Jef Rouner
Jef Rouner is an award-winning freelance journalist, the author of The Rook Circle, and a member of The Black Math Experiment. He lives in Houston where he spends most of his time investigating corruption and strange happenings. Jef has written for Houston Press, Free Press Houston, and Houston Chronicle.
Dade Phelan Being Challenged By A Secessionist With An Unaccredited Law Degree
Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is the number-one target of far-right Texas Republicans. Their chosen candidate has a correspondence degree from an unaccredited school...
Russian Misinformation Escalates Texas Border Fight
Data obtained by Wired shows that Russia’s massive online disinformation resources are being deployed to escalate divisions of the southern border in Texas.
If you’ve...
Charter Schools Struggling As GOP Pushes for Vouchers
During the regular and special legislative sessions of the Texas legislature, proponents of school vouchers held expanding school funding hostage. Vouchers failed to pass,...
Texas GOP Remains Anti-DEI, But They Need BlackRock To Fix The Grid
There was a curious dance of finance in Houston on Tuesday. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick pretended that BlackRock, the world’s largest investment firm, was...
Texas Republicans Forced To Choose Between Securing The Border Or Helping Biden
A bipartisan bill for border reform is due to be revealed in the U.S. Senate this weekend. The only problem is that House Republicans...
Abbott’s Voucher Revenge War Loses First Battle In North Texas
It was supposed to be the first shot in Governor Greg Abbott’s electoral campaign of revenge for House Republicans not passing his school voucher...
Small Convoy of Conspiracy Theorists Head to Southern Border
A small group of vehicles is headed to the southern border in Texas, promising to hunt down immigrants. It’s not going well.
They call it...
Texas Leads In Most Rape-Related Pregnancies Since Abortion Ban
The Lone Star State added another first-place trophy to its shelf of dubious honors this week. A new study in the Journal of the...
Greg Abbott’s Wealthy Pro-Voucher Army
Governor Greg Abbott has made school vouchers his political white whale. However, unlike Captain Ahab, Abbott is backed by some astounding amounts of money...
HISD Voting Down Chaplains As Counselors Is A Good Thing
The Houston Independent School District School Board unanimously voted last week to not allow chaplains to serve as school counselors. Here’s why that’s a...
