In a new Second Reading Podcast, Jim Henson talks with journalists Perla Trevizo of The Texas Tribune and ProPublica and Andrew Rodriguez Calderón of the Marshall Project about their team's collaborative reporting on Operation Lone Star. The first of a projected series of articles by a team of reporters including Trevizo, Calderón, Lomi Kriel of the Tribune and Pro Publica, and Keri Blakinger of The Marshall project appeared this week in The Marshall Project, ProPublica, and The Texas Tribune.
The conversation touches on Texas attitudes toward border security spending by the state. For reference, the graphic below breaks down results on a question about state spending on border security from the February 2022 University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Too much | 44% | 25% | 5% |
| Too little | 16% | 39% | 62% |
| About the right amount | 23% | 17% | 25% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 18% | 19% | 8% |
About the Second Reading podcast. The podcast has been produced intermittently by Jim Henson for the Texas Politics Project, with production support from UT's Liberal Arts Development Studio, since 2016. You can find past episodes and subscribe to the Second Reading podcast in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher.