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In yet another example of why the enormous differences between the two parties matter, we have U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes. Appointed by Reagan, Hughes is an open racist and doesn't care who knows it: Jitendra Shah, an Indian-American engineer, sued the Texas Department of...

Brownsville

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On September 19, 2013

César Díaz's essay on the difficulties of growing up in Brownsville and then going off to college from a poor family and then living in white Austin is your read.

Measles

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On August 25, 2013

Who could have guessed that anti-vaccination idiocy would lead to illness? A measles outbreak in Texas traces to a congregation of a megachurch whose leader, Kenneth Copeland, reportedly has warned.

Can the AFL-CIO Organize Texas?

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On August 25, 2013
Very interesting. I do agree with the belief that Texas is uncharted country for progressives and Democrats more broadly. For the labor movement, this makes tremendous sense. For one, despite the extremist right-wing politics of Texas, Latinos are so dominant in the border and are...

Worker Centers

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On August 11, 2013
Stephen Greenhouse has an outstanding article on worker centers, particularly the Texas-based Workers Defense Project, that provide union-like groups to some of the poorest workers in the United States, especially undocumented immigrants. Worker centers have provided a lot of inspiration in the last few years...
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