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Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our January/February 2026 Issue

https://www.texasobserver.org/editors-letter-january-february-2026/

Published: January 5, 2026 15:27

Texas Observer reader, Call me biased, but I do believe you’re holding a damn good magazine in your hands right now. Michelle Pitcher continues her ascent as one of the state’s best criminal justice reporters and narrative feature writers. Josephine Lee…

Our Most-Read Stories of 2025

https://www.texasobserver.org/most-read-stories-2025/

Published: December 29, 2025 13:00

Web traffic is a fickle thing, but online readership numbers do at least give us at the Observer a sense of what stories are making a splash with a bigger audience, and that’s useful information for us to have. So, for my benefit and perhaps yours, here’s…

Our Best Longform Stories of 2025

https://www.texasobserver.org/best-longform-stories-2025/

Published: December 22, 2025 13:00

In case you find yourself this holiday season with a little extra reading time, or maybe time to return to a story you left open in a tab some many months ago, here are 10 of the best Observer longform stories from 2025 (in chronological order). May they…

A Light the Darkness Cannot Extinguish

https://www.texasobserver.org/a-light-the-darkness-cannot-extinguish/

Published: December 19, 2025 13:00

The editor of this publication wasn’t exaggerating when he called 2025 “this frankly awful year”: Things are dark, and likely to get much darker.  Our politics nationally and here in Texas is now firmly in the grip of a narrow, petty tribalism that feeds…

At the Texas AFL-CIO, a Changing of the Guard in a Time of Growth

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-afl-cio-changing-of-the-guard/

Published: December 18, 2025 13:45

For labor organizing, Texas was long dismissed as a forlorn place. “Right-to-work” laws restrict organizing here, most public-sector workers can’t collectively bargain or strike, and local governments are broadly banned from passing their own worker rights…

Hereditary

https://www.texasobserver.org/hereditary-poem-november-december-2025/

Published: December 18, 2025 13:00

The train tracks leading to my grandma’s house always reminded me of a spine. Curved & ancient, a body of splintered wood & metal hinges groaned when the train was coming. & my mom once told me that the train tracks split the town in two. Everything here…

Under Operation Lone Star, Texas State Police More than Doubled Their Drone Fleet

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-drone-fleet-doubled-in-size/

Published: December 17, 2025 15:37

Texas Republicans have been wary of unmanned aerial vehicles, with some even backing proposed laws to allow the citizenry to gun down invasive airborne drones. Now, thanks to years of Operation Lone Star, Governor Abbott’s multi-billion dollar border…

Everyone Knows Jasmine Crockett. Could That Be a Good Thing?

https://www.texasobserver.org/jasmine-crockett-interview-senate-december/

Published: December 16, 2025 15:39

Last Monday, just hours before the candidate filing deadline, Dallas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett made it official: The high-profile political flamethrower is running for the U.S. Senate. The move was not a surprising one, but it did finally…

Mirando hacia el futuro: Los combustibles fĂłsiles en el Valle del RĂ­o Grande

https://www.texasobserver.org/el-futuro-los-combustibles-fosiles-el-valle-del-rio-grande/

Published: December 15, 2025 14:53

Nota del editor: esta serie fue apoyada por la Beca de Periodismo de Investigación de la Sociedad Ida B. Wells y el Centro Pulitzer. (Read in English here.) Para la industria del petróleo y el gas de la Costa del Golfo, la miniregión alrededor de la Laguna…

Peering Into the Rio Grande Valley’s Fossil Fuel Future

https://www.texasobserver.org/the-valley-fossil-fuel-future-freeport-louisiana/

Published: December 15, 2025 14:53

Editor’s Note: This is part one of what will be a two-part series supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Ida B. Wells Society Investigative Reporting Fellowship. (Leer en español aquí.) For the Gulf Coast oil and gas industry, the mini-region around the…