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In the early morning hours of January 28, 1918, fifteen men and boys were pulled from their beds in the small farming village of Porvenir, marched to a bluff above the Rio Grande, and shot to death by a force that was supposed to be protecting them.

Porvenir was a quiet community in remote Presidio County, families who farmed cotton, irrigated their land off the river, and ran a small school for their children. A month earlier, raiders believed to be tied to the Mexican Revolution had attacked a nearby ranch and killed a mail carrier. There was no road connecting Porvenir to the ranch, and nothing tied its residents to the crime, but in the tension of the border at that time, suspicion fell on them anyway. Texas Rangers searched the village once and found nothing. Days later, they came back.

Before dawn on January 28, Rangers from Company B, several local ranchers, and soldiers from the U.S. Eighth Cavalry separated fifteen unarmed men and boys, the youngest just sixteen, from their families and led them to the riverbank. None of them survived. The remaining residents fled across the Rio Grande into Mexico that same night, carrying their dead with them.

When the truth came out months later, the governor disbanded the Ranger company involved and forced their captain to resign. A state investigation the following year found the Rangers guilty of gross violations of the law. It would take a full century, until 2018, before a Texas Historical Marker finally stood at the site to tell the truth of what happened there.

Some history is hard to tell. It still deserves to be told.

A Letter to My Fellow Black Texans About Juneteenth The day commemorating the emancipation of slaves in Texas says as much about our future as our past.

Happy Juneteenth, California!

As we mark the full realization of the Emancipation Proclamation, we reflect on the centuries of struggle and triumph that led to this milestone, and to the progress we see today.

Together, we look to the future with hope.

Farmers backed Trump. Now some say they’re losing patience.

Rural approval of the president falls to a new low amid rising bankruptcies and trade uncertainty, and some farmers accuse the GOP of making a hard business harder.

Farmers backed Trump. Now some say they’re losing patience. Rural approval of the president falls to a new low amid rising bankruptcies and trade uncertainty, and some farmers accuse the GOP of making a hard business harder.

Donald Trump’s comments at the G7 summit revealed that the president doesn’t understand the war he started—or the words that come out of his own mouth, Tom Nichols argues. https://theatln.tc/QN2tk2HE

In France this week, Trump described the Iranians who stepped in to replace the regime leaders killed in U.S. strikes as “very rational people”—a group that includes the new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, and the still-standing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, “all of whom have shown no compunction about lashing out in any direction during Trump’s ‘cease-fire,’” Nichols writes.

In another statement discussing the Iranian nuclear program, the president contradicted statements made in previous months in which he said that Iran must hand over its stockpile of highly enriched uranium. “It’s not very valuable stuff,” he said this week, “but I think psychologically we wanna get it.”

“In the past, Trump has tried to conjure new circumstances by speaking them aloud and attempting to wish them into existence. His tired garble in France, however, is something different,” Nichols argues. “It suggests that Trump, more than ever, is unable to fathom what’s happening in the world around him and has been reduced to turning all of his previous statements upside down.”

Read more at the link.

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These Texans Are Turning on Trump—and James Talarico Is There to Greet Them

“Hispanics are now becoming the final swing vote remaining in the country.” https://www.thebulwark.com/p/hispanic-voters-latinos-these-texans-are-turning-on-trump-and-james-talarico-is-there-to-greet-them?utm_source=fb_page&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=subs&fbclid=IwY2xjawSiPHxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFsYXVVV1F5RmhiYURhOUQ0c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkQ8z-C3jm9u6QcJ3V05k8AIyOoaav1NJENserwox59Aru0vIGW9zde_Zy7o_aem_Cum_8h4jFj8kbohzXzvf5Q

These Texans Are Turning on Trump—and James Talarico Is There to Greet Them “Hispanics are now becoming the final swing vote remaining in the country.”

Presidents Biden, Obama, Bush and Clinton, and the First Ladies, pose for a photo ahead of the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center.