Tiny Nordheim, Texas, is reaping the costs of of the South Texas oil boom but little of its profits.
![Hohn Road, near the proposed site for the controversial fracking waste pits.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106224814im_/https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/nordheim3-360x239.jpg)
Tiny Nordheim, Texas, is reaping the costs of of the South Texas oil boom but little of its profits.
The Wendy Davis filibuster started a cascade of events that made the 2014 election especially bad for Texas Democrats.
Gov.-elect Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, Rick Perry and other GOP leaders spoke to an ecstatic crowd in Austin, Texas, on election night.
Voters dealt a devastating blow to Texas Democrats’ hopes of having anything to show for what seemed, for a brief moment, like a turn of fortunes.
In September, Connie Wilson was previously denied a Texas driver’s license because of her same-sex marriage. A month later, she managed to get one. Here’s how she did it.
Very, very few Texans have gotten election identification certificates (EIC), the new state-issued form of photo ID for those who don’t have it—340 Texans, to be precise.
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Greg Abbott’s successful efforts to shut down a voter registration campaign in Harris County is an offense against democracy.
At the comptroller’s debate with Glenn Hegar, Mike Collier gave a strong showing as one of the punchiest members of the Democrats’ good-government ticket.
Voter turnout in Texas is barely up over 2010 levels so far. That doesn’t bode well for Democrats but the Wendy Davis campaign says there’s reason for optimism.
At the University of Texas at Austin today, Wendy Davis continued to attack Greg Abbott and said the state’s low turnout was helping her more than Abbott.