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To the Texas Observer Community, I’m writing to you as chair of the Texas Democracy Foundation, the nonprofit publisher of the Texas Observer, to update you on our status. I am happy to report that, today, the Observer is in a far better position tha
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‘Drag Is So Healing’: Austin’s Queens Defy Ban
In an orange prison jumpsuit and chains, a tall, lean drag queen writhed to a cover of “War Pigs” by Brass Against, which sounds like someone swapped Black Sabbath’s lead singer for a woman and added a highly caffeinated marching band. As she lip-syn
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Dark History
My great-grandfather, José-María Arana, was a racist. After the United States barred Chinese men from immigrating under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, tens of thousands sought a new life in Mexico, where they faced no warmer a welcome as they est

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