Texas

Florida Just Banned License Plate Readers From State Roads. A Texas Deputy Had Already Used the Same Company's Cameras -- 83,000 of Them, Nationwide -- to Track Down a Woman Who'd Had an Abortion.

700 Rural Hospitals Are Now at Risk of Closing. The States With the Most at Risk Voted by the Widest Margins for the Law Doing It.

San Antonio Is the River Walk and the Border. Underneath Both Sits Thirty Years of Invisible Commerce — a Company Almost Nobody's Heard Of, a University Nobody Credits, and Now the Largest State Cyber Department in America.

Elliott Management Forced Change at Two Different Dallas Companies in Five Years. Both Times, it Sold and Left Before Anyone Could Prove the Changes Made Either Company Better.

Texas Built Its Power Grid to Stay Outside Federal Regulation. In 2021, That Choice Helped a Storm Kill Hundreds. In 2026, the Same Failure Happened Again.

Texas Instruments Got $1.6 Billion in Federal Chip Money, Finalized a Month Before Trump Took Office. Under Trump, It Announced $10 Billion More For the Same Plant — With No New Federal Money Attached.

Two People Own 37 Blocks of Downtown Fort Worth. In 2022, the City Manager Recused Himself Over Their Private Jet. In 2025, They Hired Him.

Meta Just Agreed to Pay $16.68 Billion for What Its Algorithm Was Built to Do. Every Major Platform Built the Same Thing.

Houston Is Called the Energy Capital of the World. It's Also Home to the Largest Medical Complex on Earth — 106,000 People on One Campus.

Austin Voted Itself "The Live Music Capital of the World" in 1991. A Single Company Has Since Invested More in the City Than That.

Texas Joined the Union for Slavery. California Joined to Cancel It Out.

Texas and California were Mexican