People don't want to register their children to school. They don't want to do groceries. They don't even want to stop by the ...

Organization Overview The Texas Observer is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in Austin, TX. Since 1954, we’ve delivered powerful reporting that matters. We publish a bimonthly ...

In the early hours of April 1, state and federal police raided a party at an Airbnb in a wealthy Austin suburb, arresting nearly 50 people including nine children. The participating agencies—the ...

The attorney general's office once aggressively pursued fraudsters targeting immigrants. Not on Ken Paxton's watch.

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And one Texan says the body’s decision “retriggered” the pain of losing his wife, who counts among the preventable deaths ...

Austin officers killed an unarmed 17-year-old at a park last month in what the chief swiftly deemed "suicide by police." Some ...

Last, I’m excited to welcome Jason Buch, another longtime contributor, to the masthead as a special investigative ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2025 issue. The five members of the Navarro County Commissioners Court had rarely seen such a large audience for their Tuesday meeting as they saw in ...