"You talk about the fact that while you may not be on SNAP benefits, everyone’s cost of #food is going to go up. You talk about the fact that they’re pulling this money away from those that are just trying to eat and that also impacts our #farmers—as we’re seeing record bankruptcies with farmers and ranchers."
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Everyone Knows Jasmine Crockett. Could That Be a Good Thing?
Her critics would prefer a lesser-known candidate who can concoct a bipartisan pitch. But the Dallas congresswoman believes she’s starting “on ...
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Earlier, from Francesca D'Annunzio: “All the evidence we have seen suggests that this had nothing to do with gang enforcement—no one was arrested on any charge remotely related to gang activity. It appears that DPS simply raided this house because the people throwing a party were Latinos from another country.”
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Prosecutors Drop Only Criminal Cases from Hays County Airbnb Raid
Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and led to multiple deportat...
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#BestOf2025: 34,000 employees work at VA outpatient and inpatient care sites across the state, and in the Central #Texas VA healthcare system 45% of #workers previously served in the military. Some told the Observer the system is at its limits.
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Veterans Who Work in Texas VA Health System: ‘The Dam’s Gonna Break’
Some vets say they’re being hurt as both workers and patients by Trump administration staffing decisions.
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Happy Holidays from all of us at the Texas Observer! Thank you for supporting our work in 2025, and we'll see you in the New Year! image
No matter how deep the darkness, sparks of light, beauty, and joy surround us—in, say, a baby’s smile, a lover’s touch, a refugee family’s safe arrival in a place of sanctuary, the first drops of rain on dry earth, a fragile monarch butterfly pausing its 3,000-mile migration to sip nectar from a blue mistflower.
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A Light the Darkness Cannot Extinguish
At the close of an awful year, a religion scholar offers reflections on resisting despair in dark times, for the religious and non-religious alike.
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From #cryptocurrency to adoption, from an immigrant's experience in school sports to a former death row inmate, here are 10 of our best long-form stories of 2025:
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Our Best Longform Stories of 2025
Nonfiction that's meant to be started, finished, and leave you with something to show for it
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Earlier: Former Congressman and felon Steve Stockman, a Friendswood-area conservative who was convicted of 23 federal corruption charges in 2018, has declared himself rehabilitated and fit to run again for the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Ex-Con Congressman Attempts a Texas Comeback
Steve Stockman, the felonious GOP politician, wants to return to Washington with a bid for a newly gerrymandered Houston-area district.
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From @npub1ayp3...yw0l: Total membership in Texas #unions has been growing. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 603,000 Texans belonged to unions in 2024, up from closer to half a million a decade ago.
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At the Texas AFL-CIO, a Changing of the Guard in a Time of Growth
“No one has done more than Rick Levy for the modern-day labor movement in Texas.”
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