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Ken Paxton Is Suing Texas Counties Over Voter-Registration Efforts. What’s Legal and What’s Not?

Ken Paxton Is Suing Texas Counties Over Voter-Registration Efforts. What’s Legal and What’s Not?

Announcing the launch of a tip line for citizens who believe they are witnessing illegal electoral activity, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton penned a tongue twister. In a press release, he argued that the “significant growth of the noncitizen population in Texas and a pattern of partisan efforts to illegally weaponize voter registration and the …

The “Return” of Miranda Lambert

The “Return” of Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert grinned as she stood on the smallest stage she’s played in years. She’d just debuted an irreverent, rowdy hook—“Are we in love, or are we just drunk?” from “Bitch on the Sauce (Just Drunk)”—to the thrilled screams of 180 dedicated fans, who were mostly decked out in Miranda shirts, sparkles, fringe, or all …

The Lone Star Lithium Boom

The Lone Star Lithium Boom

A lungful of hydrogen sulfide nearly killed John Burba a few months into his first job in the West Texas oil patch. He’d grown up in the region, where his dad worked for Gulf Oil as a drilling superintendent. The encounter with the toxic gas left him with headaches for the better part of a …

An Encyclopedia of Weird Texas Town Names

An Encyclopedia of Weird Texas Town Names

Perhaps through a combination of sheer size and pioneer spirit, Texas, of all the states, seems to feature the highest concentration of truly absurd town names. About a year ago, I made a categorized list of some of the best, with food (Oatmeal), states of mind (Uncertain), concepts (Utopia), things (Telephone), names of other cities …

The Quest to Build the World’s Fastest Car

The Quest to Build the World’s Fastest Car

Two things happen when the guy sitting next to me floors the gas pedal of his $2.7 million car. First, the raspy growl of the 1,817-horsepower engine mutates from that of a cornered wolf to something even more feral and dangerous. It’s a roar fueled by so much gasoline that, at top speed, the vehicle …

Watch the Official Trailer for ‘Landman,’ a New Taylor Sheridan Series Based on Texas Monthly’s ‘Boomtown’

Watch the Official Trailer for ‘Landman,’ a New Taylor Sheridan Series Based on Texas Monthly’s ‘Boomtown’

On Thursday, Paramount+ released the official trailer for Landman, a highly anticipated series based on Texas Monthly and Imperative Entertainment’s 2019 podcast, Boomtown.  Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs. The ten-episode drama was cocreated by Taylor Sheridan and Texas Monthly alum Christian Wallace, who wrote and hosted the …

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