Steven Monacelli
Publisher and Co-Editor-in-Chief at Protean Magazine
Journalist at Freelance
Special Investigative Correspondent at The Texas Observer
special investigative correspondent @texasobserver • columnist @thebarbedwiretx • publisher @proteanmag • Signal: stevanzetti.12 • read/support my work 🔗👇
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2 weeks ago |
thebarbedwire.com | Steven Monacelli
Local lawmakers in Texas are responding to recent reports that some law enforcement agencies are using automated license plate reader technology to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions.
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4 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Steven Monacelli
4 hours agoThe Trump Admin Reportedly Wants An Office of Remigration. That's Alarming. It's a term popularized by far-right activists in Europe and white nationalists who want to remove all immigrants, regardless of citizenship status.
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4 weeks ago |
thebarbedwire.com | Steven Monacelli
Many law enforcement agencies across the nation, including in Texas, use networks of cameras to automatically track cars — and some are using them to support federal immigration enforcement. That’s the topline from data recently obtained through a public records request first reported by 404 Media that The Barbed Wire has independently reviewed.
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1 month ago |
thebarbedwire.com | Steven Monacelli
In the late 1940s through the 1950s, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy were leading figures in the Second Red Scare. The campaign of persecution targeted people accused, often falsely, of being communist and subjected them to public shaming, blacklists, and raids. You may know it better as McCarthyism. Why is this relevant to Texans in 2025? There’s an old saying apocryphally attributed to Mark Twain: History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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2 months ago |
dmagazine.com | Steven Monacelli
If you hadn’t already heard, it’s municipal election season in Dallas. Early voting has begun. And like budding flowers to springtime, so are burgeoning PACs to election season. Two new political action committees have recently distributed physical mailers and digital ads endorsing slates of Dallas city council candidates. But until now, the PACs’ funding has been a mystery. They were only recently created, and mandated financial reports weren’t released until this week.
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