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.
Operation Lone Star Is Near Useless At Stopping Fentanyl
Every week, Ohio congressional representative Jim Jordan sends out the same fundraising email with the terrifying headline, “Enough Fentanyl to Kill Every American.” It...
Operation Lone Star Is Going Broke
Operation Lone Star has been a fantastically expensive undertaking, and it’s likely that the mission will run out of money before the end of...
Fact-Check: Abbott’s Claim Of Low Energy Prices In Texas Is False
In the only scheduled debate between Governor Greg Abbott and former congressional representative Beto O’Rourke on Friday, Abbott claimed “electricity costs in Texas remain...
Fifth Circuit Guts First Amendment Rights On The Internet
In one of the most baffling and legally ridiculous ruling in the history of law defining the online space, the Fifth Circuit of Appeals...
Ted Cruz Wants Credit For Bill He Voted Against
Senator Ted Cruz has recently been taking credit for a popular Texas highway project that he voted against.
“We did the hard work to bring...
Chief Justices File Unusual Brief To Prevent Republican Election Dominance
In the latest fight against wide scale takeover of the election system by Republican state legislatures backing the Big Lie, a group of state...
The Horrifically Broken Texas Medicaid Waiver System
When the Medicaid waiver system was put in place in Texas four decades ago, it was supposed to help stop the abuse of disabled...
Texas Had The Most Firearm Deaths In 2020
As Texas continues to loosen gun restrictions, the state leads the nation in total firearm deaths, and by a lot.
Using data from the Centers...
Immigrant Bussing Stunts Backfiring On Abbott, DeSantis
For months, top Republicans like Texas Governor Greg Abbot and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, have been shipping captured border crossers, many of them asylum...
The Most Dangerous City in Texas is Run By a Republican. Here’s Why That...
It is a major Republican talking point in Texas that Democratically controlled cities are hotbeds of crime and villainy, a predictable side effect of...
