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Guillen has appeared on the ballot in Starr County for more than two decades. Ryan Guillen grew up working at his family's feed store in Rio Grande City. That was his first education in how Starr County works — who needs something, and who has it. He went on to earn a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Texas A&M University, briefly taught high school agriculture, and then pursued public office. Guillen was elected to the Texas House in 2002 at 24 years old and took office

USDA has confirmed six cases of New World screwworm in Texas livestock Ken Paxton has spent the last year positioning himself as the Trump administration's most reliable Texas ally. That positioning now sits alongside an active screwworm outbreak spreading through South and Central Texas ranch country. USDA has confirmed six cases of New World screwworm in Texas livestock since June 3, with confirmed infections in Zavala, La Salle, Gillespie, and Edwards counties. The Texas A

Jeff Bezos Says Billionaire Taxes Won’t Save the Working Class During the conversation with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, rejects claims accusing him of avoiding taxes and says he pays “billions of dollars” in taxes. Bezos also argues larger taxes on billionaires fail to resolve broader economic pressures facing working Americans. Later in the interview, he rejects claims tying Airbnb to rising rent prices and points toward New York City’s rest

History, Politics, and the Power of the Eraser In Texas, education is never just about education. Ay no, mijo, it’s about power, money, values, and who gets to hold the red pen over history before kids even learn how to spell it. Right now, public schools across the state are less like quiet learning spaces and more like family cookouts where everyone showed up ready to argue. You’ve got lawmakers debating vouchers, school boards side-eyeing curriculum changes, and teachers j

Mexican Officials Cooperate Against Their Own Party The New York Times has reported that at least a dozen elected officials, among them governors and members of Congress, many affiliated with Mexico's governing party, have approached United States authorities to discuss sharing information implicating fellow party members. Eight people with direct knowledge of these discussions spoke with the newspaper. The discussions began in the weeks following the indictment of ten curren

Gina Hinojosa Takes the School Fight Statewide Texas school districts are closing campuses at a pace public school advocates describe as a crisis. Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for Texas governor, launched Team Texas Public Schools on Monday, a nonpartisan organizing program designed to mobilize parents, teachers, and administrators across party lines to fight school closures statewide. Hinojosa unveiled the program at Pease Elementary in Austin, a campus opened in 18

The Outgoing Commissioner and the Democrat Who Agrees With Him Sid Miller has never been mistaken for a political moderate. The three-term Texas agriculture commissioner built his career on MAGA loyalty, Trump endorsements, and a public persona that thrived on confrontation. His announcement that he would share a stage with Clayton Tucker, the Democratic nominee running to replace him, landed accordingly. The two are scheduled to appear together at a forum on June 11 at the M

The Man Who Saved Ken Paxton Just Endorsed the Guy Running Against Him Dan Cogdell knows Ken Paxton better than most people in Texas politics ever will. He sat across courtroom tables from prosecutors for nearly a decade, first when Paxton hired him in 2015 after his securities fraud indictment, and later when he served on Paxton's defense team in the 2023 impeachment trial that ended in acquittal. The securities fraud case ran nine years before prosecutors dropped the charge

On the morning of July 4, 2025, the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. Girls as young as 7 were asleep in cabins fewer than 225 feet from the riverbank. Camp Mystic had no written evacuation plan, no emergency drills, no walkie-talkies, and a policy prohibiting campers from keeping phones in their cabins. Twenty-five children and two counselors were killed in the flood. For about two weeks, the country was inconsolable. This is not a new story. It is, by now, a patte

There Is No Democracy Without Journalism Scott Pelley has been shot at. He spent nights in waterlogged foxholes in the desert, filed dispatches from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait, and did all of it in service of an informed American public. When Donald Trump called him "fake news" and "the enemy of the people," Pelley did not retreat into polite hedging. Pelley joined CBS News in 1989 after years covering local Texas politics and anchored the CBS Evening News from 2011 to 201

