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Brownsville Elected Officials Are Doing PR for Embattled LNG …
Dec 19, 2024 · Local elected officials in the border city of Brownsville are receiving talking points and media strategy from the company developing Rio Grande LNG—the Central Park-sized liquefied natural gas ...
January/February 2025 - The Texas Observer
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Booked Up in 2024: What to Read from a Strong Year in Texas …
Dec 30, 2024 · FICTION . The Young of Other Animals by Chris Cander (Amazon).This gifted Houston novelist’s fictionalized account of a violent attack that shaped her own life is a compelling must-read.; After ...
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Dec 4, 2024 · Cyan Cruz/TheOfficial1984. Screenshot of Twitter/X profile of @TheOfficial1984 account . Cruz’s X account, TheOfficial1984, regularly posts antisemitic, pro-Hitler, and Holocaust denial content ...
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Jan 23, 2025 · Name Games: Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Move Flouts History, International Cooperation The president could just as logically rename the body of water the “Chinese Sea,” one historian argues.
In the Rio Grande Valley, the Red Wave Makes Landfall
Nov 6, 2024 · Four long years ago, much ado was made about the inroads made by then-President Donald Trump in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the four-county region of 1.4 million mostly Hispanic residents at the ...
How Texas’ War on Drug Users Fueled an Austin Overdose Disaster
Jan 7, 2025 · A tall, thin Houston native with a quick sense of humor, Benjamin Arzo Gordon had been living on the streets of Austin for years. A January 2024 photo in the Austin American-Statesman shows him ...
Texas Gave $1 Million in Expert Contracts to Defend Border Buoys …
Jan 9, 2025 · The Biden administration’s Department of Justice swiftly sued the state, arguing that installing the buoys in the Rio Grande was an illegal and unauthorized obstruction of a navigable waterway ...
How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas
Oct 21, 2024 · Francesca D'Annunzio is the Texas Observer's 2025 David McHam investigative reporting fellow.D’Annunzio has reported on topics ranging from deportations in the Dominican Republic, Christian ...