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Excited this story by Zach Despart Yuriko Schumacher Uriel J. García is being recognized for its service to the First Amendment by TX Managing Editors Association, Scripps Howard and Poynter! When Texas wouldn't give us answers about the wall, we found them anyway. apps.texastribune.org/features/2024/…

When TX started arresting migrants for trespassing in ‘21, many paid hefty bail to get out of jail. But instead of releasing them, Texas handed them over to ICE. I spent over a year investigating: One county has made over a $1 million by taking bail from deported migrants.

Here’s the surprising story we found regarding Texas COVID deaths. Hispanic Texans saw far more deaths that first summer. That tragic experience spurred more Hispanics to get vaccinated and their death rate fell dramatically. texastribune.org/2025/05/01/tex…

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New Texas megadonor Alex Fairly was on a path to be the next Tim Dunn. He started a PAC to threaten House Rs to stay in line. As he dug deeper into the GOP civil war, he realized he was going in the wrong direction and changed course. via Kate McGee Balagia texastribune.org/2025/05/08/ale…

A must-read: Alex Fairly was on a path to be Texas’ next Tim Dunn — a sharp-elbowed megadonor poised to spend big to push the state further right. Then he learned more about about Dunn’s tactics and had a change of heart. texastribune.org/2025/05/08/ale…

Alex Fairly has become one of the top wealthy conservative megadonors in Texas, often aligning behind hardline GOP candidates. But as he became entrenched in the Texas Republican political scene, he didn’t like what he saw. #txlege texastribune.org/2025/05/08/ale…

A 24yo Venezuelan man arrived in Houston last year to enter the US as a refugee after months of interviews and background checks, but was detained at Bush Airport because of his tattoos. Then in March, he was deported to El Salvador. Latest (gift link) ⬇️ houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

One of the worst things about the Texas Legislature is how members make regular citizens — whose input they ostensibly want — wait hours and hours, sometimes well past midnight, to testify before committees. Good read here by Alejandra Martinez ⬇️ texastribune.org/2025/05/09/tex…

The TX Senate passed an abortion pill bill with an unusual provision... a state judge cannot find the law unconstitutional and if they do, they could be sued for up to $100,000 “I’ve never seen anything like that in any statute of any kind, anywhere.” texastribune.org/2025/05/12/tex…

"Everyone's afraid that there’s going to come a point in time where you don’t know where one agency stops & the next begins," said the former ombudsman for the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for immigrant kids, about closer ties w/ U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement propublica.org/article/office…

Texas has a $24 billion budget surplus

NOW: The Texas House is, for the first time, hearing a bill to repeal the ban on homosexual conduct, on the books but unenforceable since Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 This bill has been proposed every session since the mid 80s, per author State Rep. Venton Jones texastribune.org/2025/05/15/tex…

Bit of color from deadline day in the House yesterday, as lawmakers churned through hundreds of bills and resigned yet hundreds more to the shredder: #txlege

I just feel like there has to be a better version of democracy than the one that forces people to take two days off of work to testify for two minutes about something that affects their lives so much that they'll take two days off of work to testify about it #txlege

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Status of Dan Patrick's 40 priority bills: 3 are effectively dead (SB 16, 19, 39) 3 are awaiting initial House passage (SB 15, 18, 35) 3 are awaiting final House passage (SB 7, 13, 30) All others have fully cleared the House (some in watered-down form) #txlege

new via Alejandra Martinez + Jayme Lozano Carver: Texas lawmakers appear to be on the brink of passing a sweeping plan to invest billions into the state’s water infrastructure and future water supply over the next 20 years, ending months of tense backdoor negotiations. texastribune.org/2025/05/27/tex…

Deadline Day greetings from the #txlege press corps! Kayla Guo Renzo Downey James Barragán 🌟 John C. Moritz Zach Despart Mary Elise Cosgray Hannah Norton

NEW: Of 238 men deported to the prison in #ElSalvador, DHS data shows: -130 are labeled as having no U.S. criminal histories aside from immigration violations; -32 had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.; - 6 of those were violent crimes. propublica.org/article/trump-…