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Criminal Justice

Report: Texas Risk Of Domestic Violent Extremism Is Higher Than Average

Andrew Schneider

Posted on March 24, 2021 · An analysis of Google searches finds that, since September, Texas has had 80% more searches per capita than the U.S. average for targeted violence, including bomb-making instructions.

Tags Capitol riots conspiracy theories extremism violence white supremacist

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Dozens With Ties To Supremacist Gangs Arrested In Texas

Associated Press

Posted on May 1, 2018 · Prosecutors say four defendants early this year kidnapped someone in an effort to obtain drug proceeds they believed were owed to them

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Pearland ISD Continues To Support Superintendent After Latest Controversy

Davis Land

Posted on November 17, 2017 · The superintendent's adult son made racist and white supremacist comments over Facebook

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White Nationalist Threatens Lawsuit After Texas A&M Cancels Rally

Andrew Schneider

Posted on August 15, 2017 · The university cited concerns for public safety, after organizer Patrick Wiginton linked the event, planned for September 11, to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia that left one dead and dozens injured.

Tags First Amendment Freedom of Speech texas a&m university white nationalist white supremacist

A Trump supporter holding up a sign reading "Deplorables and Alt-Right Unite," including an image of Pepe the Frog. The cartoon character has become a symbol for white supremacist groups.

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Texas School Official Removed Over Book’s White Supremacist Symbol

Associated Press

Posted on August 15, 2017 · The Denton school district said in a statement Monday that the publicity generated by Eric Hauser's work has become a "distraction."

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Houston Matters

Is Texas A&M Violating The First Amendment?

Abner Fletcher

Posted on August 15, 2017 · The university’s decision to cancel a white nationalist rally in September is sparking a discussion about free speech.

Tags Charles "Rocky" Rhodes Charlottesville constitutional law First Amendment South Texas College of Law Houston Texas A&M white supremacist

Dana Farley, of New Orleans, participates in a candlelight vigil at the statue of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans, Monday, April 24, 2017. New Orleans will begin taking down Confederate statutes, becoming the latest Southern body to divorce itself from what some say are symbols of racism and intolerance. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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New Orleans Takes Down White Supremacist Monument

Gerald Herbert, AP / JESSE J. HOLLAND, AP

Posted on April 24, 2017 · A monument to a deadly white-supremacist uprising in 1874 was removed under cover of darkness by workers in masks and bulletproof vests Monday as New Orleans joined the movement to take down symbols of the Confederacy and the Jim Crow South.

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Working past retirement age (Jan. 26, 2023)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on January 26, 2023 · On Thursday's show: We discuss why some older Houstonians keep working long past the traditional retirement age. And new revelations about the siege on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco 30 years ago come to light in a new book.

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Elections

How Texans helped plot, foment and carry out the Jan. 6 insurrection

Robert Downen, The Texas Tribune

Posted on January 6, 2023 · From those who planted the seeds of Trump’s strategy to try to challenge the election, to others who sowed doubt and anger by spreading baseless election-fraud conspiracy theories, Texans played major roles in the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol two years ago.

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Town Square

Amy Spitalnick on the Charlottesville Trial and What Can Be Done to Prevent the Spread of Hate Moving Forward

Garrett Bohlmann

Posted on January 2, 2023 · Discussing the violence that occurred with the activist who led the lawsuit against the organizers of the Unite the Right rally.

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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2386: One of These Is True

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 30, 2022 · Episode: 2386 Things we know are false, but one of them is true. Which one? Today, one of these is true.

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