Heather Gate Center on Rural Innovation Broderick Johnson Pooja Salhotra State Rep. Eddie Morales, Jr. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez Christina Sanchez Perla Trevizo Don’t miss “One-on-One with Tim Alberta” on Thursday, Sept. 5. Tim Alberta, staff writer for The Atlantic, discusses his book on evangelicals in an age of extremism with moderator Sewell Chan.

Love a good comeback story? Well, here’s mine. After getting laid off from The LA Times, I return today as a business reporter. It’s temporary for now but it’s a second chance to write for my hometown newspaper. I’m back!

Some exciting news: We have made The Onion's historical front page archive, dating back to 1900, available and free for all. Explore history with us, starting with this day in 1932: theonion.com/front-page-arc…

Texas Tribune, ProPublica and FRONTLINE share Online Journalism Award and national Edward R. Murrow Award texastribune.org/2024/08/19/tex… via Texas Tribune

BIG NEWS: Governors Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) and Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) are the opening and closing speakers of this year’s Texas Tribune Festival. It’s not too late to buy tickets for our Sept. 5-7 event. (It's also my final week at the Tribune — help me celebrate my tenure!)

So I am editing now at Washington Post Opinions! If you want to pitch any ideas for essays or op-eds just email me at [email protected] or feel free to just say hi!

New Hobby School of Public Affairs Texas poll: Trump 49.5 (+4.9) Harris 44.6 Cruz 46.6 (+2.1) Allred 44.5 Same pollster had Trump leading Biden 49-40 in June. Trump’s lead among independents has shrunk from +24 to +2. Cruz is +4 among independents in the #txsen race, with 14% undecided.

We conducted a major survey on the state of civic life in America. The most jaw-dropping finding was the rapid decline in social connections among Americans without degrees. Nearly 1/4 have no close friends.

if this were the result, presidential margin would be smallest in decades and senate margin would be closer than 2018 #txlege #tx2024 #txsen

Donald Trump is up 5 pts in Texas over Kamala Harris — nearly half his advantage over Biden from a few weeks ago. Colin Allred is trailing Ted Cruz by 2 pts in latest poll. Jasper Scherer reports on first Texas poll since Biden dropped out. texastribune.org/2024/08/22/tru…

BREAKING: More than a dozen states, including Texas, have sued the Biden administration over a recent program providing undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens legal protections and a pathway to a green card. The suit was filed in the eastern district of Texas.

A month ago I pitched an article about what we know about elections and violence. Today it was the lead article in my favorite magazine of all time. newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…

New from Alejandro Serrano: Warrants detail the vote harvesting allegations that led to investigators from Ken Paxton's office to confiscate the phone of a Democratic candidate for a competitive Texas House seat and raid the phone of a prominent lege staffer. texastribune.org/2024/08/24/ken…

Today, ProPublica is launching an extraordinary new project on abysmal access to mental health in the US. Through the sustained lens of reporting, we’ll show why, whether you’re rich or poor, we’re in such a bad place. Why I Left the Network projects.propublica.org/why-i-left-the…

Texas Democrats, prominently featured at the DNC, are frustrated not to be getting national support from the party this year. texastribune.org/2024/08/24/tex…

To understand how the anti-trans agenda is reshaping *all* of our lives, 19thnews set out to examine how the laws and rhetoric behind it are impacting Americans. Today we launch that critical series. 19thnews.org/2024/08/the-to…

“Election experts point out that both federal and state law already required voter roll maintenance, and the governor’s framing of this routine process as a protection against illegal voting could be used to undermine trust in elections.”

This story is why I’m grateful for journalists like ⁦Berenice Garcia⁩ who focus on the valley: Ken Paxton’s vote harvesting investigation in South Texas renews questions over politiqueras texastribune.org/2024/08/28/ken…

The Ethics & Journalism Initiative @ NYU & Journalism Initiative is delighted to share that the submissions portal for the Peter F. Collier Awards for Ethics in Journalism is open. DEADLINE:  Monday, December 9, 2024 at 11:59pm PST. Get started here: ethicsandjournalism.org/collier-award/

The Texas Tribune is getting into local news, hoping to bring our experience building sustainable and meaningful news coverage to the city level. First up: Waco. Then Austin. texastribune.org/2024/09/05/tex…