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The recent redistricting of county commissioners court precincts has galvanized progressive organizers heading into 2026.

She's a death row survivor, but she doesn't think she's really any different from her friends who are still set to die.

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The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death ...

Yale College and is an editor and staff writer for the Yale Daily News. He's from a farm in the small town of Wills Point in Van Zandt County.

The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important ...

East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near the Louisiana line—all run by an operator who’s been cited for dozens of violations, and a worker’s death.

Between mid-October and early November, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a pair of agreements that will authorize some state ...

Paul Barrows spends his nights half expecting a late-night call from his son, who is prone to manic late-night walks that leave him lost and disoriented. Barrows’ son, who’s is his thirties and lives ...

At least a dozen Democratic members of Congress have been denied entry to federal immigration facilities this year when they showed up to conduct oversight as President Donald Trump has ramped up his ...

Just across the Texas border, in cities like Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo, criminal networks are strengthening their hold on drug routes despite increased enforcement efforts by the United States and ...