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The Texas GOP Now Has a Place for Candidates Once Too Far Right to Get Elected John Cornyn forced a runoff against Ken Paxton, but the Tim Dunn wing of the party had an otherwise stellar night.

An anti-Furry pastor. A gun-toting Youtuber. An Islamophobic Twitter troll. The guy who secretly bought Jeffrey Epstein's New Mexico ranch. Ken Paxton. A quick look at the Texas primary, in which the once-fringe far right further proved that they are the new GOP mainstream:

We're Also Sick of the Question “Will Texas Turn Blue?” Yet Here We Go Again. In some ways, we've been here before. In others, this is uncharted territory. Here's what last night's primary results could mean for November.

In some ways, we’ve been here before. In others, this is uncharted territory.

Here’s what last night’s primary results could mean for November: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-primary-results-takeaways/

The Ballad of Briscoe Cain, the MAGA Legislator Whose Dreams Were Squashed by Trump Briscoe Cain could only exist in the Texas Legislature. He was tragically tempted to run for U.S. Congress.

“I have instructed a large language model trained on sixty years of the most florid and overwrought Texas political writing (which is to say, my brain) to produce a guide to the man and his times.” This is peak @hooks.bsky.social in the best way possible www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

This Texas Teenager Is One of the World's Most Feared Fighters. Don’t Expect Her to Talk About It. Not yet twenty, Helena Crevar is one of the most feared fighters in martial arts. What’s her secret?

"At competitions, higher-ranked belts sometimes refused to compete with her, not wishing to be upstaged by someone so young. But they couldn’t avoid her forever: Helena compressed the often five-year journey from purple to black belt into nine months." www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

3. General Excellence, Special Interest Anyway Bicycling Philadelphia Magazine Texas Monthly The Trace

12. Lifestyle Journalism The Cut for “The Forever-35 Face,” by Bridget Read, Fall Food & Wine for “Out of the Wild,” by Kim Cross, July, “How Wild Salmon Gets From Sea to Plate,” August 19 on instagram.com/foodandwine, and “I Tracked a Wild Salmon From Sea to Plate—What I Learned Surprised Me,” by Kim Cross, August 20 at foodandwine.com New York Magazine for “Your Parents' Money,” with an introductory essay by Madeline Leung Coleman, February 10-23 Philadelphia Magazine for “Cheesesteak 2.0,” by Bradford Pearson, Kae Lani Palmisano, Adam Erace, Victor Fiorillo, Emily Goulet, Jason Sheehan and Regan Fletcher Stephens, April Texas Monthly for “The 50 Best BBQ Joints in Texas,” by Daniel Vaughn, June

13. Reporting The Atavist for “‘There Will Be No Mercy,’” by Drew Philp, January 31 Bloomberg Businessweek for “Erasing the Verdict: The Ongoing Shock of Trump’s Cocaine Kingpin Pardon,” by Monte Reel, December 26 at bloomberg.com The Guardian for “Influencers Made Millions Pushing ‘Wild’ Births—Now the Free Birth Society Is Linked to Baby Deaths Around the World,” by Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne, November 22 MIT Technology Review for “We Did the Math on AI’s Energy Footprint. Here’s the Story You Haven’t Heard,” by James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart, May 20 at technologyreview.com The New York Times Magazine for “‘You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama,” by Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg, February 13 at nytimes.com/magazine ProPublica for three articles by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera,” December 15, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis,” December 17, and “The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive,” December 17 Texas Monthly with Food & Environment Reporting Network for two articles by Elliott Woods: “A Deadly Passage,” February 26, and “‘Stay Strong, My Brother,’” December 3, at texasmonthly.com

14. Feature Writing The Atlantic for “Is Ian Still in There?,” by Sarah Zhang, June Harper's Magazine for “The Goon Squad,” by Daniel Kolitz, November Mountain Gazette with Epic Magazine for “The Bear Suit,” by Owen Long, Issue No. 203 New York Magazine for “There Is No Safe Word,” by Lila Shapiro, January 13-26 The New Yorker for “Second Life,” by Rachel Aviv, July 28 STAT for “Sterilization, Mysterious Pain, and Dismissive Doctors: Why Women Turn to Reversal Surgery—and Sometimes to RFK Jr.,” by Eric Boodman, September 8 Texas Monthly for “Where the River Took Us,” by Aaron Parsley, August

@texasmonthly.bsky.social is a finalist for four National Magazine Awards, all of which feel so meaningful to be recognized for. Truly could not be prouder to be a member of this team. asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...

👏👏👏👏👏 congrats!!

These Suburban Gondoliers Have Seen 10,000 Proposals. Here’s What They’ve Learned About Love. Often privy to multiple marriage proposals a day, the gondola king of Irving has learned a thing or two about the affairs of the heart.

“‘We are the most romantic city in the whole state,’ says sixty-year-old Greg Mohr. He is referring, confidently but improbably, to Irving, the Metroplex outpost that was previously home to Texas Stadium—and that is now, in his estimation, the Venice of Texas.” www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

These Suburban Gondoliers Have Seen 10,000 Proposals. Here’s What They’ve Learned About Love. Often privy to multiple marriage proposals a day, the gondola king of Irving has learned a thing or two about the affairs of the heart.

a little Valentine’s Day programming for you: this delightful piece on gondoliers in the middle of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and what they’ve learned about love www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years

They laid off Marty?! 😭 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

The Brewer’s Art, a Mount Vernon mainstay, abruptly closes after 30 years Owner Volker Stewart informed employees by text message Monday that he was closing effective immediately due to financial problems, according to screenshots shared with The Banner.

