Texas Lead Story

For some Texas students, citizenship isn’t enough to feel safe
| August 8, 2025
CIVIL RIGHTS | DFW Lead Story | EDUCATION | IMMIGRATION | national politics | politics | TEXAS | Texas Lead Story
Texas college students are fearful that their citizenship status will not be enough to protect them from the current ICE raids.

Texas Republicans unveil new congressional maps targeting 5 Democratic US House seats
by Matt Hennie
| July 30, 2025
2026 Election | DFW | HTX | redistricting | TEXAS | Texas Lead Story | TEXAS LEGISLATURE | TEXAS POLITICS
Texas Republicans proposed new maps for US House seats in the state, targeting five Democratic districts in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and South Texas.

Op-Ed: To Texas, From a Fellow Survivor: We See You. We’re With You
by Gina Heath
| July 29, 2025
To the people of Texas: you are part of something bigger now. A growing, fierce, and resilient community of people who refuse to be quiet about what we’ve lost—and what we all deserve.

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.’

Cruz, Cornyn voted to slash weather forecast funding ahead of Texas floods
| July 15, 2025
Sen. Ted Cruz inserted language into President Trump’s budget bill cutting $150 million in funding for weather forecast improvements.