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.
Texas On Track to Pass California in COVID Deaths
It is almost certain that Texas will surpass California in the number of deaths from COVID-19 by the end of next week despite having...
Explaining Critical Race Theory
The term “critical race theory” has become both a new boogeyman on the right and a misidentified idea on the left. Even as states...
Texas’ Broken Medicaid System May Finally Be Fixed
Among the many different items in the $1.75 trillion social spending bill that is currently being debated in Congress would be a fix to...
At Least They All Live In The State: New ERCOT Appointee Was Fined...
Ever since Winter Storm Uri crippled much of Texas thanks to an inadequately prepared electrical grid, the average Texan now knows way more about...
Moderate Republicans Are a Fading Breed
It’s no secret that the Republican Party in Texas has veered sharply right in the last decade. As a new set of midterms loom,...
Texas Districts To Get Even Less Competitive Under New Maps
Under the new district lines drawn by the Texas Legislature there is even less competition, making the already heavily gerrymandered state even more polarized.
Governor...
Texas Abortion Law Already Putting People in Danger
The frustrating unwillingness of conservatives to see abortion as a necessary medical procedure instead of a handy political football has always been a dangerous...
Legal Challenges to Texas Redistricting Begin
It was always a foregone conclusion that the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature would not draw new district lines that accurately represented the increasing diversity of...
Republicans Turning Their Backs on Business in Favor of Culture Wars
In the grand kickball game of American two-party politics, it’s widely understood that Republicans picked big business as part of their team. However, the...
Southlake Incident Highlights Continued Failure to Address White Supremacy in Texas History Classes
In a shocking audio recording obtained by NBC News, an administrator in the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake advised teachers that if they...
