Nate Blakeslee
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Past articles by Nate:
Can a Transgender Woman Get Justice in Texas?
After Aliah Hernandez was brutally beaten in a New Braunfels motel room, her attacker walked away free. → Read More
Life Inside the Guntry Club
Welcome to the Frisco Gun Club, where the elite pack heat. → Read More
The Rick Perry Report Card
How did he perform in eight areas that are critical to the state? The grade book is now open. → Read More
Where Are the Videos?
If the Border Patrol really wants to be more transparent, it should release key surveillance footage of questionable shooting incidents. → Read More
This Land Is Your Land, Until Dallas Needs It
How a big chunk of East Texas might end up underwater to keep Dallas swimming in growth potential. → Read More
Who Will Watch the Watchers?
Heightened security measures along the border—including a dramatic increase in personnel and highly sophisticated military equipment—have made that part of our state resemble a war zone. As violent clashes with Mexican citizens increase, a crucial question emerges: Who will hold the U.S. Border Patrol accountable? → Read More
Who Will Watch the Watchers?
Heightened security measures along the border—including a dramatic increase in personnel and highly sophisticated military equipment—have made that part of our state resemble a war zone. As violent clashes with Mexican citizens increase, a crucial question emerges: Who will hold the U.S. Border Patrol accountable? → Read More
This Silverado Fought the Law, and the Law Won
Why are Texas police officers confiscating property from people who haven’t committed a crime? → Read More
Why Fewer Prisons Are Good for Texas’s Economy
Marc Levin, the director of the Center for Effective Justice and co-founder of Right on Crime, makes the fiscal conservative’s argument for closing correctional facilities. → Read More
Below the Surface
The Legislature was looking in the wrong place when it tried to solve the state’s water crisis. → Read More
How to Get a Teenager to Admit to a Murder He Didn’t Commit
An El Paso police investigator bullied sixteen-year-old Daniel Villegas into falsely confessing to two murders. Where were his parents? Where was his lawyer? And why, after eighteen years in prison, does the district attorney want to keep him locked up? → Read More
Better Off Red
It’s not all sweetness and light in the grapefruit groves of the Rio Grande Valley. → Read More
The Convert
After a sudden pang of conscience, former Bryan Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson became a pro-life activist and a star on the conservative talk show circuit. But is she telling the truth? → Read More