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TEXAS TURNS ITS SPRAWLING STATE POLICE FORCE INTO IMMIGRATION AGENTS FOR TRUMP ↗

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BAIL CRACKDOWN ON BALLOT IGNORES MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS, ADVOCATES SAY ↗

Even without Proposition 3, "The jail system is already the largest warehouse of people with mental illness in the state of Texas."
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TEXAS CAN’T KEEP UP WITH SURGE IN WORKERS’ WAGE THEFT COMPLAINTS ↗

State labor investigators struggle to process more and more paycheck complaints, with millions of dollars in workers’ pay at stake.
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Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.

TRUMP’S ICE ARRESTED A WHISTLEBLOWER WHO EXPOSED SEXUAL ASSAULT IN DETENTION. NOW, HE’S LEFT THE COUNTRY. ↗

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Growing security deployments pose unique challenges for harm reduction groups.
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BORDER BARRIERS TO HARM REDUCTION ↗

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The Texas Majority PAC is the latest deep-pocketed initiative meant to turn Texas blue. But have its dollars just brought more discord?
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INSIDE THE RIFT BETWEEN TEXAS DEMS AND A SOROS-BACKED PAC ↗

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Her mother had been in a nursing home paid for by Medicaid. Now, the state wanted its money back: “It was like wild animals pouncing on meat."
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BURDEN OF PROOF ↗

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HOW SCHOLARS LOST THE CULTURE WAR OVER TEXAS HISTORY ↗

And how they could still start winning it.
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