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Inside a Major Climate Fight in Oil Country

El Pasoans are voting right now on an ambitious new climate policy. The climate charter, or proposition K, would set goals for renewable energy and…

This Democratic County Is Turning Red. Here’s Why.

Narrated by Jessica Burbank Latino voters in South Texas say that while they align with Democrats on social issues, they feel increasingly alienated from the…

Rochelle Garza May Unseat Texas’s Corrupt Attorney General

Video edited by Josh Hirschfeld-Kroen More than one and a half years after the deadly power grid failure that knocked out electricity for millions of…

Elon Musk’s Corporate Welfare Is On The Ballot In Austin, Texas

In 2021, officials in Travis County, Texas, secretly gave Tesla $60 million in tax breaks to set up a factory in Austin. The vote to…

How Fort Worth Activists Defeated the Dollar Store Invasion

A few years ago, former Councilmember Kelly Allen Gray noticed that dollar stores were invading her district in Fort Worth, Texas. There were almost one…