Featured story: "It didn’t take long before Tammy Fogle, the leader of our local Moms for Liberty group, issued 27 book challenges. She had no children attending our schools, but SB 13 had opened the door for her." https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/

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Earlier, in #books: If conservatives are going to unsettle what it means to be American, maybe it’s best to accept the invitation. https://www.texasobserver.org/american-citizenship-and-other-myths/

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"Must we recover an alternative story about this place with a different theme other than rugged individualism at its heart? Forge a connection between the hardhat and the maverick cowboy hat, the pecan-sheller and the Ascension hospital nurse on strike?"
https://www.texasobserver.org/mythbusting-texas-reactionary-past/

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New from Alex Birnel: This new book’s intention is clear— to sketch a distinct throughline connecting the left organizers of the Texas present to the radicals of the Texas past. Think of it like laying down an ideological I-35 for us to follow. https://www.texasobserver.org/mythbusting-texas-reactionary-past/

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Featured story: "I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather, hoping it would pass over me as if lamb’s blood were painted on my doorframe.

And for the first three years, wishful thinking worked." https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/

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Catch up with everything we've published from the March/April 2026 issue of our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/issues/march-april-2026/

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Featured story: "It didn’t take long before Tammy Fogle, the leader of our local Moms for Liberty group, issued 27 book challenges. She had no children attending our schools, but SB 13 had opened the door for her." https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/

#censorship #library #education #schools #politics #USpol #fascism #books #bookstodon #Texas #news