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Zohran Mamdani is favored to win New York City’s mayoral race on Tuesday, and a few Texans are not happy about it. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took to X yesterday with a conservative talking point implying that New Yorkers will flee the city if Mamdani is elected. “After the
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the number of flight delays at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. There were 1,000 delays over the weekend into Monday, not 10,000. The Barbed Wire regrets the error. Three-hour wait times. Missed flights. TSA lines stretching out the
In Samantha Casiano’s house, Sundays are for family. And for the last two years, that’s included a trip to the cemetery. Every week, they visit her daughter Halo’s gravesite. It sits in the middle of their small East Texas hometown. A gray placard lies on the ground
Leqaa Kordia, 32, attended her asylum hearing via webcam on Thursday, Oct. 23. The blue light of the monitor displayed multiple windows framing her lawyer, the judge, and the government prosecutor. Her team laid out an argument it had made multiple times already: If Kordia, who is Palestinian, is deported
Early voting is underway for the Nov. 4 election, and you may be asking yourself, what’s the point? Don’t worry, you’re in good company. Texans love to gripe about property taxes, potholes, and school funding, but when it’s time to vote for the people who actually
Gov. Greg Abbott admitted in an X post on Sunday that Texas is purging professors with “leftist ideologies” — and people are not happy. Abbott’s directive fits into a pattern of faculty changes and government interference on campuses across the state, including the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&
A pile of broken, colorful concrete pieces was all that remained of Houston’s rainbow crosswalk as the sun rose on Monday. Construction crews tore up Texas’ first gay pride crosswalk, a beloved feature of the historically LGBT Montrose neighborhood, in the early hours of the morning. The crosswalk, which
The 379th Criminal District Court in San Antonio was bulging with people last Friday, so filled with journalists, police, attorneys, and staff that bailiffs shooed those without a seat out the door. People wanted to see, first-hand, the unprecedented trial that was set to begin. Before the judge called
While politicians and judges debate the legality of Texas National Guard troops’ presence in Illinois, columnists and creators are wondering: “Are we in a civil war?” Here’s some background to that terrifying question: About 200 Texas troops arrived in Illinois Oct. 8 after they were called by President Trump
In the conservative Christian movement, Charlie Kirk was more than a far-right activist — to many, including Attorney General Ken Paxton, the self-described free speech advocate who founded Turning Point USA was a martyr who died for his cause. That sentiment was on full display Tuesday night at an
Supporters of Robert Morris, founder of one of the largest church congregations in the country, appear unshaken in their devotion to the former Texas pastor — despite the fact that he pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he sexually abused a 12-year-old girl in the 1980s. Morris, 64,
“Y’all Street” is gearing up for a bull market — with longer horns. Last Tuesday, the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) announced it received approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate as a national securities exchange. The SEC go-ahead means that the stock exchange is