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Presenting the November/December 2026 issue of Texas Observer magazine, with cover story by @CandiceBernd. Cover photograph by Jordan Vonderhaar.
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ALT The November/December 2026 issue of our magazine features a photo of nuclear-power equipment under construction in a mostly bare warehouse hung with Texas and U.S. flags. A construction worker is welding the shell of a miniature nuclear reactor. A metal Dewar flask sits in the foreground. Headline: Going Nuclear, Startup companies promising clean energy are striking a Faustian bargain with AI data centers, by Candice Bernd. Other headlines: The Adoption Trap II by Sandy West, Communism's Cowboy Canon by Michael Agresta.
New from @ceresa_robert: Between 1920 and 1932, Black Texans built 464 schools with room for 57,330 children, 31 teachers’ homes, and 32 vocational shops. The money tells the story. Black Texans contributed $392,851 towards their construction. texasobserver.org/rosenwald-…
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Can confirm, @Sarah4Texas told me she intends to send subpoenas to individuals and groups associated with the fraudulent transgender mailers
New: A Republican district attorney in West Texas has opened a criminal investigation into pamphlets mailed to homes across Texas purporting to come from a transgender rights organization. bit.ly/4kb9Y1d
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"Steven Monacelli of the Texas Observer has proven that this organization is a fake one, created in September in Wyoming, conducting its disinformation campaign through anonymity via a registered agent service."
Last night, TX House LGBTQ Caucus Chair @jessicafortexas sent a letter to every member of the Texas House about recent 'false flag' texts and mailings sent to millions of Texas voters by the "Texas Transgender Student Union", a fake organization peddling disinformation from WY.
“The civilized keep records to purge their wickedness from the national soul, recollected in tranquility.”
In books, our review of Fady Joudah’s "Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza": texasobserver.org/after-geno…
Featured story: Dee Azadian's work refocuses history through the lens of its ordinary participants rather than its leading men. And interviewing octogenarians in the 1970s brings us voices and historical material from the post-Civil War era. texasobserver.org/earth-has-…
ALT The faces of elderly Caldwell County residents photographed in the 1970s. There are 4 men and one women in this photo spread, racially diverse, dressed in both suits and rustic clothing.
The projects would release 10,000's of tons of regulated pollutants, according to permits, as well as more than 100M tons per year of greenhouse gases—an enormous amount roughly equal to the annual emissions of a mid-sized industrialized country. texasobserver.org/texas-cont…
“During year one of our genocide, on the day you abstained, and the resolution passed, a legislative absolution in which I and my family tree were non-binding— / and with the aid of your AI eye in the sky, Israel killed Hussein.” texasobserver.org/after-geno…
Brandon Gill boasts family ties to Trump's orbit: His defunct right-wing news site, DC Enquirer, was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the conspiracy-laden films of his father-in-law, Dinesh D’Souza. texasobserver.org/brandon-gi…
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It's almost hard to keep in mind, at this point, that Pulido's race is the Trump +18 one.
The 3 South Texas seats that Republicans thought they had lined up to flip (28, 34, 35) are only Trump +10. texasobserver.org/poll-bobby… from @ajcorchado
The poll found that likely voters favor Bobby Pulido 51% to 44% over Republican Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz. Among Latino likely voters, the gap widens, with about 57% for Pulido, compared with 40% for De La Cruz. texasobserver.org/poll-bobby…
New from Chi Pham: Fady Joudah, a Palestinian American and an internal medicine physician at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has released a powerful literary survey of Palestine that charts complicity and erasure with medical precision. texasobserver.org/after-geno…
“We have been encouraging candidates like Gina Hinojosa to speak about abortion access unapologetically and with clarity. When we don’t explicitly use the word abortion, we produce greater stigma and shame.” texasobserver.org/talarico-h…
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Funding for drug rehabilitation programs has not kept pace with inflation in the past decade, and Texas hasn’t asked lawmakers for money to expand these programs, even as need grows and the agency says it is trying to offer programming to more prisoners. texasobserver.org/surge-pris…
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“This is happening all over the country.”
New from @psskow, via @insideclimate and @ExpressNews: In Texas, suburbs have sprung up where oil pump jacks once bobbed. Homebuyers don't always know until it's too late. texasobserver.org/abandoned-…
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It really shouldn't be this hard for me to figure out who sent a piece of mail
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Small update re: the Texas Transgender Student Union mailers.
Snailworks, the company that provided mail tracking services for the mailers, denies sending them but will not disclose who hired them. The NRCC spent $4,677 on Snailworks on 8/27/26. TTSU was created days later.
"I still do not know how a government form recorded the 'spoken' answers of a man without speech, & at the end of that process, a judge set bond at $10,000 for a man who could not have asked for a lawyer even if his life depended on it. In a way, it did." texasobserver.org/cash-bail-…
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Congressman Brandon Gill’s proposals follow the anti-immigrant MAGA playbook: scapegoat, constrict legal pathways, eliminate birthright citizenship, and outright ban migration from certain countries. Now he's eyeing a top oversight role. texasobserver.org/brandon-gi…