Candice Bernd

Austin

Senior Editor and Reporter at Truthout

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The Crypto Racket

1 month ago | portside.org | Candice Bernd

The Crypto Racket Published May 10, 2025 This story was cross-posted from the Texas Observer, an investigative news organization that covers Texas communities whose stories are often ignored.
The Crypto Racket

1 month ago | prospect.org | Candice Bernd

This story was cross-posted from the Texas Observer, an investigative news organization that covers Texas communities whose stories are often ignored.
The Crypto Racket

1 month ago | texasobserver.org | Candice Bernd

Editor’s Note: This story is copublished with The Nation. Read their version here. The five members of the Navarro County Commissioners Court had rarely seen such a large audience for their Tuesday meeting as they saw in October 2024, when they weighed a Colorado-based company’s application for a multimillion-dollar tax abatement—an incentive to expand its already-established cryptocurrency mine near the small North Texas town of Corsicana.
Pride and Prejudice in Princeton, Texas

Nov 12, 2024 | texasobserver.org | Candice Bernd

Rowan Hunter, 15, stepped up to the lectern at Princeton City Hall in July 2021. It was one of their first acts as part of the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Princeton Texas Diverse (PTX Diverse). Pride—shorthand for the international celebration of queer rights typically observed in June—“was a place where you see all these people welcome, why would you want to take that away?” they asked city council members.
Facing PR Crisis, UT Austin Administrators Manufacture Myth of Outside Agitators

May 6, 2024 | truthout.org | Candice Bernd

Austin, Texas—Although Travis County Attorney Delia Garza initially dropped criminal trespass charges against the first 57 people arrested while protesting in solidarity with Palestine on the University of Texas (UT) at Austin campus on April 24, her office is approaching a second batch of charges stemming from an attempt to reestablish an impromptu encampment on April 29 differently: Garza has yet to say whether she will pursue a second tranche of trespass charges.
North Texas Organizers Knock Doors to Stop $50M “Cop City Dallas” Bond Package

Apr 22, 2024 | truthout.org | Candice Bernd

Dallas, Texas—On a balmy, overcast morning in South Dallas, more than 20 organizers slowly trickled onto the playground benches at Glendale Park. Armed with snacks, flyers and canvassing scripts, they soon paired off and headed to their respective neighborhood turfs for the day. Their goal?
Biden’s So-Called LNG Export Freeze Sacrifices Gulf South Communities

Apr 8, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Candice Bernd

Above photo: Bekah Hinojosa poses outside a planned fracked gas, or so-called liquefied natural gas (LNG), export terminal at the Port of Brownsville in South Texas on March 30, 2024. Environmental justice advocates in Texas aren’t waiting on Biden — or anyone else for that matter — to save them.
Biden’s So-Called LNG Export Freeze Sacrifices Gulf South Communities - Again

Apr 8, 2024 | truthout.org | Candice Bernd

In late March, Texas joined a 15-state federal lawsuit led by Louisiana to block the Biden administration’s executive order pausing new permits for terminals that export fracked gas, or so-called liquefied natural gas (LNG). Separately, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan created a special committee to investigate President Joe Biden’s permitting freeze, a move that has not only drawn backlash from the oil industry and Texas GOP, but also Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Stop Cop City Takes Fight to Tucson as GA Aims to Expand Domestic Terror Statute

Feb 26, 2024 | truthout.org | Candice Bernd

UPDATE: At least six activists were arrested later Monday after blockading the entrance to a gated community in Fountain Hills, Arizona, by duck-taping their hands to concrete-filled tires. An executive of Nationwide Insurance allegedly lives in the subdivision.
Locals Say Eagle Pass Is Being Invaded by Christian Nationalists - Not Migrants

Feb 5, 2024 | truthout.org | Candice Bernd

Eagle Pass, Texas—Residents of the border town at the center of an ongoing feud between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration made it clear over the weekend that the only people they see as “invaders” in their community are the 14 Republican governors and a convoy of Christian nationalists calling themselves “God’s Army.”“There has been an invasion, but I’m not talking about the immigrants.