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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 spends half an hour each week looking at the issues and culture of Texas.
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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 against a Repu...
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 still seekin...
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 guard whe...
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 look at t...
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, energy e...
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. But for Tan...
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 between Ta...
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. And Despi...
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 show and catc...
Texas 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 a "failure...
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 after thr...
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 that refle...
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 written a bio...
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 resurrecte...
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 their faith –...
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 is the auth...
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, Lady Bird Jo...
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 proclamatio...
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 coming ele...
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. And how in...
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 show and catc...
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 hugely popula...
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’s 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 plasma is...
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 Texas true c...
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 victims. A...
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 property taxes....
Texas Matters: SNAP politics and porch pirates
This week on Texas Matters—Texans struggle with SNAP disruption. Also, we learn about how Texas is one of the worst states for porch pirates. What are...
Texas Matters: The future of AI and water in Texas
This week on Texas Matters: The demands of massive AI data centers are growing every day.ERCOT projects the state’s grid will need to double in the ne...
West Texas and the rise of U.S. conservatism
West Texas is a reliably hard-red political stronghold. In the last presidential election, the region voted about 80% for Donald Trump. West Texas is...
Texas Matters: Colin Allred is back and running for Senate
Former Texas congressman Colin Allred gave up his seat in the House to run for Senate against Ted Cruz. He came up short— but he outperformed the Demo...
Texas Matters: Candidate Bobby Pulido and 'The Perfect Tuba' by Sam Quinones
Tejano Singer Bobby Pulido is using his voice in a new way. He’s running for Congress in the 15 District of Texas. And how the Tuba is Saving kids in...
Texas Matters: How community organizers beat Corpus Christi's desalination project
This week on Texas Matters: How community organizers beat the city of Corpus Christi and Big industry to stop ocean desalination. And the CDC advisory...
Texas Matters: Robert Roberson, death row and shaken baby syndrome
Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is set to die on October 16. There is mounting evidence that Roberson's daughter, Nikki Curtis, didn't die from...
Texas Matters: Why Conan The Barbarian is a Texan
He dreamed up Conan the Barbarian from his lonely town of Cross Plains, Texas. But where did Robert E. Howard find his inspiration for the sword-and-...
Texas Matters: Texas to ban same-day voter registration
Why Gov. Abbott ordered the Texas Legislature to “prohibit same day voter registration in Texas.” And the court challenge to the controversial congres...
Texas Matters: The Ten Commandments on hold
A federal judge has granted a temporary halt to a new Texas law that requires the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. He foun...
Texas Matters: Gene Autry — The New Deal cowboy crooner
The first singing cowboy of the movies—Gene Autry —was one of America’s most popular stars. As the Texas native sang "Back in the Saddle Again" he was...
Texas Matters: The future of AI and water in Texas
This week on Texas Matters: The demands of massive AI data centers are growing every day.ERCOT projects the state’s grid will need to double in the ne...