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April 22, 2025
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October 16, 2024
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March 5, 2024
“Playbook of Fear” Fails to Sway Voters in Austin and Houston DA Races
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February 14, 2024
The Texas Elections That Will Shape Policing and Punishment This Year
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January 26, 2024
Your Guide to Four Emerging Threats to the Voting Rights Act
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December 22, 2023
Out of Sight
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November 16, 2023
Promises to Scale Up Policing Stir Houston’s Mayoral Race
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September 1, 2023
The “Chief Lawbreaking Officer” of Texas Finally Faces Trial
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July 26, 2023
Dallas County Jail Adds Election Day Polling Place After Pressure from Activists
Jessica Pishko
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June 2, 2023
Republicans Escalate Attacks on Election Administration in Texas’ Largest County
Michael Barajas
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May 8, 2023
Austin Voters Embrace Civilian Police Oversight in Saturday Election
Michael Barajas
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April 19, 2023
Police Union Spreads Fear Over San Antonio Ballot Measure Decriminalizing Weed and Abortion
Michael Barajas
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April 3, 2023
“A Weapon by the State to Silence Our Voices”
Piper French
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March 24, 2023
Texas Bill Tries to Shroud Jail Deaths in Even More Secrecy
Michael Barajas
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March 9, 2023
Right-Wing Task Force Will Police Elections in the Texas GOP’s Last Urban Stronghold
Jessica Pishko
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January 27, 2023
A Texas ‘Crime Stopper’ Targeting Reform Judges Could Gain More Power Over Them
Michael Barajas
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January 9, 2023
“Exercises in Futility”: Dallas Police Oversight Board Mired in Frustration and Inaction
Tyler Hicks
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December 23, 2022
Ten Questions that Will Shape Democracy and Voting Rights in 2023
Camille Squires
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Daniel Nichanian
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Michael Barajas
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November 17, 2022
Election Day Problems Inflame Voter Fraud Conspiracies in Houston
Michael Barajas
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November 3, 2022
The 30 Prosecutor and Sheriff Races that Will Shape Criminal Justice Next Week
Michael Barajas
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Daniel Nichanian
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October 21, 2022
How Years of Organizing Put Drug Reform and Diversion on the Ballot in Central Texas
Michael Barajas
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October 7, 2022
As Election Nears, Dallas Politicians Have Few Answers for Their Jail Crisis
Tyler Hicks
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September 15, 2022
Texas Students Are Again Battling the Closure of a Campus Polling Place
Michael Barajas
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August 8, 2022
How Small Towns Are Working to Protect Abortion Rights from State Threats
Davis Giangiulio
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July 29, 2022
North Texas Conservatives Police High Turnout and Close Races as “Anomalies” Suggesting Fraud
Michael Barajas
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July 14, 2022
Your Guide to Local Elections Where Abortion Is on the Line This Year
Daniel Nichanian
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July 7, 2022
“In Spite of This Place”
Michael Barajas
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June 17, 2022
“They Force You to Work”
Michael Barajas
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May 20, 2022
The Culture Warrior Prosecutor
Michael Barajas
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April 11, 2022
Texas Conservatives Want Private Cops to Police Elections
Michael Barajas
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March 7, 2022
Decarcerating from the Bench
Michael Barajas
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March 2, 2022
Big Wins for Big Lie Politics in Texas’s Republican Primaries
Daniel Nichanian
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March 2, 2022
Greg Casar Wins Congressional Primary, Defying Attacks on Criminal Justice Reforms He Championed in Austin
Michael Barajas
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February 23, 2022
The DA Elections That Will Shape Prosecution in Texas This Year
Michael Barajas
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Daniel Nichanian
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February 17, 2022
“Stop the Steal” Activists Target a Texas Judge
Michael Barajas
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February 9, 2022
Voting Rights Advocates Search for Openings to “Go Local” in Texas
Michael Barajas
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February 25, 2021
Prosecutors Excluded Black Jurors in a Death Penalty Case. They’re Getting Away With It.
Kyle C. Barry
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October 15, 2020
Will Texas Democrats’ Gains Topple a Trumpian Sheriff?
Teresa Mathew
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October 1, 2020
A Police Union Official Hopes Fear Of The Defund Movement Will Propel Him To The Texas House
Meg O'Connor
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July 10, 2020
A Texas Referendum Provides an Early Window Into Battles Over Police Budgets
James Russell
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January 30, 2020
Blockbuster D.A. Races Rock Big Texas Counties, from Austin to Houston
Daniel Nichanian
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September 12, 2019
Federal Judge Rebukes Houston DA for Using the Willie Horton Strategy
Daniel Nichanian
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February 27, 2024
Your Guide to What’s on the Ballot on Super Tuesday
Daniel Nichanian
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February 14, 2024
Who Is Running for District Attorney in Texas in 2024?
