Ken Paxtonโs vote harvesting investigation in South Texas renews questions over politiqueras
Since the 2020 election, Texas Republicans have dramatically rewritten the stateโs voting laws, which have made some long-standing practices illegal.
Warrants detail allegations that led to search of Democratic candidate for Texas House
The Texas attorney generalโs office searched the home of Cecilia Castellano and a Democratic legislative aide. It said itโs investigating vote harvesting. Activists called it โintimidation.โ
COVID-19 cases at a Texas immigration detention center soared. Now, town leaders want answers
PEARSALL, Texas โ This article is copublished with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. The first death due to COVID-19 inside an immigration detention center was reported Wednesday. That town also has a large detention center, run by CoreCivic, another giant in the for-profit detention business. Immediately he became interested in the for-profit detention center visible from his home and started asking questions. โItโs been horrible,โ said Yanet Cabrera, whose 54-year-old mother was recently transferred from Pearsall to another detention center in Laredo.