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Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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How Democrats Can Come Back: Three Views
How can the party of LBJ, Ann Richards and Henry Cisneros regain its footing? We asked three prominent Democratic strategists for their take.
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Guest Column: Don’t Wait for Demographics
The most important obstacle Texas Democrats must overcome has less to do with candidates, competence, money or strategy than it does with confidence.
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Guest Column: Demographics, and Ideas
If Texas Democrats want to magnify the advantages of a shifting demographic, they need to better practice the fine art of persuasion.
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DHS Refutes Lamar Smith’s Immigration “Stonewalling” Allegations
Responding to “stonewalling” allegations by U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, Homeland Security officials said they are spending hours compiling immigration arrest data. If it doesn’t please the congressman’s committee, DHS could be held in contempt.
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Two Mayors, Two Views on Using War-Zone Equipment on Border
Mayors of cities along the Texas-Mexico border intent on protecting the images of their communities are drawing vastly different conclusions about a proposal that would bring in equipment from overseas war zones to bolster border-security efforts.
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Guest Column: Call Them “Unauthorized”
Whether we use the word illegal or unauthorized, alien or migrant, or whether we call it a banana, the only thing that matters is whether, and when, we enact meaningful, and comprehensive, immigration reform.
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Guest Column: Call Them “Illegal”
I suppose as a legal immigrant to this country at the age of 4, I might have a different perspective from those who have not had at least part of those terms applied to them during their lives.
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Guest Column: Call them ‘Unauthorized’
Whether we use the word illegal or unauthorized, alien or migrant, or whether we “call it a banana,” the only thing that matters is whether, and when, we enact meaningful, and comprehensive, immigration reform.
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Guest Column: Call Them ‘Illegal’
I suppose as a legal immigrant to this country at the age of four, I might have a different perspective than someone who has not had at least part of those terms applied to them during their life.
