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  A Thirsty Tesla Refinery Could Exacerbate Corpus Christi’s Water Crisis

  Texas Observer - by Justin Doud

  Local activists warn that while residents must ration, unimpeded industrial expansion is imperiling the region’s future. Corpus Christi is a town …

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  A Texas Writer Tackles a Subject ‘Beckoning in the Shadows His Entire Life’

  Texas Observer - by Lise Olsen

  Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a compelling new book. These …

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  Harrison the Huckster

  Texas Observer - by Joelle DiPaolo

  The right-wing state rep has led an army of one on a self-righteous crusade in the Texas House. State Representative Brian Harrison is outraged. About …

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  A Day in a Democracy

  Texas Observer - by Justin Miller

  We still have one, after all, so may as well act like it. It’s the sort of day where you can tell that the state Capitol is bustling with civic …

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  The Perils of Offshoring Justice

  Texas Observer - by Orlando J. Pérez

  Texas and the U.S.-El Salvador prison pipeline President Donald Trump’s recent Oval Office photo-op with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who calls …

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  ‘It’s Not a War Zone’: Val Verde County’s Conservative Democratic Sheriff on Misinformation, Immigration

  Texas Observer - by Francesca D’Annunzio

  "Before people start commenting on the border, come visit the border. Right now there's nothing going on." The U.S.-Mexico border is perhaps the most …