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Protesters in two of Texas' largest cities clashed with police on Monday night to show solidarity with demonstrations in Los Angeles against President Donald Trump's sweeping deportation raids. As Trump mobilized 700 Marines to deal with the mayhem in LA, tensions quickly escalated in Dallas and Austin at anti-Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) rallies. Dallas police began arresting individuals just before 9pm after they pleaded with protestors to stay off the Margret Hunt Hill Bridge, a busy thoroughfare into downtown filled with cars zooming by. As darkness fell on the city, a line of cops blocked the advance of the protestors...

Rumours of a serial killer in a major U.S. city are swirling after 38 bodies have been pulled from a lake in three years. The most recent discovery was found by a paddleboarder in Lady Bird Lake in Austin Texas, on Tuesday morning. The discovery has renewed fears that a mass murderer, dubbed the ‘Rainy Street Ripper’, is on the loose in the city with close to a million residents. Austin’s police force has insisted a killer is not roaming the streets, and has said only one of the cases was a homicide. But half a dozen of the bodies...

In 1939, Irish author James Joyce published Finnegans Wake, a piece of literature that defies comprehension. “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s,” it begins, “from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.” The book starts and ends with a sentence fragment, combines multiple languages and has no clear or linear plot. It’s a work that’s so dense, one group that started in Austin has been working on it for more than a decade. “We’re only reading one page at a time,” said Peter Quadrino, founder and organizer...

Austin, TX psych-sludge act Lord Buffalo have been forced to cancel their upcoming European tour after drummer Yamal Said was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday, May 12th at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. The band explained that Said, a Mexican citizen and U.S. green card holder, was forcibly removed from the flight while attempting to travel to Europe. The exact circumstances of the detainment remain unclear, but the band confirmed that the situation has made it impossible to continue with the planned tour. The Austin Chronicle reports that Said has lived in Austin, TX since the...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking legal action against the Austin Independent School District after his office said it was made aware of a claim that top officials “implemented an unwritten policy of developing and teaching curricula in the (district) in violation of state law prohibiting instruction on critical race theory (CRT) and related topics,” a court document said.Critical race theory is a concept that looks at how race relations have shaped the current social, cultural and legal world in the present time. It was banned from being taught in Texas classrooms in 2021.Paxton’s office is accusing AISD’s school...

A white mother from Austin, Texas, was allegedly murdered by a black career criminal — and once again, the propaganda media shrugs their shoulders, while the politicians look the other way. In today’s upside-down America, there’s only outrage when it fits the regime’s narrative. We all know by now that if the races were reversed, this story would be flooding every news channel, with riots raging in the streets. But when a white victim dies at the hands of a violent black criminal, the media does everything it can to bury it — or worse, pretend that it’s an isolated...

Most Americans have no idea what’s happening on their highways. While we’re all stuck debating the border, our roads have also been totally overrun — not just with bad policies, but with foreign truck drivers who don’t belong behind the wheel or on our streets.. Shannon Everett from American Truckers joined Steve Bannon’s WarRoom to blow the lid off this growing and dangerous trend. According to Everett, what’s happening right now should terrify anyone who drives. That’s scary and disturbing, but it gets even worse… An American trucker says illegals — possibly Jamaican or Haitian—are being given commercial driver’s licenses,...

After a significant bond reduction Monday morning, the 17-year-old accused of stabbing Frisco, Texas track star Austin Metcalf to death has been released from jail. Karmelo Anthony, 17, faces first-degree murder charges in Metcalf's death. His bond was dropped from $1 million to $250,000 Monday morning, FOX Dallas Ft. Worth reported. Anthony's bond conditions include house arrest and an ankle monitor, and he will only be able to leave his home with the judge's permission.

Hopper clearly stated there are only TWO GENDERS! Thank you, Representative Hopper, for the amendment! TX FIRST! Lara Logan✓ @laralogan This is common sense. The insanity is that this is regarded as controversial at all.

Multiple incendiary devices were found inside a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas, on Monday morning as nationwide threats against CEO Elon Musk continue. Austin Police Department officers were called to the electric vehicle showroom just after 8am after an anonymous caller reported that there were bombs placed inside the building. Authorities rushed to the scene and located multiple 'suspicious devices' at the Tesla dealership. The Austin Police Department Bomb Squad were also called to help. The incendiary devices - which are designed to cause large-scale, explosive violence - were taken into police custody without incident, the department said. It is...

