Sandi Villarreal

executive editor @TexasMonthly | religion. politics. wine. | past: EIC @Sojourners | hype: @WhisperPath Cellars | WSET 3 🍷

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

In dueling campaign stops in the Rio Grande Valley, Ken Paxton and James Talarico offered up their versions of Texas values. https://t.co/t2yBSNrzSt

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

How the federal government and Texas officials went to war against antifa: https://t.co/XhyF0jjqHq

[Forrest Wilder @Forrest4Trees]

Instead of a wall, the Trump admin plans to spend $2.6 billion on a vehicle barrier across the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande in West Texas. The only problem? It's impossible for vehicles to drive across 100-to-300 foot cliffs and a mud-choked river.

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[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

The Western District of Texas ruled against the state, allowing the mosque’s religious-freedom lawsuit against the funeral commission to proceed. https://t.co/LSpk0Ligsh

[Sandi Villarreal @Sandi]

that man does not look like that.

[Allegra Hobbs @AllegraEHobbs]

Dan Patrick's new podcast featuring a yassified Ken Paxton

[Sandi Villarreal @Sandi]

A beautiful and heartbreaking read about duty and single-mindedness but also about the love of a father. 🤍

https://t.co/VuCkrrvJwD

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

Muslim delegates at the party’s convention faced multiple attempts to eject them from the premises—at one point, they were told to leave the country. https://t.co/mGsQah49TW

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

How Greg Abbott’s Advisers Used a Little-Known State Agency to Legally Harass a Muslim Community, via @TexasMonthly
https://t.co/v48cEpyDga

[Ben Rowen @ben_c_rowen]

"In Texas, we don't punish people for living out their faith."

Anyway, we published this one last week: https://t.co/VkxIhKiNoh

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

NEW: Texas middle schoolers could be taught about a Christian revolutionary war movement that never existed. The so-called “Black Robe Regiment” is a favorite myth of Christian nationalists such as David Barton, who is advising a massive curricula overhaul https://t.co/5eS4YrGZEk

[Sandi Villarreal @Sandi]

.@mimiswartz on the hyper-femininity displayed in many shades of pink whilst hanging with the girls at TPUSA’s Women’s Leadership Summit. 👀

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[Sandi Villarreal @Sandi]

I couldn’t contribute to this collection bc it was too soon. I had to protect my peace. But let’s just say I’m glad to have been alone in a hotel room with a bag of Doritos and no one to see my reaction. Read my colleagues’ tick-tock of the horror here.
And always, #GoSpursGo

[Ben Rowen @ben_c_rowen]

I was asked to share my experience watching Game 4 for @TexasMonthly's oral history on the Spurs' collapse. I correctly identified it as a trap: https://t.co/qU6Elfplkn

[Ben Rowen @ben_c_rowen]

Rather than seek to bring a mosque into compliance for an alleged violation, Greg Abbott's advisers sought to strip it of its license to conduct sacred funeral rites altogether: https://t.co/VkxIhKiNoh

[Forrest Wilder @Forrest4Trees]

This is an incredible piece of reporting by
@nicogutteridge, who's barely old enough to buy a drink. Among other things, it offers a rare look into how
@GregAbbott_TX's inner circle operates—ruthlessly and possibly criminally.

https://t.co/OvBeavJuI5

[Ben Rowen @ben_c_rowen]

Greg Abbott's advisers used the Texas Funeral Service Commission as a weapon against a Muslim community. @NicoGutteridge's meticulous reporting spells out how, based on interviews with former staffers and thousands of emails, texts, and documents https://t.co/VkxIhKiNoh

[Sandi Villarreal @Sandi]

If you want to understand how whole communities in Texas suddenly become targets of the right, read this detailed report from @NicoGutteridge.

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

Exclusive: A Texas Monthly investigation into the Texas Funeral Service Commission’s probe of a Muslim community shows how Abbott used the agency as a weapon—placing a mosque and its congregants in the crosshairs of a GOP-led effort to combat what some Republicans have labeled the “Islamification” of Texas. https://t.co/nFy7PolHtB

[Sandi Villarreal @Sandi]

Shared some thoughts about my @spurs, alongside @mikehalltexas @dansolomon @jaybsauceda and other diehards from @TexasMonthly. I love us. 🩶🖤

https://t.co/IEGg4fOGbE

[Longreads @Longreads]

"But expertise only gets you so far in ballooning. Everyone, from the freshest-
faced rookie to the most experienced veteran, is at the mercy of the elements." —Katy Vine and Meher Yeda for @TexasMonthly #longreads

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[Don Harris @DonHarris4]

Got the honor to surprise the sisters with a new playground and Bus for St. John Bosco thanks to Harvey Najim Foundation