When Texas political leaders project images of themselves, it’s always the same. They’re in cowboy hats, boots, and toting a firearm. It’s how we like to imagine ourselves: the rugged cowboy, squinting into the distance, masculinely thinking about something. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is none of that. Instead, Cruz is our political reality: a smarmy, […]
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The Right Is Already Disrupting the Election. Let Us Help You Unpack the Chaos.
It’s old hat to say everything is bigger in Texas. True connoisseurs know that things in the Lone Star State are also often wilder and weirder than what you see on the evening news. Every two weeks, Steven Monacelli will explore the dystopic, desperate, and despicable realities of contemporary Texas and channel the sense of […]
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Willie Hutch, OutKast and the Lore Behind UGK’s ‘Int’l Players Anthem’
Texas hasn’t gotten its due as a major piece in the complex puzzle of American art. We’re here to rectify that. Every two weeks, H. Drew Blackburn will conduct a thoroughly scientific analysis of the 254 integral (one for every county) books, movies, tv shows, albums, podcasts, songs, and magazine articles — you name it […]
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Where Have You Gone, George W. Bush?
On Oct. 10, former President Barack Obama stepped back into the political fray. Former President Donald Trump had spent weeks dominating news cycles with lies about Haitian-born immigrants eating neighbors’ pets in Ohio, lies about Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris being a Marxist, and still more lies about the 2020 election being rigged against him. […]
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Think Abortion Isn’t on the Ballot in Texas? Think Again.
(Editor’s note: This is Part I of a series. Looking for a voting guide on abortion rights? Find key races and legislators’ voting history here.) Texans’ lives are on the line this election cycle. Josseli Barnica, of Houston, died of an infection in 2021, three days after doctors failed to provide care for her miscarriage, […]
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Locals Say SpaceX Is Polluting Sacred Land. This Project Aims to Preserve It.
Among the Carrizo Comecrudo people of Texas, it is said that the state’s rivers are like ancestors. As they flow toward the sea, they bring their abundance, their beauty, and their knowledge with them. In South Texas, the place where these rivers meet and empty into the Gulf of Mexico is a sacred life source […]
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Why Do Texans Hate California So Much?
When the dystopian thriller, “Civil War,” came out earlier this year, there were a lot of skeptics who didn’t buy the premise. Let me clarify. People weren’t dubious of the idea that the U.S. might be ripped apart (ok, ripped apart again) in a violent struggle. It was the fact that Texas and California were […]
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The Racist Trump Rally Comic Is Even Worse Than You Think
Guess people were right, Californians really are ruining Texas. Comedian and recent Austin transplant Tony Hinchcliffe’s stupid, racist attempt at “jokes” on Sunday at a rally for former President Trump may have freshly alienated some entirely new voters ahead of next week’s election. At the rally in Madison Square Garden in New York, Hinchcliffe opened […]
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Look at These F*ckin’ Texas Houses (Celebrity Edition)
In 2020, Joe Rogan’s arrival in Austin made a splash when his purchase of a $14.4 million lakefront mansion became one of the most expensive homes sold in the area. He wasn’t the first famous Californian to relocate to the Lone Star State, but it feels right to blame him for what followed: an epidemic […]
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‘I See You, and I Am With You.’ Texas Women Needed That Harris Rally.
In Texas, the past few years for women have been terrifying. Abortion bans became real. Exceptions turned out to be rare. Some have nearly died during miscarriages. If you don’t feel like you’ve been abandoned by our lawmakers, you might feel like the government is trying to kill you. The 2024 election cycle, meanwhile, has […]