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The news keep rolling in and everyone seems to think that America invaded Venezuela for oil. Oil. Always oil. Nothing but oil. Sure. And Putin annexed Crimea for the beaches. Venezuela sits on the largest proven oil reserves on Earth, 13% more than Saudi Arabia. But Venezuelan crude emerges thick as tar, heavy with sulfur, demanding specialized infrastructure that barely exists outside U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Saudi petroleum flows light and sweet. The difference matters b

Starr County has spent the last decade clawing its way toward stability and growth, and that makes what is happening with State Loop 195 around Roma even more infuriating. Starr is finally seeing rising GDP, higher property values, and new public investment, while Roma is being positioned as collateral damage in someone else’s version of “progress.” Over roughly the last decade, Starr County has seen measurable economic growth, even if it still lags the state overall. County

Let's go back to November 4, 2024. Let's close our eyes and imagine... what if. Kamala Harris would have inched those 1.5 percentage points in the popular vote. Kamala Harris would gotten those 230,000 votes across three states: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. She would have flipped just 229,726 votes in the right combination across those three states, she would have won the Electoral College. What if Kamala Harris would have been our 47th President of the United State

Many Americans claim that when they see Barack Obama, they remember "a time in America where there was unity." That's adorable. It's also complete bullshit. Is Obama cute? Sure. Charming? Always. Articulate and smart? Funny and witty? You get the point. Obama is everything, but the portrait of unity he is not. The president dubbed the Deporter-in-Chief might as well be called the Divider-in-Chief too. The last time America had anything resembling presidential unity, George H.

For the first time in its 116-year history, the NAACP has denied an invitation to a sitting U.S. president. Donald Trump will not be welcome at this year’s national convention. The organization’s president, Derrick Johnson, made the decision clear and unapologetic: “Our mission is to advance civil rights, and the current president has made clear that his mission is to eliminate civil rights.” This isn’t about partisanship. The NAACP has invited presidents from both major part

Criticizing a government agency online has always carried social risks. But now, under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), it may carry legal ones too. According to watchdog groups and federal contracting records, ICE is actively hiring private surveillance firms to monitor digital spaces for “negative sentiment” about the agency and its leadership. Posts flagged as critical may result in data collection that goes far beyond usernames and hashtags. This isn’t spec

The Republican Party has Project 2025. The Democrats, not to be outdone, came up with their own ambitious proposal—a policy buffet cooked up by consultants, warmed over by think tanks, and served cold to a nation already halfway out the door—and what is it called? Project 2029. For years, they ranted and raved about how terrifying Project 2025 was going to be—and then all of a sudden, they thought a Temu version of it would sit well with exhausted Democrats. It’s like they op

On a quiet September night in 2022, Jose Luis Martinez left Franky Flav’z in Weslaco. He was heading home. Instead, he ended up dead—his face so mangled that responding officers described the skin as “hanging to the side of his head.” He was 47. The two-vehicle crash at the 1300 block of South International Boulevard was called in at 11:26 p.m. on September 29, 2022. The man charged with causing Martinez’ death was Clayton Wayne Neuhaus, a 26-year-old from Mercedes with famil