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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.

Following a transphobic incident earlier this year, community members gathered to "protect trans joy." On a stone slab by the cold waters of Austin’s Barton Springs, transgender Texans celebrate ...

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 ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2025 issue. The image that graces the cover of historian Ashley Farmer’s new biography of Pan-African activist Audley “Queen Mother” Moore is no ...

The announcement on the Your Texas Benefits app reads: “SNAP benefits for November will not be issued if the federal government shutdown continues past October 27.” I logged in to see a mere $16 left ...