Texas Matters: Pass The Biscuits, Pappy - Part Two
“Pass the Politics Pappy” explores the remarkable political rise of W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, a flour salesman who used his popular radio sho...
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Texas is a big state with a growing, diverse population and as the population grows, the issues and challenges facing its residents multiply. Texas Matters is a statewide news program that s...
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20 of 22 episodesTexas Matters: Watering down FEMA, abortion pill access, Texas prisons' compassionate release and questions about Texas ocean desal
This week on Texas Matters: How the Trump administration is watering down FEMA. The prison system's compassionate release program is called...
Texas Matters: Sharia law rhetoric, abortion care fallout, and a contested death row case
This week on Texas Matters: Why “Sharia law” has become a flashpoint in Texas politics. How the state’s abortion ban is tied to new scrutiny...
Texas Matters: A populist history of Texas
This week on Texas Matters — The story of Texas that we typically hear is one with a conservative bias.But there are parts of Texas history...
Texas Matters: Larry McMurtry and the making of the modern Texas myth
This week on "Texas Matters," the life and writing of Larry McMurtry and how he refined the myths of being a Texan. David Streitfeld has wri...
Texas Matters: Music from behind the walls of Texas prisons
This week on Texas Matters — forgotten songs from Texas prisons. Heartfelt tracks written, performed, and recorded by incarcerated men. The...
Texas Matters: How Texas got religion
Millions of Texans tell pollsters religion is very important in their lives. Every Sunday hundreds of megachurches fill up and celebrate the...
Texas Matters: The meaning of the Spanish missions in San Antonio
Today on Texas Matters: The old Spanish missions of San Antonio — 300 years of history, community memory and meaning. Joel Daniel Kitchens i...
Texas Matters: 1964, Civil Rights and the Lady Bird Special
In October 1964, as the South simmered under the tensions following the signing of the Civil Rights Act three months earlier, First Lady, La...
Texas Matters: CAIR refutes Texas claim of pushing Sharia law and terrorism
Governor Greg Abbott and other Republican state leaders are targeting CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Abbott has signed a p...
Texas Matters: How Texans experience violence
Today on Texas Matters — A first-of-its-kind survey shows how Texans experience violence. And how changes at the post office can impact the...
Texas Matters: On trial — The State of Texas v. Adrian Gonzales
Today on Texas Matters: The State of Texas v. Adrian Gonzales. The former Uvalde School District police officer on trial.
Texas Matters: Nuclear-powered AI and the first Texas movie studio
The Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and intelligence Campus — near Amarillo — plans to use nuclear power for the biggest data center ever. A...
Texas Matters: Pass The Biscuits, Pappy - Part Two
“Pass the Politics Pappy” explores the remarkable political rise of W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, a flour salesman who used his popular radio sho...
Texas Matters: Pass The Politics, Pappy
W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel was a flour salesman turned broadcaster who mastered early mass media to build a political machine. As host of a hug...
Texas Matters: Remembering Joe Ely and 'Love in the Midst of Mayhem'
Texas lost a flatlander troubadour — songwriter Joe Ely.The Amarillo native established himself as a songwriter’s songwriter and a musician’...
Texas Matters: Blood Work — Inside America’s plasma-for-cash economy
As a growing number of people are caught in the affordability crisis, they are turning to selling their blood plasma to make ends meet. That...
Texas Matters: Skip Hollandsworth and 'She Kills'
For over 30 years Skip Hollandsworth has been a master storyteller at "Texas Monthly." He’s been investigating and telling the stories of Te...
Texas Matters: FEMA follow-up in Kerr County; Searching for the last flood victims; pregnant in jail
This week on Texas Matters: How did FEMA actually perform after the July 4th Hill Country flood? Texas Rangers continue to search for flood...
Texas Matters: Killing hemp and ending school property taxes
This week on "Texas Matters": Governor Greg Abbott announces he's running for a fourth term with a five-point plan to eliminate school prope...
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