Police find multiple “incendiary” devices placed at Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas

Owen Shroyer, the host of Infowars’ War Room, was the latest victim of the Democrat terrorist swatting campaign plaguing the nation after police called him out of his home late Tuesday night due to a hoax 911 call. Shroyer’s home security video system captured the incident: VIDEOS AT LINK..................... Watch more footage of Austin, Texas, police calling Shroyer out of his home and having him slowly walk towards them with his hands on his head. Owen posted a video detailing the chilling moment, thanking the Austin Police Department for doing their jobs and calling for the Democrat Party’s street thugs...

InfoWars reporter Jamie White was “brutally murdered” near his Austin, Texas, home on Sunday night, according to the outlet. Alex Jones, the founder of InfoWars, revealed the shocking news in a statement shared by the outlet on Monday. “We are deeply saddened to inform you that InfoWars Reporter Jamie White was brutally murdered around midnight Sunday night due, in part, to the policies of the Soros Austin, TX D.A. Jose Garza,” Jones wrote. “We pledge that Jamie’s tragic death will not be in vain, and those responsible for this senseless violence will be brought to justice,” the statement added.

InfoWars journalist Jamie White was murdered just before midnight Sunday night in Austin, Texas. InfoWars founder Alex Jones called White a “one-of-a-kind man who poured his devotion into anything he did.” Shortly before Midnight on Sunday, Austin police officers responded to a “shoot/stab hotshot” call at an apartment complex in the 2300 block of Douglas Street. Responding officers found a male in the parking lot with “obvious signs of trauma,” KXAN NBC reported. EMS crews transported the man to a local hospital, where he died a short time later from his wounds. Austin Detective Leah Ratliff told reporters that officers...

Jamie White, a reporter for Alex Jones’ Infowars, was killed in a suspected homicide outside of his home in Austin, Texas just before midnight on Sunday. “We are deeply saddened to inform you that Infowars Reporter Jamie White was brutally murdered around midnight Sunday night due, in part, to the policies of the Soros Austin, TX D.A. Jose Garza,” announced Jones in a social media post on Monday. “We pledge that Jamie’s tragic death will not be in vain, and those responsible for this senseless violence will be brought to justice.” Austin Police Department found White outside his apartment complex...

An InfoWars reporter was brutally murdered in Austin on Sunday evening, Alex Jones has announced. Posting on the X platform, Alex Jones said the murder of Jamie White was the result of the local Soros-backed District Attorney Jose Garza. Jones wrote: We are deeply saddened to inform you that InfoWars Reporter Jamie White was brutally murdered around midnight Sunday night due, in part, to the policies of the Soros Austin, TX D.A. Jose Garza. We pledge that Jamie’s tragic death will not be in vain, and those responsible for this senseless violence will be brought to justice.

In their Financial State of the Cities 2025 report, Truth in Accounting studied eight Texas cities and found their cumulative debt is a steep $37.45 billion. Austin had the highest share with $9.8 billion in debt, while Plano had the least at $467.9 million. “The data confirms what most people suspect—Texas’ local governments are addicted to debt. And that has major consequences for today’s taxpayers and tomorrow’s Texans,” James Quintero of the Texas Public Policy Foundation stated.

Five former secretaries of Defense have signed a letter protesting the firing by President Trump of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C. Q. Brown, demanding the Senate refuse to confirm Trump’s nominee to replace Brown and for Congress to investigate the firing of Brown and other senior officers by Trump. Trump nominated retired Air Force Lieutenant General Dan “Razin” Caine to replace Brown. Caine will need a waiver from Trump on meeting the legal requirements for the chairman. The five who signed are Trump’s first SecDef, James Mattis, Biden’s AWOL SecDef Lloyd Austin, Obama SecDefs Leon Panetta...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is conducting his own investigation into the Texas Lottery. This comes after a winning $83.5 million lottery ticket was bought at a retail store in North Austin. What we know: The lucky winner matched all six numbers in Monday's Lotto Texas drawing; 19, 21, 25, 45, 47, 52. The winning ticket was sold at the Winners Corner TX LLC store on Rockwood Lane. The winner picked their own numbers and chose the cash option. RELATED: Lotto Texas ticket sold in Austin wins $83.5 million prize The estimated $83.5 million jackpot was the fifth-largest in the history...

The trendy Texas city of Forth Worth has bumped Austin from its rank as the fourth-largest city in the Lone Star State. The state capital was knocked down a place, making it the fifth-largest city by population in the state, according to the Texas Demographic Center's 2023 population estimates report. The report showed population figures for Texas counties and communities for July 1, 2023, and January 1, 2024. Austin was ranked below Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Fort Worth. The capital had a population estimation of 986,928, compared to 989,878 for Fort Worth, which saw a 7.7 percent increase from...