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Investigating Texas Since 1954
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Inside the Rift Between Texas Dems and a Soros-Backed PAC
https://www.texasobserver.org/inside-rift-texas-democrats-soros-backed-pac/
Published: October 8, 2025 15:06
On a sunny mid-July evening, dozens packed into a community center in Memorial, one of west Houstonâs cushier neighborhoods, to meet state Representative James Talarico, the Austin Democrat whose reedy shoulders presently bear the weight of many TexasâŠ
How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-bathroom-bill-weaponizes-transphobia/
Published: October 2, 2025 17:37
On September 22, Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8, Texasâ new âbathroom bill,â into law, marking another escalation in the Republican war on the rights of trans people. What may be less evident at first glance is how the law also represents anâŠ
Party Discipline
https://www.texasobserver.org/greg-abbott-free-speech-charlie-kirk-universities/
Published: September 29, 2025 17:23
In response to last springâs student protests against Israelâs war on Gaza that roiled college campuses across the country, including in Texas, the stateâs Republican Legislature passed a law this spring placing certain conditions on âexpressiveâŠ
Texas History Offers Warnings amid Rash of Faculty Firings
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-faculty-firings-tom-alter/
Published: September 23, 2025 13:30
Every day that classes are held at the University of Texas at Austin, a procession of students enter Homer Rainey Hall, which houses the Department of French and Italian. How many of them know who Rainey was? He is certainly not a saint in the pantheon ofâŠ
A Wave of School District Takeovers Could Be Coming. Some Past Interventions Ended with More Failing Schools.
https://www.texasobserver.org/state-school-district-takeovers-results/
Published: September 19, 2025 12:15
Recently released state school ratings reveal that five Texas school districts are at risk of a takeover by the Texas Education Agency (TEA)âthe most since a 2017 state law expanded the stateâs takeover powers. The new ratings cover the 2022-23 schoolâŠ
News Orgs Fight to Unseal Records in the Paxtonsâ Divorce Case
https://www.texasobserver.org/news-orgs-unseal-paxtons-divorce-case/
Published: September 17, 2025 20:49
This article was first co-published by The Texas Newsroom and ProPublica. A group of state and national media organizations, including The Texas Newsroom, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, are arguing in court that records in Texas Attorney General KenâŠ
How Texas Localities Have (and Havenât) Spent Settlement Funds to Fight the Opioid Crisis
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-localities-opioid-settlement-dollars/
Published: September 17, 2025 12:16
In the coming years, Texas is set to receive billions of dollars to address the ongoing opioid crisis that has taken the lives of more than 10,000 Texans between 2020 and 2023, per state data. Already, the state has allocated over $100 million in funds toâŠ
Texas Legislature Passes âBounty Hunterâ Ban on Abortion Pills
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-bounty-hunter-ban-abortion-pills/
Published: September 4, 2025 16:09
On Wednesday evening, the Texas Senate approved an extreme bill that, pending the governorâs signature, will empower citizens to sue anyone who âmanufactures, distributes, mails, transports, delivers, prescribes, or providesâ abortion pills to Texans forâŠ
đ¶Itâs His Party and HeâllâŠđ¶
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-democrats-kendall-scudder-the-interview/
Published: September 3, 2025 15:59
Every time Texas Democrats have a bad election (read: every two years), blame reasonably finds its way to a person whose title suggests quite a lot of culpabilityâthe chair of something called the Texas Democratic Party. In reality, this person has littleâŠ
New Texas Maps Start Game of Political Musical Chairs
https://www.texasobserver.org/new-texas-maps-start-game-of-political-musical-chairs/
Published: August 29, 2025 17:31
After two weeks spent outside state linesâmarked by a surge of national media attention and, then, a struggle to keep their fight in the limelightâTexas House Democrats ended their quorum break as abruptly as a second special session began. Within a fewâŠ
West Texas Congressmanâs âBig Beautifulâ Cuts Could Harm Rural Hospitals in His District
https://www.texasobserver.org/jodey-arrington-obbba-cuts-west-texas-rural-hospitals/
Published: August 27, 2025 14:59
Since it was signed into law on July 4, West Texas Republican Congressman Jodey Arrington has been broadly praised by allies for his stewardship of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson called Arrington, whoâŠ