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Leslie Rangel
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✍🏽Sr. Editor of Investigations
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🎥 Emmy Nominated + UN Recognized Journalist
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November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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At the University of Texas, in journalism school, is where @iamleslierangel.bsky.social learned about La Matanza, or the “The Massacre,” a brutal period of violence against Mexicans in Texas from 1910 to 1920. U.S. Army soldiers and the Texas Rangers lynched hundreds Mexicans during La Matanza.
September 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Hands down, the best piece on the swirl of events around Rep. Nicole Collier, the threat to arrest her, and the wellspring of support that has emerged.

From @thebarbedwire.com's @oliviamesser.bsky.social and @iamleslierangel.bsky.social
New from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and me:

Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight. The slept in jail; are banned from Capitol grounds for a year.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/19/h...
‘Women Have Always Been on the Front Lines.’ How Five Women at the Texas Capitol Stood Up to ‘Fascism.’
Rep. Nicole Collier, a Fort Worth Democrat, spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Four enraged women refused to leave her side.
thebarbedwire.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM