The recent redistricting of county commissioners court precincts has galvanized progressive organizers heading into 2026.

She's a death row survivor, but she doesn't think she's really any different from her friends who are still set to die.

The new date comes after Ken Paxton took over the case that could lead to the nation's first execution based on the contested diagnosis.

The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death ...

The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important ...

The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.

Each year, nearly 800,000 people pay a small admission fee to pass through the gates of the capital city’s spring-fed ...

Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and ...

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The White Shaman mural is painted on the east wall of a southwest-facing shelter, and faces due west. The positioning of figures within the mural suggests alignment with sun and shadow as observed on ...

A version of this story ran in the May 2016 issue. The first thing she noticed was Sheriff Pamela Elliott standing across the street. It was an August evening in 2014, and Rachel Gallegos had just ...

A version of this story ran in the February 2013 issue. This story was produced as part of a joint venture with Reporting Texas, an online publication at the University of Texas-Austin’s School of ...