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2025 FRONTeras Magazine Vol. 1 No. 4 Issue She's not even from Texas. Let's start there. Jasmine Crockett is a borrowed native, a St. Louis girl in cowboy boots who showed up, claimed space, and doesn’t play nice with the political gatekeepers of the Lone Star State. That alone offends some people. They expect Southern women to be charming. Polished. At least local. Crockett is none of that. And she makes no effort to fake it. She didn't marry into a legacy or inherit a distr

The day before I met Omar Escobar at my office, I had offered to buy him breakfast, which he respectfully declined. Coffee, he turned down flat, too. That's a shame because food is great deflection when interviewing someone. So when he showed up the next day for our meeting, my hands were empty. He did, however, accept a bottle of water. As soon as he walked into the office, he was met with Juan Gabriel blasting out of my Monster speaker. He chuckled when I turned the volume

Roma ISD has a problem with consistency. The district accepts a football tunnel emblazoned with a candidate's name, then balks at cupcakes with a thank-you note. Letty Garza Galvan donated 300 cupcakes to Roma High School employees for Thanksgiving. Each cupcake included a small note with her name. The district demanded removal of her name, citing electioneering concerns. Garza Galvan, a former Roma ISD Board President with sixteen years of student advocacy, had also donated

I remember watching my boss come in on Fridays, jeans and a Metallica t-shirt, but still professional enough to lug an old but polished leather suitcase with him. He would plop on his chair and recline so far back he looked like he was hanging from a hammock, he would lift his feet on his desk and cover the entirety of his torso behind The Monitor newspaper. All I could see from my corner cubicle was his cowboy boots crisscrossed on his desk. It was the most impressionable th

The statewide spotlight zeroes in on Gocha Allen Ramirez. His reputation fractures. Public outrage piles on. Two rookie assistant district attorneys slipped into view while Ramirez absorbed every harsh glare. Those two — Abel Villarreal Jr. and Alexandria Barrera — emerged from depositions referenced in recent filings. Their versions of events present an odd contrast to the prevailing narrative. Transcripts reveal Ramirez trailed quietly behind them. His role appears peripher

Donald Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar on December 3rd. By December 9th, House Democrats were preparing to restore the Laredo congressman to his position as ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. It took six days for a man accused of selling his influence to foreign interests to reclaim control over more than $65 billion in annual federal spending. Cuellar doesn't just vote on border security. He decides which DHS programs get funded a

President Trump pardoned Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife, Imelda on December 3, wiping away federal bribery and money laundering charges that threatened to send the couple to prison. Cuellar was grateful on social media. On the same day, however, Cuellar filed for reelection as a Democrat. The heartfelt gratitude he expressed to Trump lasted approximately as long as a gentleman's handshake before a duel. By Sunday, Trump was raging on Truth Social, his

President Donald Trump issued a full pardon Wednesday for U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar, the 70-year-old Laredo Democrat who has represented South Texas's 28th Congressional District for over two decades. The pardon extends to Cuellar's wife, Imelda, who faced identical charges in a federal bribery and money laundering case. Federal prosecutors accused the couple of accepting approximately $600,000 in bribes between December 2014 and November 2021 from two foreign entitie

Republicans passed a voting bill Wednesday that could make it impossible for millions of Americans to cast a ballot. The legislation has nothing to do with protecting democracy and everything to do with solving a problem that doesn't exist. The Save America Act, a reworded version of last year's failed SAVE Act, is built on the premise that non-citizens are voting illegally in federal elections by the millions. That claim has never been proven in any court. Federal law alread

Judith Zaffirini started at the bottom of the Texas Senate hierarchy in 1987, ranked number 30 out of 31 members. Thirty-seven years later, she ascended to the highest position when former Senator John Whitmire resigned on December 31, 2023, to become Houston's mayor. She became the first woman Dean of the Senate, succeeding 24 men who held the title since 1909. Senators look to the Dean for guidance on protocol, decorum, traditions, and knowledge. Zaffirini earned this disti

MAGA women have a look. Heavy foundation several shades too dark. Severe contouring that photographs like war paint. Aggressively blonde hair. Exaggerated lashes clumping together like spider legs. Lips pumped full of filler. Spray tans that stop at the jawline. This isn't accidental or incompetence. This isn't a regional beauty trends gone rogue. This is deliberate. This is look is optimized for one specific audience: conservative men. The phenomenon has earned its own Wikip

"My name is Sam Vale. In addition to owning and operating a private port of entry that the rent you pay could support all the others for 1,000 years, it is something we feel efficiencies at the ports are of utmost importance to our border security." Samuel F. Vale delivered those words in 2009 before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Chairman Chuck Schumer had invited him to testify about securing America's borders and points of entry. Vale spoke with authority about customs po

There are moments when words feel too fragile to hold the truth. When a life is taken so suddenly, so publicly, language seems to break under the weight of it. That’s what happened on a Minnesota street, where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed before witnesses, cameras, and a world that already feels too familiar with scenes like this. To call it an act of violence feels too small. To call it shocking feels dishonest, because there’s nothing new about this kind of loss, only

ICE agents dined at a family-run Mexican restaurant in small-town Minnesota, paid their bill, then returned hours later to detain three hardworking employees. The January 14 operation at El Tapatio in Willmar illustrates the expanding reach of immigration enforcement under President Trump's intensified crackdown. Beyond the immediate arrests, it affects the very contributions of workers who sustain our communities, tamale wrappers, salsa stirrers, and table bussers whose labo

Federal lawsuits are piling up against ICE agents, Customs and Border Protection, and Kristi Noem. The constitutional violations aren't ambiguous. Quick civics refresher for anyone who slept through high school: The Fourth Amendment says the government can't search you, seize you, or break into your house without a warrant signed by a judge. Not a suggestion. Not a guideline. A constitutional requirement. The ACLU just filed a federal class action in Minnesota. The defendants

Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar appeared in federal court Thursday to answer charges that he transformed his law enforcement office into a personal profit center during the pandemic. The five-term sheriff faces allegations of conspiracy, theft of federal funds, and money laundering stemming from a scheme prosecutors say ran for more than two years. According to federal prosecutors, Cuellar and his assistant chief, Alejandro Gutierrez, launched Disinfect Pro Master in April

Rio Grande City Grulla ISD spent Wednesday patting itself on the back for fixing problems it should have addressed years ago. Superintendent Guadalupe Garza delivered what the district branded as a "state of the district" address, chronicling twelve months of tackling basic infrastructure failures that accumulated under previous leadership. Garza opened with calculated bluntness. "One year ago, Rio Grande City Grulla ISD began a reset, not with slogans, not with excuses, but

The 25th Amendment has resurfaced in political discourse with the fervor of a bad penny, and this time the calls are coming from inside the Democratic house. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts sparked the latest round, posting a terse directive to social media after Trump sent a text message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. The message linked Trump's aggressive pursuit of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump's message to Støre read: "Consi

Beto O'Rourke confirmed he hasn't endorsed a candidate in the Texas Democratic Senate primary between James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett. The clarification came during an interview with the Houston Chronicle's Texas Take podcast, where O'Rourke framed his current neutrality as respect for democratic process rather than personal preference. "No, no. Look, we're the party that says it believes in democracy and self-government and the ability for people to freely and fairly cho

President Trump stood in the White House briefing room Tuesday, marking his first anniversary back in office, and dropped a statement that was resounding. While defending his administration's aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, he noted that Border Patrol agents are predominantly Hispanic. According to Customs and Border Protection data, over half of Border Patrol agents serving on the southern border identify as Hispanic. Applications surged 70 percen