Gaige Davila - Deceleration

SpaceX 'Bombing,' Climate Collapsing, But Did a Japanese Bank Just Get Queasy on South Texas LNG?

Gaige Davila rounds up the latest news from the coast.

By Gaige Davila

/ 6 Oct 2026

SpaceX 'Bombing,' Climate Collapsing, But Did a Japanese Bank Just Get Queasy on South Texas LNG?

Last Stand for Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge?

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.

By Gaige Davila and Texas Observer

/ 25 Sep 2026

Last Stand for Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge?

How Brownsville's Growth Coalitions are Making Laguna Madre Unlivable

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

By Gaige Davila

/ 10 Sep 2026

How Brownsville's Growth Coalitions are Making Laguna Madre Unlivable

The RGV's 'Horrorculture' & the Fight to Protect Native Roots

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.

By Gaige Davila

/ 4 Sep 2026

The RGV's 'Horrorculture' & the Fight to Protect Native Roots

Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings

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.

By Gaige Davila

/ 21 Jul 2026

Brownsville’s Saronic Autonomous War Plans Echo a Confederate’s Post-Civil War Profit-Seeking Killings

The Billionaire's 'Betrayal' of Freeport, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana

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

By Gaige Davila

/ 11 Jun 2026

The Billionaire's 'Betrayal' of Freeport, Texas, and Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Texas Organizers Go to Tokyo to Tell Japan and its Banks: Stop Funding U.S. LNG

Seeking fossil fuel superpower status, Japan and its megabanks have spent at least $38B on natural gas projects in Texas alone.

By Gaige Davila

/ 20 May 2026

Texas Organizers Go to Tokyo to Tell Japan and its Banks: Stop Funding U.S. LNG

The Corpus Christi Water Countdown to 'Day Zero'

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

By Gaige Davila

/ 8 May 2026

The Corpus Christi Water Countdown to 'Day Zero'

Valero’s Port Arthur Refinery Explosion: Fossil Fuels Will Always Spoil the Good Life

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

By Gaige Davila

/ 9 Apr 2026

Greetings From Occupied Brownsville: The Dystopian Future Arrives on Texas's Lower Coast

'Economic development' in the RGV means autonomous warfare cozying up alongside LNG buildout and space colonization as wild spaces are paved and locals increasingly feel the pinch of rising rents and groceries.

By Gaige Davila

/ 31 Mar 2026

Greetings From Occupied Brownsville: The Dystopian Future Arrives on Texas's Lower Coast

'Super Collider': Autonomous Warfare, Space Colonization, & Climate Collapse Meet in Brownsville

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

By Gaige Davila

/ 27 Mar 2026

'Super Collider': Autonomous Warfare, Space Colonization, & Climate Collapse Meet in Brownsville

Coastlines/Faultlines: Through the New Orientation

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

By Gaige Davila

/ 5 Feb 2026

Coastlines/Faultlines: Through the New Orientation