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New Trump Immigration Rule Could Devastate Rural Hospitals
Texas, California and Nevada could see particularly chilling effects for their immigrant residents.
![Church in Fort Davis, Texas, at the base of the Davis Mountains.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/12/602A8890-400x300.jpg)
The Fracking Industry Encroaches on Southwest Texas
Texas’ latest oil boom has brought skyrocketing air, noise and light pollution to the area.
![People wait in line to vote at a polling place on the first day of early voting on October 22, 2018, in Houston, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/2018_1106-texas-400x300.jpg)
New Evidence Shows Texas Senate Race Was Vulnerable to Manipulation
Was the critical contest between Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz counted correctly?
![Shiloh Treatment Center, shown in an aerial photograph, is on the same campus as the Daystar Residential Inc. facility, which the state of Texas shut down in 2011. A judge has ordered immigrant children removed from Shiloh and told the government to stop drugging them without consent.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/10/EDIT-DJI_0003-1200x675-400x300.jpg)
Immigrant Children Still Being Drugged at Shelter Despite Judge’s Order
A federal judge told the government to stop nonconsensually medicating immigrant children held at a Texas shelter.
![An official polling location sign stands outside a voting center on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in Dallas, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/10/GettyImages-513199996-400x300.jpg)
Reports of Voter Intimidation at Polling Places in Texas
An election official in Dallas County says it’s the worst she’s seen in decades.
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Officials Literally “Blow Hot Air” to Mitigate Heat in Texas Prisons
Several Texas prisoners told Truthout they were threatened after asking for respite from extreme heat.
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New Gulf Coast Fossil Fuel Projects Produce as Much Pollution as Coal
The projects release as much pollution as 29 coal-fired power plants running round the clock.
![Republican US Senator Ted Cruz and Democratic US Representative Beto O'Rourke in their first debate for Texas U.S. Senate in McFarlin Auditorium at SMU on September 21, 2018, in Dallas, Texas.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/09/GettyImages-1037465612-400x300.jpg)
Is the Lone Star State Moving Left?
The surprising success of Beto O’Rourke’s Democratic campaign for the Senate is not the cause of Texans moving leftward.
![Sen. Ted Cruz talks with reporters after the Senate Policy luncheons in the Capitol on July 17, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/09/GettyImages-1000799900-400x300.jpg)
Ted Cruz Might Lose, and Other Giddy Tidbits From Election 2018
There's something happening here, and it ain't all Trump.
![Hilda Ramirez, 29, and her son Ivan, 10, arrived in the United States in August of 2014. After spending almost a year at a for-profit immigrant detention jail in Karnes City, Texas, they've now lived in St. Andrews Presbyterian Church for a year.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/09/GettyImages-633644496-400x300.jpg)
Trump to Withdraw From “Flores” Protections to Detain Families Indefinitely
Legal limits meant to protect migrant children are being attacked on two fronts.