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2025's Hill County Floods Are Our State's New 'Whiplash Weather.' There Will be More.

Rapid shifts from extreme drought to deadly floods is a feature, not a bug, in our new fossil-fuels modified climate. Here's what you need to know.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 May 2026

2025's Hill County Floods Are Our State's New 'Whiplash Weather.' There Will be More.

Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

In April, one of the city’s three reservoirs received its first inflows in eight months. But narrowly avoiding an immediate disaster doesn’t mean that Corpus Christi has solved its water crisis.

By Dylan Baddour, Emily Salazar and Inside Climate News

/ 22 May 2026

Corpus Christi Postpones Water Emergency as ‘Super El Niño’ Offers an End to Drought

Maureen Galindo's Antisemitism Harms the Movements We Need to Beat Fascism

From Israel’s genocide to Trump’s mass deportation regime, the impunity of the powerful has broken our hearts. But as fascism consolidates, we must keep it from also breaking our brains by refusing the easy seduction of conspiracy thinking suddenly at the heart of Galindo's campaign for Congress.

By Marisol Cortez and Deceleration Staff

/ 20 May 2026

Maureen Galindo's Antisemitism Harms the Movements We Need to Beat Fascism

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

Border Walls & ‘Murder Buoys’: Emerging Risks Facing One of the Americas' Great Rivers—and Those Who Call Her Home

‘Every state a border state’ has shown the U.S. interior MAGA’s anti-immigrant furor, but on the actual southern boundary, border residents—and the Rio Grande they share—are bearing the fuller price of ever expanding militarization.

By Greg Harman

/ 19 May 2026

Border Walls & ‘Murder Buoys’: Emerging Risks Facing One of the Americas' Great Rivers—and Those Who Call Her Home

Cooking Inmates, Big Bend Border Wall, U.S. Immigration Betrayals, EPA on Data Centers, y Más

By Deceleration Staff

/ 17 May 2026

Cooking Inmates, Big Bend Border Wall, U.S. Immigration Betrayals, EPA on Data Centers, y Más

$1.7B Big Bend Border Wall Contract Awarded Amidst Public Confusion Over Plans

The contract comes just a week after Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said the agency would not build a wall in Big Bend National Park.

By Ayden Runnels and Texas Tribune

/ 16 May 2026

$1.7B Big Bend Border Wall Contract Awarded Amidst Public Confusion Over Plans

Dealing Gov. Abbott a Blow, Federal Judge Blocked (Most Of) SB4 This Week

SB4 would allow Texas to single-handedly take on federal immigration enforcement duties.

By Roxana Rojas

/ 16 May 2026

Dealing Gov. Abbott a Blow, Federal Judge Blocked (Most Of) SB4 This Week

Inmates are Cooking Inside Texas Prisons. Are Reforms Coming at Last?

Deceleration speaks with Amite Dominick, founder & president of Texas Prisons Community Advocates, about efforts to force the state to install potentially life-saving air conditioning.

By Greg Harman

/ 15 May 2026