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Texas Dem quorum-breakers are seeking to protect voter rights nationwide, but they’re likely engaged in little more than a ...

A Fort Worth modern art exhibition and a new experimental film are part of a renaissance of work about an influential ...

Texas writer and director Katherine Craft's Audible comedy depicts a musician's tumultuous return to Plano as she adjusts to ...

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement rolls out necessary training, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office joins a growing ...

José Skinner’s fast-paced satire delivers sharp insights gleaned from years lived in Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley.

A sharp-eyed retiree uncovered evidence of judicial misconduct by the chief judge of Houston’s busy bankruptcy court. The ...

From Houston to the Hill Country, we Texans keep doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.

Longtime advocate Jorge Antonio Renaud lyricizes the grit of prison life in his first published collection of poems, The ...

A redistricting expert discusses Tom Delay, ‘dummymanders,’ and the long history of racial gerrymandering in the state.

Indigenous Affairs Labeled ‘Hispanic’ Fort Clark was founded to hunt the Indigenous peoples of South Texas. Lipan Apaches are challenging the myth that their tribe was wiped out.