The Corpus Christi Water Crisis Isn’t Exceptional. It’s Early.
Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:52:35 +0000
For years, climate scientists have projected that South Texas would grow hotter and drier—that drought cycles would lengthen, that rainfall would become less reliable, and that the water systems built for a wetter century would eventually face conditions they were never designed to absorb. In Corpus Christi, that projection has become a daily operational reality. […]
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Foster Care Repeats Rejection for LGBTQ+ Texans
Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:51:38 +0000
When a teenager in Texas is pushed out of their home because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, foster care is supposed to help. It is meant to offer safety, stability, healing, and the chance to begin again. But for many LGBTQ+ youth, rejection does not end when the state steps in. It simply […]
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‘Proudly Claiming Our Tears’: Fathers Stand Together for Their Trans and Nonbinary Kids
Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:52:45 +0000
Over the course of filming two documentaries about the fathers of transgender and nonbinary children, Luchina Fisher has watched these families’ rights rapidly erode. “In [2023], we thought things were bad: we were having conversations around safety for our children,” she told the Texas Observer. “This is another level that we haven’t ever seen before.” […]
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East Texas Hit Hard by Gun-Related Suicides
Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:41:09 +0000
Editor’s Note: This story was produced by Public Health Watch and is republished here with permission. Throughout their two decades together, Kay and Brian raised their family and shared the ups and downs of daily life. She was an educator with a gift for math and coding; he was a prankster who loved to make […]
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Texas Saw a $50 Billion Future in Clean Energy. Then the Political Winds Shifted.
Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:45:00 +0000
Editor’s Note: This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Texas Observer. On an unseasonably warm January day, Duff Hallman’s goats and sheep wandered unhurried through the rocky hills of his ranch 30 miles south of San Angelo, unbothered by the long shadows that swept over the ground. The shadows fell from wind […]
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Time Comes for Castroville
Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:36:57 +0000
The town of Castroville lies west of San Antonio, beyond rolling farmland, bounded on three sides by a cypress-shaded horseshoe of the Medina River—dry now from long drought—and on the fourth by a brushy escarpment. A single hill advances into the city, crowned with a cross, sheltering the regional park on one side and the […]
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Dolores Huerta Feared Speaking About Her Abuse for Years. The Farmworkers She Advocates for Understand.
Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:14:44 +0000
Editor’s Note: This story was originally reported by Candice Norwood of The 19th and is republished with permission. Read more of her reporting here on gender, politics, and policy. Every survivor of sexual assault is forced to make a calculation: What are the repercussions if they speak out? Dolores Huerta felt the weight of the […]
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Defending the Most Vulnerable in San Marcos
Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:11:28 +0000
Juan Miguel Arredondo believes there’s a spirit of solidarity in San Marcos that sets his Central Texas college town apart, even as right-wing culture warriors seek to force a wedge between neighbors. “When there’s a crisis, Superman isn’t coming,” Arredondo, 34, told the Texas Observer during a phone interview late last year. “We have to […]
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Mythbusting Texas’ Reactionary Past
Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:42:29 +0000
The function of foundational myths is to fence off the present from ideas, counter-histories, and traditions from below that could cut through the barbed wire and reopen a sense of political possibility. As a great bard—Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine—once put it: “Who controls the present now controls the past, who […]
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Climate Activists Confront Iran War Profiteering at Big Oil Confab in Houston
Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:49:50 +0000
Inside the luxe conference venue at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on Monday, oil and gas industry elites wrung their collective hands about the global oil price shock set off by the Iran war. Outside, hundreds of colorfully dressed climate justice activists from across the Gulf South marched and demonstrated to call […]
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