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Man, this makes me so sad. Working at the York Dispatch—living alone for the first time, working overnight on the sports desk, learning how to copy edit and lay out pages on a daily cadence, meeting a coworker who became one of my best friends—was such a formative experience for me.

York Dispatch publishes final issue as newsroom merges with, website redirects to York Daily Record YORK, Pa. (WHTM) — Another Midstate newspaper has published its last issue. The York Dispatch hit newsstands for the final time Friday and, by Friday evening, its website redirected to that o…

the newsroom where I started my journalism career is no more 😢 www.abc27.com/local-news/y...

Is Anyone Still Crossing the Border? Yes, Actually. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has boasted that border crossings have dropped to zero. That’s not true.

The southern frontier is quiet enough that Border Patrol agents have time to go brutalize Minnesotans.

But people are still crossing.

Who are they? I found out in a peculiar way—by getting briefly confused for a smuggler and stopped on the Rio Grande: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Texas has never known quite how to think about its universities. In almost every generation, our schools—most often the University of Texas—have come under attack by elected officials for being foreign bodies spreading a corrupting influence. But crackdowns have usually been met with strong pushback from other elected officials. When the corrupt Governor James “Pa” Ferguson tried to fire professors at UT, claiming they had criticized him, the Legislature impeached him and he subsequently resigned. The Aggies are getting it worse than the Longhorns ever did, and this time there’s been very little backlash. The school is on its fifth president in five years and appears ungovernable to both insiders and external observers. It currently has what is in effect an occupation administration—the president and chancellor of the university system are both former Texas state senators with no real history in education.

Even if you’re not an Aggie, you have a vested interest in the fight. There is, first, a material element. The flagship campus of the state’s largest public research university has historically upheld modernity in Texas, and that load-bearing institution is being diminished. The other reason you should care is that the political questions facing Texas A&M are the most important questions facing the nation as a whole. In 2026, the university will celebrate its 150th birthday and the nation will celebrate its 250th. Who counts as a true Aggie? A true Texan? A true American? What is the purpose of higher education in Texas? Can we keep the great colleges we’ve inherited from Rudder, or will the heroic work of generations past be erased?

"Who counts as a true Aggie? A true Texan? A true American? What is the purpose of higher education in Texas? Can we keep the great colleges we’ve inherited from Rudder, or will the heroic work of generations past be erased?" www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

a hell of a story by Chris

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from us (and Willie) to you. 🎄

In our December 2012 issue, writer Michael Hall weighs the question: What if Willie Nelson is Santa Claus? 🤔 https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/the-red-hooded-stranger/

Ice Companies Used to Suffer All Winter. Then Texans Started Paying Thousands for Snow Parties. Pricey snowscapes are delighting winter-starved Texans and also keep ice distributors in business.

“A small, synthetic ice rink had been assembled underneath a large Christmas tree, and dozens of kids clomped around in plastic skates. Each of them seemed to be in different stages of falling.” www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

Ice Companies Used to Suffer All Winter. Then Texans Started Paying Thousands for Snow Parties. Pricey snowscapes are delighting winter-starved Texans and also keep ice distributors in business.

An absolute delight by @lonlozzin.bsky.social, @texasmonthly.bsky.social’s chief Christmas correspondent www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

All y'all should read the great Mike Hall on the great Joe Ely

Behind the Scenes at America's Most Extreme Christmas Pageant Prestonwood Baptist Church’s 'The Gift of Christmas' features pyrotechnics, lasers, elves on trapezes, peacocks, and a flying Santa. Oh, and a nativity.

obsessed with @lonlozzin.bsky.social look behind the scenes at Prestonwood Baptist Church’s annual extravaganza "The Gift of Christmas," featuring three camels, two zebras, 1,200 cast members (including angels and a Santa who fly in on wires), and so much more www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...

McCormick drops plastic, brings back classic Old Bay tin McCormick & Company is bringing back tin packaging for Old Bay, the spice blend’s original packaging before the brand switched to plastic in 2017.

huge news www.thebanner.com/economy/mcco...

is the script for “Wicked: For Good” a mess? yes. did I still ugly-cry through “For Good”? also yes

dang it, I KNEW I was missing a step

spotted feral hogs for the first time at a Texas state park. does this mean I’m a real Texan now @thetexanist.bsky.social

It’s Slurp Season. Here Are 9 Essential Texas Soups to Keep You Warm and Full. Steaming stews, beefy broths, and a bonus side of cornbread.

Soup season is upon us! It's the best time of the year. 🍲

Slurp up our favorites: https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/9-essential-texas-soups-to-keep-you-warm-and-full/

two frames: - first frame: lady yells "Why can't you be normal?" - second frame: Game 7 of the World Series with the caption "[screaming]"

the 2025 michelin guide to texas will be announced in houston on tuesday

we're going nationwide!!!