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Taxpayers Fund Post-‘Roe’ Business Boom for Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers in Texas
Today, there’s big money to be made in the business of using unpaid, often church-sourced, volunteers to provide minimal ...
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Announcing the Texas Observer’s Editor-in-Chief
A strong and clear editorial vision, committed to the values we’ve upheld at the Texas Observer for 70 years, is critical to ...
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‘They Bought a Legislature’: What the GOP’s Gains Mean for Vouchers in Texas
Republicans nearly ran the table in state House races, shoring up Governor Abbott’s school voucher majority for the 2025 ...
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Pride and Prejudice in Princeton, Texas
A school board vote to cancel a summer Pride event represented one of the first government-sponsored cancellations of the ...
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She Fled Mexico as a Child. Now, She Teaches Migrant Kids in Tamaulipas.
A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. Under various and ever-shifting policies curtailing access ...
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The Deep Roots of Deportation
Editor’s Note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative in partnership with palabra. An unrelenting sun ...
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A Texas Miracle: The Observer is turning 70
This year, Texas’ original champion of independent journalism is 70 years old. Our inaugural issue was published on December ...