🌵 Somebody Finally Wandered Into the Restaurant
Gina Hinojosa is within striking distance of Greg Abbott. Plus: Bo French, and a No. 1 Longhorns team.
Wild Texas Newsletter
Texas is one big, wild place. Our weekly roundup keeps you in the know. All killer, no filler. It's Texas news worth your time.
Wild Texas
Texas is one big, wild place. Our weekly roundup keeps you in the know. All killer, no filler. It's Texas news worth your time.
🎨 The Passive-Aggressive Power of Oil Paint
Howdy gang, it’s Brian Gaar with The Barbed Wire. And welcome back to Texas, where the courts have become a judicial choose-your-own-adventure, Greg Abbott is having second thoughts about the surveillance-camera empire his state helped build, Tarrant County is cutting polling places, and Texas is
Greg Abbott Is Obsessed with Feet
Our government here in Texas had a busy week finding new things to be mad about
Can You Still Buy Weed? And Other Texas Questions
Hey y'all, it's Brian Gaar with The Barbed Wire. And good morning to everyone who woke up wondering: Can I still buy weed? Is my salad trying to kill me? Is the power grid about to be eaten by AI? Is Ken Paxton actually losing? And
Ken Paxton Would Like a Word (But Not That One)
The AG walked out of his own press conference. Plus: new witness statements challenge ICE's account of a Houston shooting, and Canada quarantines Texas livestock.
☎️ The Voter-Fraud Tip Line Comes for Its Founder
Paxton's own voting address is under scrutiny, the Bible's headed to Texas classrooms, ICE kills a man in Houston, Democrats float $1,500 checks — and flesh-eating flies enter the feral-hog debate.
Camp Mystic files for bankruptcy, a heated Senate race, one missing giraffe🦒
Howdy y’all, it’s Brian Gaar with The Barbed Wire. Welcome back to Texas, which continues to be the only state capable of producing all of these headlines at the same time. Nearly a year after the deadly Hill Country floods, Camp Mystic is filing for bankruptcy, and the
Flesh-Eating Worms, Hemp Chaos, and a Blue Texas?
Democrats think they might finally flip Texas, state officials are fighting over flesh-eating worms, hemp retailers are once again trying to determine whether their businesses exist in a legal dimension, and Texas Tech is embroiled in a controversy.
🗣️The Texans Who Refused To Shut Up
This week’s stories are about the Texans who built communities, whether that meant opening Black-owned bookstores during a racial reckoning or organizing queer mutual aid in Dallas, decades before Stonewall.