Jeremy Schwartz

In one of the more surprising moves of the just completed legislative session, Texas lawmakers significantly increased oversight and inspections of migrant farmworker housing, the culmination of nearly a decade of legislative attempts sparked by a 2016 @statesman investigation.

He learned that Venezuelans inside the same #Texas immigration detention center were sent to #Guantanamo. He asked his wife to record in case something happened. A month later, he was among the 230+ men the U.S. sent to the Salvadoran prison #CECOT. youtu.be/UHBmbQCOYzQ

📢 #ComunicadoCristosal | Tras 25 años de trabajo en El Salvador, suspendemos operaciones en el país ante la escalada de criminalización. Nuestra labor continúa, reorganizada y comprometida, desde Guatemala y Honduras. Para más información. ⬇️ #CristosalNoSeDetiene

NEW: IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit -- granting them an exemption from a 70 year-old ban on politicking by tax-exempt groups. nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/…

Why did this seem to take Texas by such surprise? "Everybody got the NWS forecast," Nim Kidd says. "It did not predict the amount of rain that we saw." Says state emergency ops center began briefing yesterday on the possibility of floods and was in contact with local officials.

This is our first joint piece as part of a novel collaboration with five Texas newsrooms to examine how power is wielded in Texas: How Changes to Texas Law Will Help Elon Musk’s Companies propublica.org/article/elon-m… @lmcgaughy @KUT @propublica @TexasTribune

Troops on border deployment in the Big Bend are filling up local hotels - a boon for the economy, but not for local tourism tax revenue - federal govt. doesn't have to pay "hotel occupancy taxes." Nice one from @bigbendsentinel: bigbendsentinel.com/2025/07/02/are…

TX politicos built a brand against illegal immigration. Yet unlike other GOP states, they refuse mandating E-Verify for companies. Doing so, said an ex-GOP state rep, "would create even worse problems. Do you want to go to a restaurant & use paper plates?" propublica.org/article/texas-…

.@propublica wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its amazing coverage of the consequences of abortion bans, showcasing the women who died. It’s the second year in a row in which ProPublica has won the Pulitzer Gold Medal! 🎉

BREAKING: A.G. Bondi reverses Garland policy against subpoenaing journalists. Stating that leaks "undermine President Trump’s policies," Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that "the news media ‘must answer subpoenas’ when authorized." Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/bondi-revers…

The result of a three decade push. @JinATX had a definitive story about the long path to vouchers: propublica.org/article/texas-…

Texas senators could soon vote on a bill that would drastically limit how the state's public universities teach their students about history, race and inequality. #txlege texastribune.org/2025/04/10/tex…

I am very excited to announce that @propublica & the @TexasTribune will partner with these five local newsrooms in Texas over the next year to produce accountability journalism : @elpasomatters @FortWorthReport @HoustonChron @KUT & @wfaa . Read more: propublica.org/atpropublica/f…

Dispatch from Texas: One ultra-conservative school board is removing CHAPTERS from textbooks that were already approved by the state’s conservative State Board of Education: propublica.org/article/texas-… @JinATX @dankeemahill w/ @TexasTribune