Shootings by federal agents are proliferating since Donald Trump took office in 2025, several of them in Texas. To stop it from happening again, local elected officials and prosecutors are hunting for options that aren’t already foreclosed.

The region looks poised to return to its centrist-Democrat roots, as the president fails to bring down costs and the reality of mass deportations takes hold. But 2028 could be another test.

Gaige Davila rounds up the latest news from the coast.

Congress repeatedly shielded the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge from the border wall. Now, construction has begun—and an irrigation district lawsuit may be the only option left to buy time for lawmakers to act.

Speaking with a fellow dispossessed about the evolving horrors of 'economic development' on the Lower Texas Coast.

How self-loathing in the Rio Grande Valley helps facilitate ICE's war on our families, friends, neighbors...and systemic abuses of the land itself.

Immigration agents sped after a vehicle through a residential neighborhood on the same day of the agency’s traffic stop pause, reportedly endangering a mother and son—before pulling a gun on and briefly handcuffing a U.S. citizen.

Immigration agents sped after a vehicle through a residential neighborhood on the same day of the agency’s traffic stop pause, reportedly endangering a mother and son—before pulling a gun on and briefly handcuffing a U.S. citizen.

The ongoing ‘murder-suicide’ of our living Rio Grande Valley (ie. economic development) has the same billionaire overlord vibe as the slave-picked cotton profits fought for by ‘Rip’ Ford in 1865.

A 25-year-old died last month of “blunt force trauma due to a fall.” An Observer analysis found that the injury rate at "Starbase" was well above an industry national average.

'Parties in the ship channel and shrimping are over. Downtown is dead.' What went wrong started with industry promises.

Some Arizona school districts post board meeting videos online. Many don't. Three delete recordings in apparent violation of state law.

Records show how LNG special interests have shaped city and county leaders’ decisions to ignore Laguna Madre community concerns about a fossil fuel build-out.

Predictability, accountability, and hope, amidst a coastal city’s vanishing water supply.

Los registros revelan cómo los intereses especiales del GNL han moldeado las decisiones de los líderes municipales y del condado para ignorar las preocupaciones de la comunidad de Laguna Madre respecto a la expansión de los combustibles fósiles.

Special interests spent years influencing city and county leaders’ decisions to ignore Laguna Madre community concerns about a fossil fuel build-out.

The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Coastlines/Faultlines Correspondent Gaige Davila examines the recent explosion at Port Arthur and the allowances residents make for a paycheck.

'Coastlines/Faultlines' correspondent Gaige Davila reflects on the horrors of development—and loss of the wild—transforming the Lower Texas Coast.

Welcome to the Coastlines/Faultlines Newsletter, where I’ll be writing about what harms and flourishes the coastal communities of Texas and northern Mexico.