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Texas’ blue wave bodes well for ending the GOP’s failed agenda for public schools

Texas Republicans inherited classrooms filled with smart kids and turned them into a confederacy of dunces.

by Kevin Sanchez November 9, 2026November 9, 2026

Texas Republicans inherited classrooms filled with smart kids and turned them into a confederacy of dunces.

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Republicans at Trump’s San Antonio rally, and elsewhere, revisit a tired smear campaign

Today’s red-baiting GOP continues to bang the horrors of 20th-century communism like a cheap drum.

by Kevin Sanchez October 19, 2026October 19, 2026

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Bad Takes: Banned Books Week arrives as Texas librarians face mounting censorship

Educators warn new laws, criminal penalties and AI-driven challenges are chilling students’ right to read.

by Kevin Sanchez October 5, 2026October 5, 2026

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Trump’s war on immigration leaves us a weaker nation

The toll is both human and economic, and it’s a shame we let it get this far.

by Kevin Sanchez September 18, 2026September 18, 2026

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Climate change isn’t the new normal. What we’re experiencing now is just the beginning.

Despite all the naysaying from the right, a majority of U.S. residents are aware of the climate crisis we now face.

by Kevin Sanchez August 21, 2026August 21, 2026

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during the CPAC Texas 2022 conference in Dallas.

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Texas politicos’ Islamophobic rhetoric may win with the base, but it harms us all

Islamophobic posts on social media and hate crimes against Muslims remain at an unprecedented high as GOP leaders turn up the volume on their damaging rhetoric.

by Kevin Sanchez May 13, 2026May 13, 2026

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Texas needs massive investments in clean water, but there’s still hope for our environment

Texas must spend big to ensure its future water supply. So far, those in charge aren’t taking that obligation seriously enough.

by Kevin Sanchez May 6, 2026May 6, 2026

A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper keeps an eye on protesters in downtown San Antonio.

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Bad Takes: San Antonio needs more police oversight, not more police on the streets

Spending more on police while hollowing out social programs isn’t the way to ensure safer neighborhoods.

by Kevin Sanchez April 17, 2026April 17, 2026

Organizers from Starbucks Workers United rally at Labor Plaza in downtown San Antonio several years ago.

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U.S. workers want union representation. We need political leaders who respect that.

Only 4% of employees in the San Antonio-New Braunfels area are covered by a union contract.

by Kevin Sanchez April 7, 2026April 7, 2026

A "Trump for President" sign hangs on the side of a rusted pickup truck in rural Texas.

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Bad Takes: The GOP’s professed love of rural Texans is all hat and no cattle

As Trump and his allies enact their agenda, no constituency stands to fall harder than the fifth of our fellow citizens who live in rural America, millions of Texans among them.

by Kevin Sanchez March 23, 2026March 23, 2026

The changes to Texas' social studies curriculum have a lasting effect on what kids learn in the classroom.

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It’s time to push back the right-wing forces dismantling Texas’ history curriculum

So far, the Texas State Board of Education’s massive revamp of the social studies curriculum is driven by ideology, not an attempt to accurately convey history.

by Kevin Sanchez February 5, 2026February 5, 2026