What Is This?
Welcome to Dispatches From Texas— the realest damn thing you'll read about Texas life.
This isn’t a travel blog. It ain’t a politics site. And it sure as hell isn’t some influencer's digital scrapbook of barbecue joints and cowboy cosplay.
This is the dispatch from inside the beast — a raw, unfiltered, boots-on-the-ground exploration of what it's actually like to live in Texas.
Written by a native sixth generation Texan who is a lifelong observer, wanderer, and opinionated bastard with a camera, a pen, and a chip on his shoulder, this publication exists for the lost, the curious, and the newcomers who’ve been sold a dream without the fine print.
What You’ll Get
Street-Level Truth: No bullshit takes on Texas politics, culture, history, and daily life.
Expat Orientation: If you’re new here, I’ll help you understand what you’ve walked into. If you’ve been here, I’ll remind you why it’s so gloriously screwed up.
Personal Journalism: Stories that bleed. Rants with teeth. Observations with soul.
Rogue Advice: Taxes, counties, land, attitudes, unspoken rules — the stuff no one warns you about.
WHY THIS EXISTS
Because Texas is being mythologized, misunderstood, and monetized into something it’s not.
Because people are moving here by the thousands with zero clue what they’re stepping into.
Because someone has to say what’s actually happening — not from a studio, not from a think tank, but from inside the damn story.
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WHO THIS IS FOR
New Texans with questions and zero answers
Old Texans tired of fake narratives
Curious Americans watching the state reshape the nation
Anyone who prefers raw insight over clickbait
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