The Department of Education has announced this week that it will hand off the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, known to insiders as OSERS, to the Department of Health and Human Services. OSERS oversees about $15.5 billion in funding for early intervention and K-12 special education services. That money pays for speech therapists, classroom aides, and the IEP coordinators who keep schools out of court. It now belongs to an agency that has never administ

Paxton's DOGE Loyalty Now Has a Cost, and Texas Cattle Are Paying It Ken Paxton has spent the last year positioning himself as the Trump administration's most reliable Texas ally. That positioning now sits alongside an active screwworm outbreak spreading through South and Central Texas ranch country. USDA has confirmed six cases of New World screwworm in Texas livestock since June 3, with confirmed infections in Zavala, La Salle, Gillespie, and Edwards counties. The Texas Ani

The Most Republican Democrat in Congress Faces the Most Democratic Republican in Texas Tano Tijerina spent a decade winning Webb County elections as a Democrat. He won in 2014, 2018, and 2022, each time under the same party banner, each time in a county that had been blue so long that the color felt geological. Then Trump carried Webb County in November 2024, and Tijerina announced on Fox & Friends that he had always been a conservative and that the Democratic Party lost him

What Happens When the Powerful Stop Playing by the Rules A quote often attributed to Bob Marley warns: “You’ll never find justice in a world where criminals make the laws.” For many Americans, that sentence no longer sounds dramatic. It sounds familiar. Across the country, people are living through a growing distrust of institutions that once carried unquestioned authority. In communities large and small, people have always understood that justice often moves differently for

Starr County's Arroyos Have Been Flooding Residential Streets for Over Thirty Years On the evening of September 6, 1993, Yolanda Teran D. Martinez was driving through Roma, Texas, when Arroyo Roma swallowed her car. A thunderstorm had dropped nearly five inches of rain in ninety minutes. The arroyo, dry most of the year, became a current strong enough to carry a Ford LTD off the road and into the water in minutes. Three of her passengers survived because neighbors ran outside

Samuel García's Family Law Firm Has a Lot of Explaining to Do Samuel García spent five years building a political identity around being the governor who doesn't govern like a politician. The motorsports appearances, the social media presence, the cultivated image of a young technocrat above the machinery of Mexican state corruption. On June 12, the Anti-Corruption Commission of the Nuevo León legislature voted six to one to open impeachment proceedings against him for the all

Why Cities Stay Blue and What Republicans Are Doing About It Republicans have spent decades insisting that Democratic governance destroys cities. But no one can prove their point. As of March 2026, 67 of the 100 largest cities in the United States have Democratic mayors. That number has held steady since at least 2016, fluctuating by only a handful of seats in either direction regardless of national political conditions. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia,

Trump's 2008 Standard for Impeachment Applies Directly to His Own Presidency In October 2008, Donald Trump sat down with CNN's Wolf Blitzer and said something most Republican politicians wouldn't dare put on record. According to Trump, Bush had earned impeachment not through partisan grievance, but through deliberate deception that dragged the country into war. Trump praised Nancy Pelosi in the same breath, describing her as "a very impressive person," before pivoting to a wi

Trump's PAC Sells Access Using Fallen Soldiers' Coffins On March 7, 2026, six Army Reservists killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait came home to Dover Air Force Base in flag-draped transfer cases. President Donald Trump attended the dignified transfer. Before walking onto the tarmac, he put on a white baseball cap, gold-embroidered with "USA" on the front and "45-47" on the side, available for $55 on his merchandise website. He did not remove it. Five days later, his PA

The Man Who Can't Read From a Teleprompter Has Concerns About Dyslexia President Donald Trump has a new talking point, and he is committing to it with the kind of fervor usually reserved for grievances about crowd sizes and election returns. Over the course of a single week in March 2026, Trump told anyone within earshot, at least four separate times, that California Governor Gavin Newsom is unfit for the presidency because he has dyslexia. Speaking to reporters in the Oval O