For thousands of people across the state, Monday — dubbed “a Day Without Immigrants” — topped off a weekend of protests against Trump’s racist immigration crackdown. Dallas, Houston, Pflugerville, McAllen, and even deep East Texas saw hundreds of people marching and waving flags from a variety of Latin American countries as a sign of solidarity […]
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‘It’s Going to Be a Rude Awakening’: How Immigrant Aid Groups Are Preparing for Trump’s Crackdown
Well, that didn’t take long. After running another campaign fueled by anti-immigrant rhetoric and racist fear-mongering, Donald Trump began his second term as president last week and promptly made good on his threats of an immigration crackdown. Just moments after being sworn in, the CBP One app went dark, leaving migrants along the border without […]
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Texas Is Now at the Heart of Trump’s Immigration Raids
President Trump’s immigration raids have begun — and law enforcement has Texas in its crosshairs. Over the weekend, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out a series of “enhanced targeted operations” across Texas, arresting dozens of people. The raids spanned across cities including Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, and the Rio Grande Valley. […]
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National Republican Morons Are Mad About the Texas House Speaker Race
The race for speaker of the Texas House continues to get stupider as one candidate has dubbed himself “speaker-elect” (which is not a real thing) and national Republicans weighed in this week. To catch you up, there’s been a scramble for the top state House post after the current speaker, state Rep. Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, […]
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Enjoy These Liberal Tears
I don’t know what to say. It’s the morning after Trump won (again), and I’m cleaning up my back porch from the sad election party the night before. The leftover beers are still sitting in an ice chest, and they’re still cold. I want to inhale five of them. Driving down South Congress in Austin […]
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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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Your Brother Will Be Stoked: Trump to Record Joe Rogan’s Podcast
Convicted felon and presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to try and appeal to your estranged uncle, this time announcing he’ll fly to Austin to record Joe Rogan’s podcast. Trump, who was found liable for sexual abuse last year, will sit down for the interview on Friday, the Associated Press reported. This honestly might be a […]
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We Should All Be Concerned About the Rhetoric Coming Out of Trump’s Orbit
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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She Voted for Trump. Then She Had Two Terrifying Miscarriages in Texas.
My sister Victoria was wrangling Elias, her then-2-year-old, into his costume on Halloween when the spots of blood in her underwear became worrisome. It was almost exactly two years ago, in 2022, and Elias had woken up from a nap excited about trick-or-treating. She’d gotten him into a shiny black firefighter hat, a yellow jacket […]
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Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness Attacked in ‘Upsetting’ Pro-Trump Ad
Jonathan Van Ness, the most famous of the five “Queer Eye” stars from the Netflix series, spoke out on Instagram on Monday morning after they were featured in a pro-Donald Trump attack ad, just weeks before the presidential election. The ad, which was posted to YouTube over the weekend, attacks Vice President Kamala Harris and calls […]