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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...

Episodes

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Texas Matters: Is Elon Musk on the ballot? How Abbott's data center pause failed. Who will certify the elections?

This week on Texas Matters: Elon Musk is pumping about $200 million into the election to help Republicans. So then is Musk on the ballot? Al...

29:13Oct 23, 2026

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...

29:00Oct 11, 2026

Texas Matters: Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle and a Texas anthropologist receives a 'genius grant'

This week on Texas Matters: President Trump makes a Texas campaign stop in Texas. Inside Ken Paxton’s jet-setting travels. And a Texas State...

29:13Oct 2, 2026

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...

28:59Sep 25, 2026

Texas Matters: Dems surge in polling, the high cost of diesel and how the indictments of noncitizen voters could impact the election

Today on Texas Matters: New polling in Texas shows that the coming election could break a 30-year drought for Democrats. How high diesel pri...

29:15Sep 18, 2026

Texas Matters: Ectopic pregnancy deaths rise, maternal mortality report delayed and ICE at polling places

This week on Texas Matters: Ectopic pregnancy deaths are increasing in Texas. Is there a link to abortion bans? The Texas Maternal Mortality...

29:13Sep 11, 2026

Texas Matters: Rep. Goodwin on Texas voter suppression and how the petrochemical industry burdens Gulf Coast cities

This week on Texas Matters: Will it be harder to vote in Texas in the coming midterm elections? We hear from Democratic candidate for Lt. Go...

29:13Sep 5, 2026

Texas Matters: Why so many Texas schools are closing and the new 'right to repair' in Texas

This week on Texas Matters: Why are so many Texas public school campuses closing? We hear about the impact of vouchers, charter schools and...

29:13Aug 28, 2026

Texas Matters: Ken Paxton corruption questions and Texas transmission lines

This week on Texas Matters: Is the Republican nominee for Senate, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, exceptionally corrupt? One group is cal...

29:13Aug 21, 2026

Texas Matters: Home insurance costs skyrocket and Texas juvenile justice problems persist

Texas home insurance costs are skyrocketing and becoming a barrier for housing affordability. Rising insurance costs disproportionately burd...

29:13Aug 14, 2026

Texas Matters: The politics of data centers

This week on Texas Matters— How data centers have become a hot-button issue this political cycle and how that controversy could tip the rura...

29:12Aug 7, 2026

Former Austin Mayor Steve Adler reflects on the capital city's explosive growth, homelessness and threats to democracy

During his time as mayor of Austin from 2015 through 2023, the capital city grew by 20%, saw homelessness become a crisis and faced off agai...

29:14Jul 31, 2026

Texas Matters: 'After the Flood' Episode 3 — Investigating the Camp Mystic deaths

Nearly a year after the July 4, 2025, floods in the Texas Hill Country, the families of children and counselors killed at Camp Mystic are st...

29:13Jul 10, 2026

Texas Matters: 'After The Flood' — Part 2

It has been one year since the tragic flash flood on the upper Guadalupe River that took over 117 lives. Why were local officials caught off...

29:12Jul 2, 2026

Texas Matters: 'After the Flood' tells the story of the deadly 2025 Hill Country floods

The Texas Newsroom and FRONTLINE (PBS) are collaborating on a new five-part podcast series, After the Flood, an intimate and deeply reported...

29:14Jun 26, 2026

Texas Matters: TX Ag Commissioner Sid Miller blasts screwworm response and why Texas isn't producing more oil

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says the screwworm will continue to spread unless officials adopt a more aggressive response. Also...

29:14Jun 13, 2026

Texas Matters: Canadian mother says Dilley ICE detention center is a 'prison,' not a family facility

The ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas, is again at the center of a national fight over the detention of migrant families and children. B...

29:32Jun 5, 2026

James Talarico and the race for U.S. Senate

This week on Texas Matters we hear from the Democratic nominee for Senate — James Talarico. We also hear from Scott Braddock about the race...

29:30May 29, 2026

Texas Matters: SB4 is blocked, and West Texas border wall moves forward

This week on Texas Matters: Sections of SB4 are blocked — which would have allowed local police to arrest suspected illegal border crossers....

29:00May 15, 2026

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...

28:59May 12, 2026