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Data visuals at @texastribune; TX transplant; enthusiast of good food, epic tales, live music and the great outdoors. RTs are worth your time

Austin, TX
Joined June 2011
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Must read: We broke down the most competitive races for congressional and #txlege seats in the Texas midterms. You can enter your address to see how competitive your districts are. Via @ApurvaMahajan_ @RenzoDowney texastribune.org/2026/10/06/…
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Struggling to fully grasp how much money this is, I have calculated this $$$ = ~59 million $4 tacos. In an election cycle where the top issue is affordability / economy / cost of living, this could buy at least 10 tacos for each of the ~5.5 million kids in Texas public schools.
At $237.9M in ad spending and reservations, the #TXSen general election is the 9th most expensive Senate election on record. It's already surpassed the 2024 TX Senate general election by nearly $35M. Aired spending: 🔴 $113.8M 🔵 $62.0M Future reservations: 🔴 $58.6M 🔵 $3.6M
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Chris Essig retweeted
It’s here! The full TribFest program just dropped. Hear from 250+ leaders, thinkers and innovators, including @SenatorWarnock, @RepMcCaul and @GinaHinojosaTX, across 100+ sessions, Sept. 24–26 in downtown Austin. Explore the program: trib.it/tribfest26-x-fullpro… #TribFest26
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Chris Essig retweeted
I'm thinking today about the people I've met and the stories they've shared since the July 4 floods. What happened that day -- and the grief and loss and rebuilding and resilience -- will certainly stay with me. Here are some of their stories:
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New: Texas Democrats more than doubled their turnout from 2024 during the primary elections on March 3 in the Rio Grande Valley, as the % of registered D voters who cast a ballot far exceeded that of recent elex. w/ this neat graphic via @ApurvaMahajan_ texastribune.org/2026/03/13/…
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Happy to share some professional news: I just finished my first week at @propublica as a News Apps Developer. Humbled to join this team of talented data journalists and coders! propublica.org/newsapps
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Chris Essig retweeted
I was laid off today from the Washington Post’s campaigns team covering the midterms and 2028. I hear this is an important election year — and I want to cover it aggressively. If you’d like to work together, my DMs are open and you can email me at [email protected].
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Since Timothy Mellon is in the news, a throwback to when @carla_astudi and I discovered he was responsible for nearly all of the donations to Texas' border wall project. And, yes, he was eligible for tax credits for that gift texastribune.org/2021/10/06/…
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Just how catastrophic was the scope, scale and intensity of the Central Texas floods? The @TexasTribune team have put together graphics explaining. Visuals by me, @CEssig and @Edison_YZ_Wu
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My last project @TexasTribune is out! 🥲 Migrant remains have kept rising in the desert west of El Paso — even as numbers have gone down across the rest of the border. With @ujohnnyg and @PatLohmann of @Source_NM texastribune.org/2025/06/16/…
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FYI if you like our data lookups we build at @TexasTribune, consider becoming a member and donating to us. Your money will go to support our journalism! support.texastribune.org/don…
Now that the 2025 #txlege is over, are you wondering how your legislators voted on key bills? I got ya covered! I built a nifty little lookup tool to help you do just that for the @TexasTribune
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Another coolest tool by @carla_astudi !!
Now that the 2025 #txlege is over, are you wondering how your legislators voted on key bills? I got ya covered! I built a nifty little lookup tool to help you do just that for the @TexasTribune
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Now that the 2025 #txlege is over, are you wondering how your legislators voted on key bills? I got ya covered! I built a nifty little lookup tool to help you do just that for the @TexasTribune
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Some personal news: I'm soon leaving @TexasTribune. The Trib has shaped me so much as a designer, developer, and visual journalist, and I’ve gotten to work on some of the projects I'm most proud of. So thankful to have learned from such talented colleagues and mentors. 💛
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The 3D map visuals in this @TexasTribune Texas border wall investigation are dope! s/o to our talented data visuals developer @yuriko_a_s apps.texastribune.org/featur…
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Friday evening @TexasTribune data visual story drop - analysis on how Cruz performed compared to Trump in Texas by me, @yuriko_a_s and @PoojaSalhotra texastribune.org/2024/11/08/…
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#Trump won 14 out of the 18 counties within 20 miles of the #border, doubling his attention-grabbing 2020 performance in the #Latino-majority region. This graphic from @dankeemahill via @propublica @texastribune shows how it shifted in 30 years. propublica.org/article/donal…
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Just an absolutely unreal graphic showing Trump's gains in Texas-Mexico border counties since 2016. Starr County, population 65,920 and 97% Latino, shifted 75 PERCENTAGE POINTS in Trump's direction. texastribune.org/2024/11/06/…
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The @TexasTribune set out to visualize the number of voters in a state where one county has millions (Harris) and others have closer to 100 (Loving). Here's the piegram map that @yuriko_a_s came up with:
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