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The Texas Observer • INVESTIGATING TEXAS SINCE 1954

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GREG ABBOTT’S WASTEFUL BORDER WAR • The cost, scope, cruelty, and failure of the governor’s immigration dragnet far exceeds that of any of his predecessors.

THE PAIN BELONGS TO US • Archives of survival hold the power to transform beliefs about revenge, retribution, and the carceral state.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF ATTACKS ON GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE • A licensed physician and a psychologist from the Mayo Clinic worry what will happen to trangender youth if or when their health care is taken away.

STRANGEST STATE • NOTES FROM FAR-FLUNG AUSTIN TEXAS

TEXTING FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE • At the Texas Equal Access Fund, volunteers help Texans navigate a reproductive health network devastated by Senate Bill 8.

GREG CASAR SUPERSTAR? • The organizer, groundbreaking Austin policymaker, and congressional nominee plans to be the House’s ‘most pro-labor’

MEXICO’S REPO MAN • After billions went missing, the Mexican state of Veracruz turned to a prominent trial lawyer to recover money that was allegedly laundered in the Houston suburbs. But the unusual quest appears to be foundering.

LABELED HISPANIC • Fort Clark was founded to hunt the Indigenous peoples of South Texas. But today, Lipan Apaches all over the state are challenging the myth that their tribe was wiped out.

SAY HIS NAME: MARVIN SCOTT III • One year after his death in the Collin County Jail, his family still seeks accountability.

A LEXICON OF THE BORDER WARS • The ‘Bard of Juárez’ and a Tucson author and artist co-created a glossary of the violence so many on the border have endured.

THE SAN ANTONIO BORDER SECURITY EXPO IS DECADENT AND DEPRAVED • Robot dogs, cocktails, a shooting competition, and more taxpayer money than you can shake a drone at.

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