Texas Matters

David Martin Davies

Texas is a big state with a growing, diverse population and as the population grows, the issues and challenges facing its residents multiply. Texas Matters is a statewide news program that spends half an hour each week looking at the issues and culture of Texas.

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20 episodes
Updated Friday

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Friday · 29 min
Texas Matters: The politics of data centers
This week on Texas Matters— How data centers have become a hot-button issue…
July 31 · 29 min
Former Austin Mayor Steve Adler reflects on the capital city's explosive growth, homelessness and threats to democracy
During his time as mayor of Austin from 2015 through 2023, the capital city…
July 10 · 29 min
Texas Matters: 'After the Flood' Episode 3 — Investigating the Camp Mystic deaths
Nearly a year after the July 4, 2025, floods in the Texas Hill Country, the…
July 2 · 29 min
Texas Matters: 'After The Flood' — Part 2
It has been one year since the tragic flash flood on the upper Guadalupe River…
June 26 · 29 min
Texas Matters: 'After the Flood' tells the story of the deadly 2025 Hill Country floods
The Texas Newsroom and FRONTLINE (PBS) are collaborating on a new five-part…
June 13 · 29 min
Texas Matters: TX Ag Commissioner Sid Miller blasts screwworm response and why Texas isn't producing more oil
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says the screwworm will continue to…
June 5 · 29 min
Texas Matters: Canadian mother says Dilley ICE detention center is a 'prison,' not a family facility
The ICE detention center in Dilley, Texas, is again at the center of a national…
May 29 · 29 min
James Talarico and the race for U.S. Senate
This week on Texas Matters we hear from the Democratic nominee for Senate —…
May 15 · 29 min
Texas Matters: SB4 is blocked, and West Texas border wall moves forward
This week on Texas Matters: Sections of SB4 are blocked — which would have…
May 12 · 28 min
Texas Matters: Pass The Biscuits, Pappy - Part Two
“Pass the Politics Pappy” explores the remarkable political rise of W. Lee…
May 11 · 28 min
Texas Matters: Watering down FEMA, abortion pill access, Texas prisons' compassionate release and questions about Texas ocean desal
This week on Texas Matters: How the Trump administration is watering down FEMA.…
April 18 · 28 min
Texas Matters: Sharia law rhetoric, abortion care fallout, and a contested death row case
This week on Texas Matters: Why “Sharia law” has become a flashpoint in Texas…
April 10 · 29 min
Texas Matters: A populist history of Texas
This week on Texas Matters — The story of Texas that we typically hear is one…
March 27 · 28 min
Texas Matters: Larry McMurtry and the making of the modern Texas myth
This week on "Texas Matters," the life and writing of Larry McMurtry and how he…
March 13 · 28 min
Texas Matters: Music from behind the walls of Texas prisons
This week on Texas Matters — forgotten songs from Texas prisons. Heartfelt…
March 9 · 28 min
Texas Matters: How Texas got religion
Millions of Texans tell pollsters religion is very important in their lives.…
February 22 · 28 min
Texas Matters: The meaning of the Spanish missions in San Antonio
Today on Texas Matters: The old Spanish missions of San Antonio — 300 years of…
February 13 · 28 min
Texas Matters: 1964, Civil Rights and the Lady Bird Special
In October 1964, as the South simmered under the tensions following the signing…
January 31 · 28 min
Texas Matters: CAIR refutes Texas claim of pushing Sharia law and terrorism
Governor Greg Abbott and other Republican state leaders are targeting CAIR, the…
January 24 · 28 min
Texas Matters: How Texans experience violence
Today on Texas Matters — A first-of-its-kind survey shows how Texans experience…