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![A worker cleans the inside of a train car near the derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 16, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/GettyImages-1247204532-400x300.jpg)
Locals Alarmed Over Plan to Inject Toxic Ohio Wastewater Underground in Texas
Hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic water from East Palestine are being disposed of in Harris County, Texas.
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Armed Community Groups Are Defending Texas Drag Queens From Christian Fascists
LGBTQ defenders in Texas are mobilizing to protect their communities amid sustained far right attacks on drag shows.
![Aisha Thomas (L) learns teaching skills in her classroom in Nevitt Elementary School, in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 26, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/GettyImages-1244462866-400x300.jpg)
School Voucher Programs Are Hurting Special Needs Students They Claim to Help
Arizona's school vouchers have stripped millions from public school budgets. Now Texas legislators want to follow suit.
![Three RU-486 Mifeprex abortion pills are held in a hand.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/2023_0207-abortion-pills-400x300.jpg)
GOP Aims to Paint Telehealth Providers of Abortion Pills as “Drug Traffickers”
Meanwhile, a lawsuit in Texas threatens to take the abortion medication mifepristone off the market in every state.
![People fish in front of defunct oil drilling rigs in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel at Aransas Pass in Port Aransas, Texas, on March 11, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/02/GettyImages-1130718680-400x300.jpg)
Tax Break for Big Polluters Is Also Starving Public Schools in Texas
In December, legislators killed a controversial tax program known as Chapter 313, but its effects will last decades.
![A clinic escort assists a patient at a Planned Parenthood Health Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/01/2023_0109-planned-parenthood-400x300.jpg)
Texas Lawsuit Against Planned Parenthood Challenges Medicaid Reimbursements
Planned Parenthood is asking a judge for a ruling in their favor in a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas.
![A protester holds a sign reading "When trans rights are under attack what do we do? Stand up fight back." Minnesotans hold a rally at the state capitol to support trans kids in Minnesota, Texas, and around the country on March 6, 2022, in St Paul, Minnesota.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/01/GettyImages-1385207854-400x300.jpg)
State Legislatures Are Now Targeting Health Care for Transgender Adults
Legislators in at least seven states have prefiled bills that would restrict or even criminalize gender affirming care.
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Progressives Must Not Concede School Board Elections to the Right
Austin school board victories show how progressive organizing can beat anti-LGBTQ candidates.
![SpaceX founder Elon Musk during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on August 25, 2022, in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/12/2022_2412-Elon-Musk-400x300.jpg)
Texas Tribe Sues Elon Musk to Protect Sacred Sites From SpaceX
The planned expansion of a SpaceX launch center may destroy ancient village sites and their artifacts and human remains.
![A person reads at the Rice University Library on April 26, 2022, in Houston, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/12/2022_1222-library-400x300.jpg)
Dept of Education Opens Inquiry Into Texas District That Banned LGBTQ Books
The district's superintendent was recorded expressing anti-trans viewpoints.