A strong and clear editorial vision, committed to the values we’ve upheld at the Texas Observer for 70 years, is critical to ...

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

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

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Since the Kingdom of Life Academy moved from its location at the Colonial Hills Baptist Church in Tyler to its own 23-acre space in town, they’ve struggled to get enough students to keep afloat ...

In Texas and across the country, immigrants and their advocates are now bracing for a second Donald Trump term, which the president-elect has promised would include the nation’s “largest ...

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 ...

There is a room with three doors. Each bears a label: “Latino Vote,” “Purpling Suburbs,” and “Big City Turnout.” This November, Texas Democrats opened these three doors, and behind all ...

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

After coming up empty in a well-funded, highly ambitious, and not-slightly hubristic effort to flip the Texas House in the last presidential election cycle, Democrats set their sights lower this ...

A massive investment by a conservative PAC has paid off in key down-ballot judicial races, most critically in the Democratic stronghold of Harris County. The PAC received more than $18 million ...