El Paso judge blocks Ken Paxton from taking legal action against Beto O’Rourke’s political group

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. An El Paso judge this week temporarily stopped Attorney General Ken Paxton from prosecuting former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s political group, Powered by People, after Paxton m

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn runs ads targeting Ken Paxton over questionable campaign contributions

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, wasted no time in trolling the shit out of his primary rival, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, over a letter federal regulators sent Paxton's Senate campaign demanding that it explain $658,000 in potentially illegal contributions. The Current was the first to report

Pogo Across Texas: Photographer Pat Blashill talks new book about Lone Star State punk

Photographer Pat Blashill’s work has been published in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Spin and the Village Voice. It’s even been featured on album covers for Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Scratch Acid, Nick Cave and others.  But when Blashill was just starting to explore photography, he was living

Documentary Sex Work: It's Just a Job screening for free this Saturday in San Antonio

Sex work, a consensual exchange of sexual services between adults for compensation, has existed across human history. Around the world, advocates are working to reframe it not as a moral debate but an issue involving labor rights, public health and social justice. Yet in reality, sex workers — prima