To Lead Blue Backlash, Texas Dems Turn to Austin
I mean the headline of this article in three ways. On Tuesday night, Lone Star State Democrats ...View More
Why This South Texas District Is a Proving Ground for One of Democrats’ Biggest Questions
Editor’s Note: This article was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit n ...View More
Military Moms Fight for Safe Housing
Editor’s Note: This story was reported in partnership with POGO Investigates, the reporting division ...View More
Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our March/April 2026 Issue
Texas Observer reader, And so comes primary season. That time of year when Texas Democratic vo ...View More
A New Age for Houston Politics?
Among the youngest cohorts of voting age, there’s a running online joke that they “should’ve been” b ...View More
Calculating the Taxpayers’ Tab for Ken Paxton’s Extensive Travels
By the time Ken Paxton finally leaves behind the eighth floor of the Price Daniel Sr. State Office B ...View More
More Money than Greg
As of January, the Texas governor had about $105,000,000 sitting in his campaign account. That’s an ...View More
Sarah Eckhardt Wants to Return the Texas Comptroller to the Bob Bullock Era
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts is an idiosyncratic statewide office—a result of the state ...View More
The UT System’s New ‘Controversial Topics’ Policy Is About Policing Knowledge
In a recent classroom conversation, a student asked whether it was still “allowed” to talk about imm ...View More
Snow on Market Street
The year I turned 7 has blurred in my mind the way old photographs fade and fray at the edges. We ha ...View More
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