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- Sep 17, 2026
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- Jul 14, 2026
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Greg Abbott keeps rewarding violence. Texas has seen this before (opens the original)
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Historian and author Michael Phillips, SMU Professor Rick Halperin and Hadi Jawad, co-founder and president of Human Rights Dallas, submitted the op-ed below on the history of Texas governors, including Greg Abbott, embracing mob violence. Christian Castro, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, clearly lied about shooting a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis on January 14. After that incident, he returned to his home state of Texas. Once there, he enjoyed Gov.Greg Abbott’s protection. Abbot
Demolishing City Hall would continue the city's erasure of its civil rights history (opens the original)
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Historian and author Dr. Michael Phillips, SMU Professor Dr. Rick Halperin and Hadi Jawad, co-founder and president of Human Rights Dallas, submitted the op-ed below on Dallas City Hall’s position as an important historical landmark. Should largely absentee Mayor Eric Johnson and his City Council allies succeed in their plan to ditch Dallas’s acclaimed City Hall, they might not only trigger the demolition of an architectural landmark. In the process, they might also destroy a public square where
Trump is bulldozing the site of a Texas massacre. It’s time to remember Porvenir (opens the original)
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Scholar and author Michael Phillips, SMU Professor Rick Halperin and Hadi Jawad, co-founder and president of Human Rights Dallas, submitted the op-ed below on how the Trump administration’s border plans may destroy a precious Texas historic site. Back in 2018, Texas led the nation in removing Confederate monuments. Critics of that movement, like former state Rep. Brandon Creighton, often complained about activists “erasing history.” Creighton and other defenders of Confederate monuments, however
53 years later, Santos Rodriguez's murder still demands Dallas reckon with its past (opens the original)
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Historian and author Michael Phillips, SMU Professor Rick Halperin and Hadi Jawad, co-founder and president of Human Rights Dallas, submitted the op-ed below about the upcoming anniversary of 12-year-old Santos Rodriguez’s murder on July 24. In a just world, Santos Rodriguez would already be eligible for Social Security benefits. He might have spent the summer planning his grandchildren’s birthday parties, enjoying the World Cup, or maybe relaxing during travel paid for by a lifetime of steady,
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