Letiicia Gutierrez like Jack and the Beanstalk may topple the Giant. Last month, I wrote about Alex Mealer’s campaign in Texas’s 9th Congressional District. Mealer has made herself a champion
For years, Black and Mexican-American children attended West Oso schools under a system controlled largely by Anglo trustees. The district segregated Black students, Mexican-American families had little political power, and
With the help of ChatGPT and hours of work, we created the 1860 census for Starr County, Texas. If you want to use it, it is here for you to
When I began tracing the Barrera side of my family, I expected to find baptisms, marriages, births, and deaths. What I did not expect was to find my ancestors already
West Oso has never been one of Texas’ wealthy school districts. It served working-class families on the edge of Corpus Christi, many of them Mexican American and Black, and much
Listen to the story Going backward has been the best way to trace my ancestors: census records, birth records, baptisms, and marriages. Along the way, I found that my father
Republicans control Texas. They control the governor’s office, the Legislature and the agencies that issue licenses, regulate businesses and enforce state law. Their party also controls the White House and
Listen to the Story When my third-great-grandfather José María Barrera rode with Colonel Santos Benavides during the Civil War, he was serving under a man from my own extended border
Meet Bo French, the Republican nominee for a statewide office in Texas. French is not some anonymous internet troll sitting outside the political system. He is the Republican nominee for
American history remembers Francis Marion as the “Swamp Fox,” a Revolutionary War hero who used surprise attacks, informants, hidden routes, and the protection of difficult country to frustrate a stronger
A Boy Growing Up in Molina Growing up in Molina in the early 1960s meant knowing where you belonged. We did not have organized gangs with officers, membership cards, or
Amazing what $20 billion that should have been ours buys, with Abbott’s political position at stake. Miller provides the children; Abbott provides the warehousing of them. The language used by
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The image on the left: I prefer the nickname Sticky Finger Paxton; it is simple and easy to remember. Republican PACs are throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into political
Listen to the story In December 1961, Molina finally got something the City of Corpus Christi had promised years earlier: sewer service. For families in Molina, that meant much more
Listen to this story Molina: Annexed to Stop the “Slums,” Then Told to Pay for Plumbing The image on the left is from a photograph in the Corpus Christi Times,
At the bottom of my conversations with the AI, ChatGPT gives me a warning: “ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.” Apparently, someone in the United States military needed to
Greg Abbott has spent years presenting himself as the man who does not need Washington. Texas would secure its own border, fight the federal government in court and go its
Harris County property owners are facing a major tax increase. That is real. The county’s proposed tax increase has been described as roughly 12%, and critics are right to ask
The bloodiest battle probably ever fought on Texas soil, and it is not in our Texas history books. Massacres on both sides; an entire army wiped out. Makes the Alamo
