Featured story: “Right now ... we’re seeing what authoritarianism is about in its ugliest way. We’re seeing people being stopped on the street being picked up at their workplace, thrown into vans and taken God knows where without due process.”

The Texas Observer

Can Economic Populism Win Back the Rio Grande Valley?

A Vermont U.S. senator and an Austin congressman make the case in McAllen.

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"Many told me they would fight for their water to the very last drop. Others, however, have already begun asking the existential question: Where will we go when the river runs dry?"

The Texas Observer

‘With What Water?’: Texas, Mexico, and the Disappearing Rio Conchos

Drought has hollowed out Chihuahua’s Conchos Valley and bred civil unrest as South Texas demands the water it’s owed.

#water #politics #USpol #news #environment #Mexico #Texas #border #ClimateChange