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  • (ILLUSTRATION/VICTOR JUHASZ)

    Trump’s Texas tycoons

    Originally published: Texas Observer on January 13, 2025 by Justin Miller (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2025)

    Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.

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    The booksellers’ revolt

    Originally published: Texas Observer on March 11, 2024 by Matthew Patin (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2024)

    The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on “explicitness” before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn’t comply.

  • COURTESY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/SUNNY SONE

    ‘it’s the South’: Harris County sends 15 times more Black men to death row than white

    Originally published: Texas Observer on February 22, 2024 by Michelle Pitcher (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Feb 26, 2024)

    Texas’ largest county remains the state’s deadliest when it comes to capital murder convictions, a new report says.

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    The Cancer Factory

    Originally published: Texas Observer on February 7, 2024 by Lise Olsen (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2024)

    Too many U.S. workers still suffer and die from exposure to well-known toxic substances, a Texas investigative reporter’s new book says.

  • A CONFEDERATE MONUMENT OVERLOOKS THE CITY OF BONHAM, TEXAS. DREANNA L. BELDEN/UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS LIBRARIES THE PORTAL TO TEXAS HISTORY

    Jim Crow still lingers in Bonham, civil rights lawyers say

    Originally published: Texas Observer on February 7, 2024 by Josephine Lee (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Feb 09, 2024)

    Civil rights complaint alleges biracial child faced two years of racially motivated attacks.

  • A group of migrants seeking U.S. asylum walk down a road beside the Rio Grande River to turn themselves in to the Border Patrol.

    Abbot’s border standoff fueled by a climate crisis he helped to create

    Originally published: Texas Observer on January 31, 2024 by Greg Harman (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Feb 06, 2024)

    Record levels of forced migration are tied to an environmental collapse that Republicans worsened on behalf of the fossil fuel industry.

  • AFTER ABORTION BAN, TEXAS TEEN BIRTH RATE RISES

    After abortion ban, Texas teen birth rate rises

    Originally published: Texas Observer on January 30, 2024 by Lise Olsen (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Feb 05, 2024)

    The increase reverses a 15-year trend. And unwanted pregnancies will rise, researchers predict.

  • BORDER AND IMMIGRATION

    Texas is challenging 150 years of immigration law

    Originally published: Texas Observer on December 14, 2023 by Gus Bova (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Dec 16, 2023)

    Senate Bill 4 could be the vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to finally unleash Lone Star Republicans on the world’s huddled masses.

  • COMMUNITY FRIDGES FIGHT HUNGER AND CLIMATE CHANGE

    Community fridges fight hunger and climate change

    Originally published: Texas Observer on October 27, 2023 by Max Graham (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Nov 02, 2023)

    These dropoff sites for free food appeared across the U.S. during the pandemic, reducing waste and methane emissions in the process.

  • FOCAL FOTO/FLICKR

    I am a trans Texan

    Originally published: Texas Observer on March 16, 2023 by April Ortiz (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Mar 20, 2023)

    A state resident ties the current gender panic to fascist politics through the lens of their own experience.

  • THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS DRAG SHOWS

    The war on Christmas drag shows

    Originally published: Texas Observer on December 21, 2022 by Steven Monacelli (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Dec 29, 2022)

    GOP endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ “groomer” rhetoric inspired armed fascist groups to harass queer events, spurring a diverse, celebratory community response.

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    Are you ok? The lives of young trans Texans

    Originally published: Texas Observer on November 18, 2022 by Kit O'Connell (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Nov 21, 2022)

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

  • Hundreds listen to speakers at the Unheard Voices March & Rally in honor of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on July 10, 2022. Photo by Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Texas Observer

    Uvalde Vive

    Originally published: Texas Observer on August 29, 2022 by Gus Bova (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Sep 07, 2022)

    In tragedy’s wake, a fiery movement for justice emerges in a South Texas town that’s known an uprising before.

  • DYLAN BADDOUR

    Mexican drought spurs a South Texas water crisis

    Originally published: Texas Observer on August 15, 2022 by Dylan Baddour (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Aug 19, 2022)

    Reservoirs in the Rio Grande Valley are running dry—sparking emergency water conservation measures.

  • THERE ARE ‘NO REAL CONSEQUENCES’ FOR TOXIC EMISSIONS EVENTS

    There are ‘no real consequences’ for toxic emissions events

    Originally published: Texas Observer on August 1, 2022 by Savanna Strott (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Aug 16, 2022)

    In some cases, these “chemical releases” aren’t illegal. In others, state regulators give polluters the benefit of the doubt.

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    Next on the GOP’s list: starving queer kids

    Originally published: Texas Observer on August 1, 2022 by Nancy Goldstein (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Aug 02, 2022)

    Republican attorneys general, including Ken Paxton, have filed suit over a federal school lunch program that prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ+ children.

  • ‘THE MEXICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN TEXAS’ TAKES A DEEP LOOK AT OUR SORDID STATE HISTORY

    ‘The Mexican American Experience in Texas’ takes a deep look at our sordid State history

    Originally published: Texas Observer on February 11, 2022 by Martha Menchaca (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Feb 15, 2022)

    Martha Menchaca’s new book examines events that have shaped the lives of so many in the Lone Star State.

  • 'Abortion access for all,' sign.

    Texas’ abortion ban is having a ‘domino effect’ on clinics across the U.S.

    Originally published: Texas Observer on November 18, 2021 by Mary Tuma (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Nov 24, 2021)

    “We are seeing massive ripple effects across the country for other states taking on displaced patients.”

  • Prison fence

    Invisible Scars

    Originally published: Texas Observer on November 10, 2021 by Jennifer Toon (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2021)

    For women inside prison, the fight for survival is less physical than psychological.

  • SpaceX

    The Final Frontera

    Originally published: Texas Observer on August 31, 2021 by Gus Bravo (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted Sep 13, 2021)

    lon Musk wants to go to Mars. Money, regulations, and public beaches are no object.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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