T-Squared: We’re making progress toward The Texas Tribune’s staff diversity goals
Our efforts are paying off but we have work to do to ensure that our mission-driven, nonpartisan newsroom is as diverse as it should be. Full Story
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Why Ken Paxton’s supporters in the Texas attorney general race are unbothered by his mounting scandals
Paxton’s backers say they’re looking past the FBI investigation into Paxton and his felony indictment because he’s a a strong conservative advocate fighting the Biden administration. Full Story
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![Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attends a campaign event during a Bulverde Spring Branch Conservative Republicans meeting on Monday evening in Bulverde. Paxton criticized President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, championed voter fraud in Texas and praised the leaked SCOTUS draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.]()
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T-Squared: Lucy Tompkins is joining us as a New York Times Headway fellow
A Montana native and a former Fulbright fellow, Lucy will cover housing and homelessness in Texas in the second year of her two-year fellowship. Full Story
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Her daughters are U.S. citizens. A federal health rule won’t let this Guatemalan mother enter the country with them.
After drug cartel members began demanding monthly payments, she took her daughters to the border to seek asylum. They’ve been waiting in a Juárez shelter for more than a year. Full Story
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![Emilsa of Guatemala stands near the showers of a Ciudad Juárez migrant shelter with her daughters, both of whom are U.S. citizens, on Tuesday. The three have been at the shelter for over a year — longer than anyone else currently there.]()
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Seven ways climate change is already hitting Texans
Extreme weather events, water scarcity, risks of illness: Climate change is here, and it’s already affecting Texans. Full Story
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Help us show how climate change is impacting Texans
Climate change is here. We want to document where its effects are being felt in Texas, how communities are adapting and what government officials should do to help. Full Story
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![A firefighter with Nueces County Fire Rescue surveys the burnt brush on March 31, 2022. According to the Texas A&M Forest Service, a wildfire nearly 60,000 acres big, which was named the Borrega wildfire, burned through the King Ranch and surrounding areas.]()
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Personal information of 1.8 million Texans with Department of Insurance claims was exposed for years, audit says
The personal data was accessible to the public because of a glitch in the code of the department’s web application. Full Story
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Underdog Jane Hope Hamilton angling for an upset against Jasmine Crockett in Dallas-area congressional primary
Crockett is running on her experience as a legislator, a civil rights attorney and as the incumbent’s hand-picked successor. Hamilton is running on her more than 20 years as a behind-the-scenes congressional staffer and campaign adviser. Full Story
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![State Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, and Jane Hope Hamilton are in a runoff in the 30th Congressional District, long held by outgoing U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas.]()
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Texas power grid leaders say they’re confident the lights will stay on this summer
Texas Public Utility Commission Chair Peter Lake and ERCOT President Brad Jones said the power grid is prepared for record-breaking summer electricity demand. Full Story
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![Brad Jones, interim president and CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), speaks at a press conference about the grid on May 17, 2022.]()
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With renewed attention on abortion, Democrats in attorney general runoff vow to defend reproductive rights
Rochelle Garza sued the Trump administration in 2017, seeking access to an abortion for an undocumented teenager. Joe Jaworski, a former Galveston mayor and a trial attorney for over three decades, presents himself as the more experienced candidate. Full Story
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![ACLU lawyer Rochelle Garza and Joe Jaworski, Democratic candidates for Attorney General.]()
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Texas’ grid operator told a power plant to delay repairs ahead of a May heat wave. It was among six that crashed.
Climate change and other factors are shortening the window when aging Texas power plants can make repairs to run at full strength in hot summer months. Full Story
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![Plant manager Curt Terry walks media through the weatherization process of Vistra Corp.’s Midlothian Power Plant on October 15, 2021.]()
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Texas librarians face harassment as they navigate book bans
As communities and school districts push for book bans, some Texas librarians are nearing their breaking point. Full Story
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![Suzette Baker was given a list of books to take off the shelves of Kingsland Library in Llano County. Baker refused, and she was fired.]()
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In rematch, Jessica Cisneros faces a weakened Henry Cuellar for South Texas congressional seat
An FBI raid on his home before the primary and a threat to Roe v. Wade. Henry Cuellar is heading into the primary runoff election more vulnerable than ever before. Full Story
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![Democratic candidate for Congress Jessica Cisneros talks with to her supporters at her campaign headquarters before they head out to canvass in Laredo on Feb. 19, 2022.]()
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West Texas rancher pours $2 million into Sarah Stogner’s underdog campaign for statewide oil and gas board seat
Ashley Watt, who owns a 75,000-acre ranch in the Permian Basin, is helping bankroll a substantial TV ad buy in the final two weeks before Stogner faces the Railroad Commission’s chair, Wayne Christian, in the runoff. Full Story
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![Railroad Commissioner candidate Sarah Stogner waits to speak at a Republican Railroad Commission Forum alongside incumbent Wayne Christian at Celebrate It, an event hall in Paris, Texas, on April 26, 2022.]()
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Looming end of federal pandemic emergency threatens to shake Texas’ Medicaid safety net, advocates say
The federal emergency declaration is expected to last through at least mid-October and has kept states from dropping people from Medicaid rolls. Full Story
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Supreme Court overturns law that barred Ted Cruz from fully recouping a personal loan he made to his campaign
The court’s three liberal justices dissented from the majority’s decision, saying that the ruling rewards politicians and paves the way for political corruption. Full Story
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Four days after audacious escape from prison bus, Texas still hasn’t found convicted murderer
Officials are still trying to piece together how Gonzalo Lopez managed to cut through a metal door and hijack a prison bus Thursday. An extensive manhunt continues in Leon County. Full Story
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South Texas Democrats fight to shape their party’s future in primary runoffs
Democratic primary runoffs for two congressional districts and two legislative seats in South Texas highlight the candidates’ divergent visions for the party in a region the GOP is heavily targeting. Full Story
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![Jessica Marie Ramirez, 34, attends a press conference organized by Black Voters Matter, the Texas Right to Vote Coalition, Texas for All Coalition and other advocacy groups on the south steps of the Texas Capitol on July 8, 2021.
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New Texas plan for federal Hurricane Harvey aid yields same old result: Funds diverted away from Gulf Coast
Despite an admonition from federal authorities, Land Commissioner George P. Bush’s plan still steers aid disproportionately to whiter, inland counties at less risk of natural disasters. Full Story
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In Texas visit, Donald Trump rallies Republican voters to deliver a GOP wave in November midterms
The former president criticized Democrats, who control Congress and the White House, on a number of issues. He also praised Texas Republicans he’s endorsed in this month’s primary runoff. Full Story
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![Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Conroe on January 29, 2022.]()
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