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Founded in 1954, the Texas Observer is a #progressive #nonprofit news outlet and print #magazine covering the Lone Star State.

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“I know I can be a pain in the ass. You have to be tenacious to do this work; you have to have a little bit of crazy.” https://www.texasobserver.org/laredo-wall-tricia-cortez-profile-border/

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Previously: Daniel Chacón's latest short story collection, The Last Philosopher in Texas, shows how fiction and superstition often mix with reality in the lives of many Chicanos. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-chicano-time-traveler/

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Earlier: “They feel more legitimized and more like what they do will be overlooked or even encouraged by law enforcement.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/border-vigilantes-law-enforcement-texas-arizona/

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@gooba42 can't argue with that, but it's disturbing to see how far they've come!

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From the archives: “My mind whirred with all the reasons I was not the right person. We never thought we were filing what would become the Supreme Court case.” https://www.texasobserver.org/roes-grassroots-beginnings-abortion-ut-austin/

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@WINGS_radio sounds like a fascinating experience, thank you for sharing

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Texas disappears more people in long-term solitary cells than all other states and the federal system combined. Today, we share the voices of prisoners within this hidden world: https://texasobserver.org/texans-trapped-in-solitary-confinement/

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“If the facts as you just stated are true, then apparently some people are above the law.”

Last week: The Texas Observer and Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting have found that armed vigilantes have forged relationships with local and federal law enforcement—ties that appear to elevate risks of violence in already volatile #border regions. https://www.texasobserver.org/border-vigilantes-law-enforcement-texas-arizona/

#politics #news #USpol #Mexico #Arizona #Texas #SouthTexas #immigration #police

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“The Remnant Alliance is just the latest version of an ongoing effort to politicize evangelical pastors and their congregations by the radical right wing of the Republican Party.”

Featured: A new coalition of Christian nationalist groups is mobilizing congregations to take over Texas school boards. https://www.texasobserver.org/christian-schoolboards-education-k12/ via @stevanzetti

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From our magazine: “You've built your beach homes
on a slow sinking island
that the dune grass abandons
the ocean will overrun.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/poem-the-gulf-gives-fair-warning-at-galveston-island/

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We're excited to share the finalists and winner of the 2024 MOLLY National Journalism Prize! The MOLLY Prize honors former TXO editor/columnist Molly Ivins’ legacy, and awards the best investigative journalism in the U.S. This year's judges had their work cut out for them!

1/10

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The winner of the 2024 MOLLY Prize is Searchlight New Mexico reporter Alicia Inez Guzmán for her powerful investigation, "Buried Secrets, Poisoned Bodies,"

https://searchlightnm.org/buried-secrets-poisoned-bodies/

2/10

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One judge wrote, "The reporter appropriately weaves her biography ... within detailed, dogged reporting to tell a complex story in a most approachable and inviting way. It’s told with insight yet without journalistic pathology, it’s told unsparingly but with warmth."

3/10

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More than one of our judges commented on the difficulty of choosing amongst the entries, it "feels almost mean" to pick, one wrote. And our two honorary mentions certainly make that point. The honorary mentions are:

4/10

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"Unprepared," a startling investigation published in partnership by @texastribune, @ProPublica and Frontline,
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/uvalde-officer-student-trainings-mass-shootings/

5/10

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And the series "Prosecuting Pregnancy," a series done in partnership by The Marshall Project, ALdotcom, The Post and Courier, Mississippi Today, The Frontier and The Guardian.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/tag/beyond-roe

6/10

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On "Unprepared," a judge wrote "This is an incredible feat of reporting. Mass shootings and gun control reform get a lot of coverage, but this reporting delves below the surface to highlight the systematic failures...The writing is lucid, simple, and devastating."

7/10

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We'll be honoring our winner and finalists next Thursday, May 30, at 6pm at our annual MOLLY National Journalism Prize Gala. The event also serves as our largest single fundraiser. And this year, the MOLLY Awards kick off the Observer’s 70th year in publication.

8/10

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We’ve been telling it like it is, which we call “hewing to the truth,” since 1954, and we're not slowing down. There are still sponsorships available, as well as individual tickets on sale. Join us to deliver urgently needed funding for our journalism. https://www.texasobserver.org/molly-awards/sponsor-molly-2024/

9/10

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Congratulations to all of the finalists and winner! 10/10

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Armed vigilantes in TX and AZ are collaborating with law enforcement, who have sometimes failed to arrest or charge them—even when vigilantes were filming committing crimes in front of officers, or when police documented violations.
https://www.texasobserver.org/border-vigilantes-law-enforcement-texas-arizona/

#news #politics #USpol #border #immigration #police #HumanRights #Texas #Arizona #extremism

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Our top story: Remembering Lexi ... and all the rest, two years after the tragedy. We honor those who still search for justice: https://www.texasobserver.org/uvalde-two-years-later-photo-essay/

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From our magazine, a poem:

"You've built your beach homes..."
https://www.texasobserver.org/poem-the-gulf-gives-fair-warning-at-galveston-island/

TexasObserver, to politics
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The Texas Observer and Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting have found that armed vigilantes have forged relationships with local and federal law enforcement—ties that appear to elevate risks of violence in already volatile regions. From Francesca D'Annunzio and Avery Schmitz: https://www.texasobserver.org/border-vigilantes-law-enforcement-texas-arizona/

TexasObserver, to Texas
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This time in Strangest State: Power outages, alligators and Elon Musk. https://www.texasobserver.org/strangest-state-powerlines-ufos-cockfights-elon-musk/

If you see a strange local news story around , give us a shout at strangest[at]texasobserver[dot]org.

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@PJ_Evans how strange!

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