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Texas Matters: 'After The Flood' — Part 2

July 02, 2026 5:53pm 29 min

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 when the rains came and the flooding hit? The region is called "flash flo...

Texas Matters: 'After the Flood' tells the story of the deadly 2025 Hill Country floods

June 26, 2026 5:47pm 29 min

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 the catastrophic Central Texas flooding that killed more than 130 peopl...

Texas Matters: TX Ag Commissioner Sid Miller blasts screwworm response and why Texas isn't producing more oil

June 13, 2026 3:33pm 29 min

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says the screwworm will continue to spread unless officials adopt a more aggressive response. Also, energy economist Ed Hirs says Texas oil producers are not significantly increa...

Texas Matters: Canadian mother says Dilley ICE detention center is a 'prison,' not a family facility

June 05, 2026 11:34am 29 min

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 Tania Warner, the controversy is not abstract. It is something she says s...

James Talarico and the race for U.S. Senate

May 29, 2026 5:54pm 29 min

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 Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton.

Texas Matters: SB4 is blocked, and West Texas border wall moves forward

May 15, 2026 5:59pm 29 min

This week on Texas Matters: Sections of SB4 are blocked — which would have allowed local police to arrest suspected illegal border crossers. And Despite outcry in West Texas the efforts to build the border wall in Big Be...

Texas Matters: Pass The Biscuits, Pappy - Part Two

May 12, 2026 1:47pm 28 min

“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 catchy slogans to rocket into becoming Texas Governor and then U.S. Senato...

Texas Matters: Watering down FEMA, abortion pill access, Texas prisons' compassionate release and questions about Texas ocean desal

May 10, 2026 7:12pm 28 min

This week on Texas Matters: How the Trump administration is watering down FEMA. The prison system's compassionate release program is called a "failure." The threat to mail access to the abortion pill. And Texas is prepar...

Texas Matters: Sharia law rhetoric, abortion care fallout, and a contested death row case

April 18, 2026 4:48pm 28 min

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 three doctors were disciplined. And why a Texas death row case still hing...

Texas Matters: A populist history of Texas

April 10, 2026 4:44pm 29 min

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 reflect a more progressive vein of the state’s identity. Stories of the fen...

Texas Matters: Larry McMurtry and the making of the modern Texas myth

March 27, 2026 12:25pm 28 min

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 biography of Texas writer Larry McMurtry — “Western Star: The Life and Le...

Texas Matters: Music from behind the walls of Texas prisons

March 13, 2026 1:16pm 28 min

This week on Texas Matters — forgotten songs from Texas prisons. Heartfelt tracks written, performed, and recorded by incarcerated men. The resurrected recordings from the '60s, ’70s, and ’80s tell us about crime and pun...

Texas Matters: How Texas got religion

March 09, 2026 8:59am 28 min

Millions of Texans tell pollsters religion is very important in their lives. Every Sunday hundreds of megachurches fill up and celebrate their faith – which also shapes their politics. The result , elections are won and ...

Texas Matters: The meaning of the Spanish missions in San Antonio

February 22, 2026 10:14am 28 min

Today on Texas Matters: The old Spanish missions of San Antonio — 300 years of history, community memory and meaning. Joel Daniel Kitchens is the author of “San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memor...

Texas Matters: 1964, Civil Rights and the Lady Bird Special

February 13, 2026 1:11pm 28 min

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 Johnson, began a whistle-stop tour of the South. She shattered the expec...

Texas Matters: CAIR refutes Texas claim of pushing Sharia law and terrorism

January 31, 2026 2:57pm 28 min

Governor Greg Abbott and other Republican state leaders are targeting CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Abbott has signed a proclamation calling CAIR a “terrorist organization.” Edward Ahmed Mitchell, Nati...

Texas Matters: How Texans experience violence

January 24, 2026 9:01am 28 min

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 election.

Texas Matters: On trial — The State of Texas v. Adrian Gonzales

January 17, 2026 8:01am 28 min

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

January 10, 2026 6:52am 28 min

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 1910 the classic western movie was born in San Antonio.

Texas Matters: Pass The Biscuits, Pappy - Part Two

January 02, 2026 2:14pm 28 min

“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 catchy slogans to rocket into becoming Texas Governor and then U.S. Senato...

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