Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.
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A Dallas Megadonor, a New Nonprofit, and the War on ‘Housing First’
On October 15, 2024, the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee held a wide-ranging special hearing in ...View More
Loon Star State: That Dog Hunts
All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the f ...View More
Why Houston Oil Majors Are Hesitant to Go All In on Venezuela
President Donald Trump’s deadly invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president could be an un ...View More
Could This State Senate Runoff Be a Tipping Point for Tarrant County?
Even some of his most passionate supporters were surprised by the number of votes Democrat Taylor Re ...View More
Midterm Memo: The C-Team. Maybe B-.
Much like how a sailor, lost and withering at sea, at least gets the chance to see the world, Texas’ ...View More
Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our January/February 2026 Issue
Texas Observer reader, Call me biased, but I do believe you’re holding a damn good magazine in your ...View More
Our Most-Read Stories of 2025
Web traffic is a fickle thing, but online readership numbers do at least give us at the Observer a s ...View More
Our Best Longform Stories of 2025
In case you find yourself this holiday season with a little extra reading time, or maybe time to ret ...View More
A Light the Darkness Cannot Extinguish
The editor of this publication wasn’t exaggerating when he called 2025 “this frankly awful year”: Th ...View More
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