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Texas colleges could see fewer international students amid Trump immigration crackdown
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A power grab in plain sight: Inside Texas Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting push
| July 30, 2025
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Texas Republicans are backing a mid-decade redistricting campaign to secure GOP control of Congress, a move that Democrats and civil rights activists call a partisan power grab driven by Donald Trump.
North Texans fight back against ‘racist’ redistricting
| July 29, 2025
Hundreds of people testified against the redrawing of congressional maps during a hearing at the University of Texas at Arlington on Monday.
Texans will pay higher power bills because of tax credit cuts, economists say
| July 25, 2025
Economists expect that the development of solar and wind farms nationwide will slow and electricity prices will rise in the coming decade because of significant rollbacks to tax credits that benefited those industries, in addition to other economic uncertainty.
Greg Abbott targets redistricting, abortion pills, trans people in special session
| July 23, 2025
Texas Democrats criticized Gov. Greg Abbott’s special legislative session as “cruel” for including redistricting, seeking to ban abortion pills, and targeting trans people.
Texas native reveals: ‘Why I’ll be terrified to practice in Texas as an OB-GYN’
| July 20, 2025
‘By my second year in medical school, the effects of SB8 were getting more and more real. One night in the emergency room, the consequences just became so obvious in a real life way.’
In a Small Texas Town, Pride Grows Loud and Joyful
| July 18, 2025
A grassroots movement in rural Texas created a more inclusive place for all.
Federal DEI funding cuts threaten the work of the few remaining Black farmers in East Texas
| July 18, 2025
It has embroiled the federal government in disputes with colleges and universities. Big cities are reevaluating programs to ensure they don’t lose grants. And Fortune 500 companies seeking favor from the new administration have ended their DEI practices. And it has frozen cash flow for Black farmers, many of whom live in East Texas.
Most Texas prisoners don’t have AC access and it’s unclear when they will get it
| July 18, 2025
Two thirds of people incarcerated in Texas’ prisons face another summer without air conditioning after lawmakers again declined to pass legislation that would mandate a timeline for installing climate control in state facilities.
Central Texas officials asked the state for flood alarm funding. It never came.
| July 17, 2025
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Over the last decade, state officials repeatedly refused to fund a flood warning system in Central Texas.
Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE
| July 17, 2025
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.
Dallas lawmaker speaks about deadly floods
| July 15, 2025
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Rep. Mihaela Plesa (D-Dallas) urges state lawmakers to focus on “proactive” solutions to natural disasters when the special session starts on July 21.
Gov. Greg Abbott said the state’s response to natural disasters will be a top priority during the session. The floods that surged through Central Texas during the Fourth of July weekend killed over 120 people.
Advocate warns new law will destroy public school libraries
| July 15, 2025
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Laney Hawes, co-founder of the Texas Freedom to Read Project, breaks down Senate Bill 13, which gives school boards more power than librarians.