Please tag the Texas Observer in social media posts promoting the republished story. Three drones whirred loudly in a gray metal box in the corner, the fans kicking up enough wind to rustle notebooks.

Once billed as rehabilitative alternatives to prisons, these facilities are the sites of fatal overdoses—like that which ...

Huckaby, a Fort Worth native and longtime professor at UT-Arlington, made his name creating massive, mural-sized paintings ...

Last week, the prosecutor James Rodden returned to Dallas immigration court a year after the Observer's original investigation into his social media. Congressman Marc Veasey’s amendment did not ...

One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause ...

The neo-Nazi group is engaged in a strategy to establish an independent economic ecosystem. Through publicly available ...

The state has signed off on voucher funds for schools that exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.

James Rodden, identified by the Observer last year as the operator of an account that routinely posted hateful statements, ...

A scheme to relocate the unhoused out of one Texas city's downtown sheds light on a larger right-wing takeover of federal ...

Hearst's acquisition of struggling newspapers in the state may seem like welcome news. But bigger doesn't always mean better.

In the small Gulf Coast city of Freeport, a pretty mint-green house stands alone in a neighborhood called the East End, surrounded by what looks at first glance like a meadow. Closer examination ...