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Presenting the November/December 2026 issue of Texas Observer magazine, with cover story by @CandiceBernd. Cover photograph by Jordan Vonderhaar.
Members get six issues of our magazine, every year. Visit our website to join.
ALT The November/December 2026 issue of our magazine features a photo of nuclear-power equipment under construction in a mostly bare warehouse hung with Texas and U.S. flags. A construction worker is welding the shell of a miniature nuclear reactor. A metal Dewar flask sits in the foreground. Headline: Going Nuclear, Startup companies promising clean energy are striking a Faustian bargain with AI data centers, by Candice Bernd. Other headlines: The Adoption Trap II by Sandy West, Communism's Cowboy Canon by Michael Agresta.
From September: âHenry Cuellar has, he has many, many years in D.C. And I think that that has changed Henry Cuellar over time. People can identify with Tano Tijerina and the things heâs done here with the county.â texasobserver.org/tano-tijerâŚ
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Quite a while ago now, I got to do a little story on Huerta.
-- âWeâve got the power!â answered the crowd. âWeâre going to say it real loud,â Huerta added. âSo the racists, the neo-Nazis, the alt-right, the homophobes, all the haters hear us...â --texasobserver.org/dolores-huâŚ
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Local news reported that Jennifer James, wife of a councilmember in White Settlement running for reelection, was cited for stealing a sign for Mayor Faron Young, who defeated her husband in 2023. The reports missed that Jennifer is on the Tarrant County early voting ballot board.
Top story: We used public records to piece together a timeline detailing the almost 5-year saga of BlackRock's efforts to get back into the good graces of the state's climate-denying leadership, after the investment giant became an "ESG" enemy of Texas. texasobserver.org/blackrock-âŚ
New from @DylanBaddour and @arcelitamartin at @insideclimate: Plans are advancing on the Gulf Coast for an enormous seawater desalination plant which would belong to a private, foreign water supplier. texasobserver.org/texas-payiâŚ
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âThese actions do not signal an agency trying to pause.â
Last week, from @DylanBaddour at @insideclimate: Regulators in Texas did not stop processing permits for data center projects when Gov. Greg Abbott publicly ordered a pause last month. texasobserver.org/texas-contâŚ
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âRepublicans [are] on the wrong side of this data center issue.â
A recent poll claims 60% of rural Texans oppose data centers in their communities. This long-shot Democratic candidate hopes to win votes by appealing to an increasingly bipartisan cause. texasobserver.org/jim-hightoâŚ
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Last week: The poll found that likely voters favor Bobby Pulido 51% to 44% over Republican Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz. Among Latino likely voters, the gap widens, with about 57% for Pulido, compared with 40% for De La Cruz. texasobserver.org/poll-bobbyâŚ
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Presenting the November/December 2026 issue of Texas Observer magazine, with cover story by @CandiceBernd. Cover photograph by Jordan Vonderhaar.
Members get six issues of our magazine, every year. Visit our website to join.
ALT The November/December 2026 issue of our magazine features a photo of nuclear-power equipment under construction in a mostly bare warehouse hung with Texas and U.S. flags. A construction worker is welding the shell of a miniature nuclear reactor. A metal Dewar flask sits in the foreground. Headline: Going Nuclear, Startup companies promising clean energy are striking a Faustian bargain with AI data centers, by Candice Bernd. Other headlines: The Adoption Trap II by Sandy West, Communism's Cowboy Canon by Michael Agresta.
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To be a journalist is to spend your entire career simultaneously aspiring to work at the New York Times and deeply resenting it for stealing so many local stories without giving credit.
NEW: The Timesâs Credit Crisis
A recent New York Times front-page feature on chemical plants in the Trump era had deep reporting, stark data visuals, and an uncanny resemblance to a smaller outletâs earlier investigation. Was this a case of unacknowledged inspiration, a steroidal dose of Times exceptionalism, or sheer coincidence?
puck.news/media/2026/10/did-âŚ
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The @nytimes rates Texas as the no. 1 most gerrymandered state in the country. nytimes.com/interactive/2026âŚ
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Normally I don't get too worked up about this, but for some reason other outlets are on a bender of not citing the Observer the last few weeks, and not just the NYT
texasobserver.org/ken-paxton⌠(published around noon)
Hours after my reporting, @wfaa reported Chris Hilton is the attorney representing Texas Transgender Student Union, the anonymous LLC that sent the transgender mailers to Texans. WFAA also reports Hilton said disclosing the identity of who created them would "cause harm."
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Hours after my reporting, @wfaa reported Chris Hilton is the attorney representing Texas Transgender Student Union, the anonymous LLC that sent the transgender mailers to Texans. WFAA also reports Hilton said disclosing the identity of who created them would "cause harm."
We linked the barcode on the mailers to Snailworks, a mail tracking company which received federal campaign payments from only one group in 2026: the National Republican Congressional Committee.
The NRCC told us it had nothing to do with the mailers. texasobserver.org/ken-paxtonâŚ
Itâs the first time in modern Texas history that there will be a Democrat in every state & federal race. In West Texas that means strengthening the partyâs infrastructure & taking on politicians who have sunk comfortably into the highest seats of power. texasobserver.org/west-texasâŚ
Thanks @DMagazine ! Read it here; texasobserver.org/ken-paxtonâŚ
"The scheme is complicated and buried inside a Russian nesting doll, as all great right-wing schemes are... If you want to get up to speed, read this Texas Observer story written by sometime D Magazine contributor Steven Monacelli."
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Last week: The poll found that likely voters favor Bobby Pulido 51% to 44% over Republican Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz. Among Latino likely voters, the gap widens, with about 57% for Pulido, compared with 40% for De La Cruz. texasobserver.org/poll-bobbyâŚ
The race between Ken Paxton & James Talarico remains nail-bitingly close, & the GOP & their surrogates are trying everything to take down Talarico.
New: @stevanzetti on attempts at an "October Surprise," including anti-transgender mailers flooding Texas. texasobserver.org/ken-paxtonâŚ
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NEW: For @texasobserver, I dug into the ginned up âOctober surprisesâ in the Senate race in Texas. Most notably, the bogus transgender mailers, which trace back to a printing shop whose owners are major Republican donors with ties to Dallas megadonors.
texasobserver.org/ken-paxtonâŚ
New from @CandiceBernd: How did the worldâs largest asset manager go from a blacklisted enemy to GOP darling?
Itâs a nearly 5-year-long tale that reflects the profound impact the one-party governing apparatus of Texas can wield in the name culture wars. texasobserver.org/blackrock-âŚ