians are still being cleaved apart in Texas—and elsewhere—under the new administration.

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Right Wing ‘Election Fraud’ Researcher A Convicted Bathroom Voyeur

The right's new "election expert"—Kevin Moncla— was once busted for illegally filming people in his home. Now he pushes the Big Lie.

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Are You OK? The Lives of Young Trans Texans

In Jesse Freidin's photos, viewers glimpse the bravery of transgender youth and the power of unconditional family support.

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Climate Activists Sit In At Department of Transportation Over Oil Exports

Deepwater terminals in the Gulf would fuel output and growth despite the Biden administration's promises of steep emissions cuts.

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Blue Havens in Red States

Political polarization gives the impression Americans are more divided than they really are. The reality is more nuanced.

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Heat Kills Hundreds In Texas Prisons

During the hottest part of the year, up to 13 percent of deaths at Texas prisons without air conditioning were due to extreme temperatures.

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Elon Musk’s Tesla Gigafactory Built on Wage Theft and Safety Violations, Texas Workers Allege

Two federal filings claim workers were not paid at all or were shorted on overtime pay and that a worker was provided with fake OSHA certificates while building the Travis County facility.

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Frank J. Robinson’s Ghost Haunts East Texas

This civil rights leader’s death led to probes by state and national agencies. But documents that might have proven he was murdered have vanished.

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Texas Butterfly Center Makes a Comeback After Right-Wing Attacks

The wildlife sanctuary’s conservation work has been overshadowed by political drama over its location on the border.

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Course Corrections: The Return of Prison Education

Federal grants are rebooting higher education behind bars, but the benefits aren't evenly distributed to all of the incarcerated.

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Beto’s Lost Year

“I don't know what my role or yours will be going forward,” said the Texas Dems’ political star, after $70 million bought a bracing defeat.

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Voters Reinforce Republican Stronghold on State Board of Education

“Critical Race Theory” boosts multiple new conservative voices onto the board, including a participant in January 6 pro-Trump rally.

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The Age of Abbott Continues Unfettered

Texas’ Republican governor easily swatted away his strongest Democratic challenger yet. Now, he’s liable to do whatever the hell he pleases.

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‘Red Wave’ Makes Modest Splash in South Texas

The GOP took just one of three Congressional seats from Brownsville to Laredo, and short-lived incumbent Mayra Flores has been sent packing.

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Lina Hidalgo Prevails Against Republican Offensive in Harris County

In the face of high-profile GOP push to claw back power in Texas’ largest county, Democrats expanded their power.

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Texas Oyster Fishing at a ‘Crossroads’

Citing low numbers, the Parks and Wildlife Commission has closed most of the state’s bays to commercial harvest.

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Months after Massacre, Uvalde County Turns Out for Greg Abbott

Uvaldeans voted resoundingly for the incumbent—who opposes even common sense gun control—over Democrat Beto O’Rourke by a 22-point margin

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Country Music Women Keep Raising Hell

Outspoken performers like Maren Morris and Kacey Musgraves continue a tradition of female Western artists who aren’t afraid to rock the boat.

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Antifascist Spies on East Texas Nazi Conference with Drone

A veteran's surveillance of the Aryan Freedom Network prompted a lawsuit filed by a notorious lawyer for the far right, Jason Lee Van Dyke.

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Records Shed Light on Abbott’s Secretive Border Wall Boondoggle

As Texas’ construction plans ramp up, records show the state has spent at least $220,000 on rural properties in Cameron and Val Verde Counties.

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