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Every essay, feature, and report Every Bit Texas has published, in reverse chronological order.
Stories from 2014 to today 10 departments Updated weekly
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House Bill 1518
Read → What Time Can You Buy Beer on Sunday in Texas? A Century of Booze Laws Explained
Texas finally let you buy beer before noon on Sunday in 2021 — but the state's complicated relationship with alcohol goes all the way back to the Republic. Here's the full timeline, from saloon bans to House Bill 1518.
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Saltgrass Steak House
Read → Texas Roadhouse Isn't From Texas — But These 8 Chains Actually Are
The name says Texas. The logo has a cowboy hat over a state outline. The whole vibe screams Lone Star. Texas Roadhouse was born in Indiana, incorporated in Kentucky, and didn't open a single location in Texas until five years after it launched.
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Flash Flood Alley
Read → Texas and the Water: A History of Flooding, Past and Present
From the 1900 Galveston hurricane to the 2025 Guadalupe River flood, Texas keeps having the same argument with water — the rain arrives faster than the warning does. A look at how Galveston, Houston, and the Hill Country each answered the same problem differently.
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astrophotography
Read → Inside Starfront Observatories: The Texas Telescope Farm Run by Astrophotographers, for Astrophotographers
Starfront Observatories in Rockwood, Texas hosts more than 550 remote telescopes under Bortle 1 dark skies. We talked to the founders about how a cattle field became one of the largest astrophotography operations in the world.
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Carol Highsmith
Read → Houston's Skyline Has Always Been a Work in Progress
Carol Highsmith's Library of Congress photograph of Houston captures a city that's always outrunning itself. Here's what that image really documents.
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Arlington Texas
Read → The 2026 FIFA World Cup Is in Texas Right Now
Two Texas cities, nine weeks of World Cup football. Arlington hosts a semifinal at AT&T Stadium. Houston brings Germany and Portugal to NRG. Here's the full breakdown.
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football
Read → Wahoo McDaniel: Midland, Texas Made a Legend
Before he ever stepped into a wrestling ring, Ed "Wahoo" McDaniel was a West Texas multi-sport phenomenon and an AFL champion. From a childhood baseball team coached by George H.W. Bush to legendary feuds with Ric Flair, explore the larger-than-life true story of a Texas icon.
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Animal Sanctuary
Read → Meet Uncle Farmer Ben: The Guy Who Turned a Waco Crack House into Texas's Wildest Animal Sanctuary
Ben Christie left a tech job, bought a condemned crack house in Waco, and built one of Central Texas's only wildlife rehab facilities — all while being attacked daily by a homicidal bird named Kevin.
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Indigenous Languages
Read → Languages of Texas: From the Oldest to the Newest
Before Texas was Texas, it was the loudest room on the continent. Dozens of languages — indigenous isolates with no known relatives on earth, colonial tongues, immigrant dialects built in the Hill Country and Karnes County, and post-1975 arrivals that now claim millions of speakers statewide — have all crossed this ground. Some are gone. Some are barely breathing. A few just arrived.
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country music
Read → Six Texas Women Carrying Country Music on Their Backs
Texas women in country music don't wait for Nashville's permission — they earn it on the Texas circuit first. From a Galveston County nurse who picked up a guitar at 50 and scored back-to-back No. 1s, to a kid from Golden who swept the Grammys, six artists show exactly how deep the pipeline runs.
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Cameron County
Read → One Palm Tree, One Field, One River — What a Cameron County Photograph Tells Us
A 2014 Library of Congress photo captures one palm tree at the edge of a Cameron County produce field — and the deep agricultural history behind it.
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Historical maps of Texas
Read → When Texas Was Its Own Country: The 1838 Niles Map That Captured a Nation in Flux
A look at John Milton Niles' 1838 map of Mexico and the Republic of Texas — what it shows, what it gets wrong, and why it matters for Texas history.