A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. Under various and ever-shifting policies curtailing access ...

Editor’s Note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative in partnership with palabra. An unrelenting sun ...

A school board vote to cancel a summer Pride event represented one of the first government-sponsored cancellations of the ...

Since the Kingdom of Life Academy moved from its location at the Colonial Hills Baptist Church in Tyler to its own 23-acre ...

We're going to defend our immigrant communities from Trump's attacks, while we hold Trump and people like Elon Musk ...

All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: ...

All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: On ...

All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: ...

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 ...

This year, Texas’ original champion of independent journalism is 70 years old. Our inaugural issue was published on December ...

At the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston’s Third Ward, the writing appeared to be already on the wall for Propositions A and B—a pair of school bonds totaling $4.4 billion for the ...