BREAKING NEWS: Elon Musk wanted to turn his SpaceX launch site into a city. Voters in Texas just said 'yes.' With @beregarcia.bsky.social of the @texastribune.org. www.kut.org/politics/202...

Texas is a Trump state, but it's also an exporting state. Why even some of Trump's backers in Texas are skittish on his tariffs: With @beregarcia.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/01/30/t...

SpaceX wants to incorporate Starbase, its South Texas headquarters, into an official city. This, after Cameron County denied them a variance request that would allow them to subdivide their limited residential area into more lots last month. www.texastribune.org/2024/12/12/s...

Texas offers Trump administration more land and support for mass deportations. Two events in the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday made clear Texas officials will work with the Trump administration on immigration. Reporting from @beregarcia.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2024/11/26/t...

Texas officials sent a clear message Tuesday during twin events in the Rio Grande Valley that they would be a willing partner to the incoming Trump administration for its pledged immigration crackdown. via @beregarcia.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2024/11/26/t...

Texas is offering up more land to Trump to assist with mass deportations via @beregarcia.bsky.social with @texastribune.org www.texastribune.org/2024/11/26/t...

TX Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham announced the state will offer up more land to the Trump administration for deportation facilities. My story for The Texas Tribune via Report for America: www.texastribune.org/2024/11/26/t...

We’re here in Starr County where TX Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is about to kick off construction of more state border wall. She’s also offered up this land to the incoming Trump administration to build detention facilities for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.

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We found out where SpaceX gets its water for its deluge system. There's a bunch of stuff a Brownsville utility does not want us to know.

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Hello world. I love Texas and I love pie and I love pie about Texas. Proof: this pie-version of a cartogram that I made for my colleagues @texastribune.org. (Pie by me, map by my colleague Yuriko Schumacher) See the map here: apps.texastribune.org/features/202...

Spoke to Rio Grande Valley locals about Trump’s first visit to Texas following his historic win for @texastribune.bsky.social through Report4America

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A South Texas coffee shop showcased art by migrant children living in encampments across the border. One piece depicted a child’s journey through the Darién Gap, including a body he saw on the edge of a river. myrgv.com/local-news/2...