Donald Trump has officially endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, bucking his party’s mainstream donors and siding with the MAGA favorite in the May 26 Republican runoff. In a statement roughly the length of a Russian novel, Trump praised Paxton as an “America First Patriot,” a “MAGA Warrior,” and most importantly, “extremely […]
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Who Gets to Lead the Church? Women and LGBTQ+ Pastors Are Forcing an Answer.
For many Christian women, a woman’s role in the church’s ecosystem has long been fixed. But Beth Allison Barr, a historian and the wife of a pastor, felt compelled to challenge the prevailing narrative surrounding women in North American Christianity using history. This culminated in “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” in 2021, a book rebutting […]
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‘I Hate This.’ Texas Cracks Down on THC, Maddening Us All.
Texas is about to Thanos-snap a big chunk of what’s sitting on hemp shop shelves. Thanks to a rules shift taking effect on Tuesday, products that were legal yesterday are suddenly failing the test, sending retailers and THC fans into a tailspin. The Texas Department of State Health Services is now enforcing a stricter THC […]
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Don’t Call It ‘Self-Deportation.’ Moving Back to Mexico Felt Like Reclaiming My Life.
A breeze swept over me as I looked over Laguna del Carpintero in Tampico, Tamaulipas. Nearby, my three-year-old son Lucas and a local boy about the same age took turns rolling their miniature monster trucks down a blue playground slide. Lucas’ Hot Wheels rattled down first, then the other boy’s lime green truck. Off in […]
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At Least 15 LGBTQ+ Businesses Have Quietly Disappeared in Texas
EXCLUSIVE San Antonio’s Turner Hall was constructed more than a century ago as a gathering space to improve its community. Now home to a gay bar called the Bonham Exchange, the storied building survived the Civil War, both World Wars, the 1921 flood, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Today, like many queer spaces, it’s facing an […]
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‘Something’s Different’: LGBTQ+ Texans Are Organizing in Defense of Immigrants
It’s hard to ignore Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents when they come crashing into your neighborhood. It’s become the topic of conversation in Austin’s North Loop, Reilly, a 42-year-old transgender resident, told The Barbed Wire one February evening from a graffiti-covered picnic table in the grass behind Epoch, the neighborhood’s beloved 24-hour coffee shop. “I […]
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Texas Lawmakers Say They’re Demanding Major ICE Reforms Because ‘Families and Children Are Terrified’
EXCLUSIVE “Families and children are terrified” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents breaking into homes without warrants, Democratic state Rep. Josey Garcia, of San Antonio, told The Barbed Wire this week. That’s one of the reasons Garcia and 20 other Texas state representatives say they’ve signed a letter demanding that Congress enact serious agency reforms […]
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‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia Has Been Hospitalized, DHS Says. After Calling 16 Hospitals, Her Lawyers Say They Can’t Find Her.
A Columbia University protester who has been deemed a political prisoner by Texas Democrats who’ve called for her release from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center was hospitalized over the weekend due to a seizure, according to The Dallas Morning News. Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman, was taken to Prairieland Detention Center in […]
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‘F*cking Dumpster Fire’: What in the World Is Going on Between Colin Allred and James Talarico?
It all started when content creator Morgan Thompson posted online about the already-tense Democratic race for U.S. Senate in Texas. In a TikTok video, Thompson alleged that Senate candidate and state House Rep. James Talarico told her in a one-on-one conversation he signed up to run against a “mediocre black man,” not a “formidable, intelligent […]
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Hundreds of Kids, Including Infants, Are Still at the ICE Facility That Released Liam Ramos. Now There’s a Measles Outbreak.
Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who was pictured in a blue bunny-eared hat being taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, has been released from a Texas immigration facility. But the conditions at Dilley Immigration Processing Center near San Antonio — and the health of the hundreds of children, including infants, being detained there — […]