Iconic Texas-based clothing maker Williamson-Dickie made headlines last year when it announced it was closing its last U.S. factory, in Uvalde. While that plant has been repurposed and still employs several residents, the city is grappling over changes to a key partner in its community.
Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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Texas considering whether to hand driver’s license, citizenship information to Census Bureau
The Texas Department of Public Safety received a request for the information earlier this month but has taken no action.
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As its U.S. House members of color depart, Texas GOP grapples with its lack of diversity
Should Republicans actively recruit candidates of color? The party stands divided.
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Do you plan to vote in Texas’ November elections? The time to register is now
Texans hoping to participate in the Nov. 5 election have until Oct. 7 to register to vote.
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Homeless in Texas
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to intervene in Austin’s “homelessness crisis”
Abbott’s office lamented reports of “violence, used needles, and feces littering the streets of Austin and endangering Texas residents.”
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Dis-Integration
Hear how this Texas school district found itself at risk of returning to a segregated past
A new audio series, a collaboration between The Texas Tribune and 1A, explores why students of color in Longview ISD still don’t have the same educational opportunities as white students.
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Redistricting Texas
How a decade of voting rights fights led to fewer redistricting safeguards for Texas voters of color
In a state with a long history of discrimination, lawmakers on Tuesday will kick off the 2021 round of political mapmaking — the first in nearly half a century without federal oversight.
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El Paso shooting
Gov. Greg Abbott says “mistakes were made” in his fundraising letter before the El Paso shooting
The governor’s comments come after reports emerged of a two-page fundraising mailer that warned of a liberal plan to “to transform Texas — and our entire country — through illegal immigration.”
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Snubbed by Texas lawmakers, local officials look to children for help to avoid a census undercount
Hoping to avoid an undercount of thousands of Hispanic and black Texans, Dallas, Harris and Hidalgo counties believe getting children engaged can bring families to participate in the 2020 census.
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El Paso shooting
State leaders are looking for solutions after El Paso. Texas Latinos say they can start by changing the words they use.
“Words not only matter but in today’s world, words are having more and more significant existential consequences in our society,” said Miguel Solis, a Dallas school board member.