Gus Bova
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Austin, TX, United States
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‘Border Security’ Is a Financial Black Hole that Will Consume Us All
State spending on cops and tech at the Texas border has increased ninefold in a decade, now set to reach $4.6 billion over the next two years. → Read More
Greg Abbott’s ‘State of the State’ Was a Weird, Alarming Infomercial
“I’m speaking to you from the manufacturing floor of Noveon,” announced Texas’ fearless leader to a limited audience before laying out yet another right-wing agenda. → Read More
‘Red Wave’ Makes Modest Splash in South Texas
The GOP took just one of three Congressional seats from Brownsville to Laredo, and short-lived incumbent Mayra Flores has been sent packing. → Read More
The Uvalde Parents Won't Back Down
Alongside diligent media members, and despite local divisions, these families aren’t letting Texas move on from the Robb Elementary tragedy. → Read More
Three Months After Uvalde Tragedy, Hundreds Demand Increase in Assault Weapon Age Limit (Photos)
“Our children's lives depend on common-sense laws that the vast majority of Texans desperately want,” declared the father of one victim. → Read More
‘Nobody Has Accepted Accountability’: Uvalde Families Demand Change to Police and School Personnel
After the release of a damning House report, a Monday night school board meeting turned tense and passionate. → Read More
‘Nobody Has Accepted Accountability’: Uvalde Families Demand Change to Police and School Personnel
After the release of a damning House report, a Monday night school board meeting turned tense and passionate. → Read More
Uvalde Marches for Transparency and Gun Reform
Some 500 protesters withstood the brutal heat to demand justice for those lost in the May 24 school massacre. → Read More
Greg Casar: A Progressive South Star
The organizer, groundbreaking Austin policymaker, and congressional nominee plans to be the House’s ‘most pro-labor’ member. → Read More
Greg Abbott Is Full of Shit
And culpable. → Read More
Report: Google Fiber Subcontractors’ Record Shows Value of Union Labor
‘High-speed reliable broadband is a social justice issue, it’s a climate justice issue, and it’s an economic justice issue.' → Read More
Texans Show Up in Force to Protect 'Roe'
The Supreme Court is about to overturn 1973 landmark reproductive-rights ruling. Austinites are not here for it. → Read More
The San Antonio Border Security Expo Is Decadent and Depraved
Robot dogs, cocktails, a shooting competition, and more taxpayer money than you can shake a drone at. → Read More
Neither Here, Nor There
The City of Austin is back to playing whack-a-mole with its large unsheltered population. → Read More
Meet the Former National Guard Member Blowing the Whistle on Abbott's Operation Lone Star
Jason Featherston, who has devoted more than half his life to the National Guard, is now the leading critic of Governor Greg Abbott’s border surge, Operation Lone Star. → Read More
‘What We Leave Behind’ Is a Beautifully Understated Migration Story
And an exciting feature debut for Texan director Iliana Sosa. → Read More
Brownsville Cops Arrest Activist for Anti-SpaceX Graffiti, Mayor Posts Her Info on Facebook
Why did police show up in force to apprehend a local activist, and why is the city’s top elected posting her mugshot and job details on social media? → Read More
Lone Star ‘Squad’: AOC Rallies for Texans Greg Casar and Jessica Cisneros
The two candidates would represent a new left edge of Texas' congressional delegation. → Read More
The Rio Grande Valley Is at a Political Crossroads
A resurgent GOP makes 2022 a year of possibilities in a Democratic border stronghold. → Read More
Sinema Reaffirms That No, Congress Probably Won’t Save Democracy in Texas
Hope dwindles for Congress to fix racist Texas voting laws and gerrymandering. → Read More