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How Texas’s First Openly Gay Legislator Did the Unimaginable
Decades ago this man did my family a kindness that we will never be able to repay, at the moment of our greatest vulnerability. Now, as he struggled to get out of his chair and reached for his cane, I...

Word Wrangler: October 31, 2026
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Greg Abbott Hired an Election Denier to Protect Texas Elections. He’s Using the Job to Attack Muslims.
One evening in early September, Nate Schatzline stood onstage before a group of right-wing activists, eager to tell them about all he was doing to save America. Speaking in his new role as a top advis...

We Sent a Grown Man to Five Texas Corn Mazes to See How Fast He’d Escape
The trepidation was mounting as I neared the first stop on my early-fall corn maze odyssey. Though it was a beautiful morning in the Hill Country, a sense of foreboding hung over my rented Toyota Priu...