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Texas Matters: A populist history of Texas

Friday, April 10, 2026 • Duration 29:00

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 fence cutters, the great cowboy strike and the struggle against the power of big business. The new book "The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South" challenges the common view of Texas history.

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

Friday, March 27, 2026 • Duration 28:59

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 Legends of Larry McMurtry.”

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Texas Matters: Music from behind the walls of Texas prisons

Friday, March 13, 2026 • Duration 28:59

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 punishment, rehabilitation, and the humanity of the men locked inside.

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Texas Matters: How Texas got religion

Monday, March 9, 2026 • Duration 28:59

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 lost based on performances of righteousness. The State Board of Education bends the nation’s textbooks to a conservative Lone Star gospel, and laws are passed based on Christian values. How did Texas become “one state under God"?

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

Sunday, February 22, 2026 • Duration 28:59

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, Memory and Heritage.”

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

Friday, February 13, 2026 • Duration 28:59

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 expectations of a presidential spouse with speeches, diplomacy, and palpable compassion as she encouraged the South to leave Jim Crow behind.

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

Saturday, January 31, 2026 • Duration 28:59

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, National Deputy Director of CAIR, says these are baseless conspiracy theories created for politics.

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Texas Matters: How Texans experience violence

Saturday, January 24, 2026 • Duration 28:59

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

Saturday, January 17, 2026 • Duration 28:59

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

Saturday, January 10, 2026 • Duration 28:59

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.

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