Our state once wanted residents to know what politicians were saying and doing behind closed doors. Now leaders are redacting most everything.

Months before the governor’s proclamation, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy emailed DPS a report that levies similar evidence against the Muslim civil rights group.

Last spring, Plano’s EPIC City was the center of right-wing outrage. The governor’s inner circle helped direct the funeral commission’s probe into its mosque, a Texas Monthly investigation reveals.

Mark Welsh III’s two-year tenure as president of Texas A&M University was marked with political controversies.

The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as members grew weary from the steady drumbeat of online posts accusing the university of embracing liberal ideology.

Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.

There will never be another John Sharp. It’s a sentiment shared by both his supporters and critics.

Documents obtained by The Battalion show President Mark A. Welsh III rejected WGST 205’s request to fulfill the social and behavioral sciences core credit.

Over 10,500 documents of emails, memos and messages obtained by The Battalion show right-wing website Texas Scorecard’s influence over A&M policy and personnel discussions.

When 17-year-old Kenedy White came to College Station, she envisioned a bright future for herself. After being bullied in high school, attending Blinn College with hopes of transferring to Texas A&M to study psychology seemed like a fresh start.

However, just weeks after she turned 18, White was allegedly assaulted in a cabin while on a student trip.

Kathleen McElroy was set to lead Texas A&M’s journalism program into the future, reviving the major after a 19-year hiatus. Yet just weeks after signing onto the position, she returned to the University of Texas at Austin with a $1 million settlement, and multiple A&M administrators have resigned — including former-President M. Katherine Banks. 

Chi Alpha World Fellowship, a student organization focused on bringing “students together into a spiritually nurturing environment,” has been accused of bringing students and members near a registered sex offender, The Battalion has learned.

Those familiar with Chi Alpha and and the offender, Daniel Savala, tell The Battalion that he was often introduced as “the holiest man alive,” alleging that group leaders gave Savala unhindered access to their Chi Alpha chapters at universities — allowing him a gateway to students and minors he allegedly sexually abused.

When Sándor Paull came to College Station to found Christland Church with a group of colleagues, students and university staffers paid no notice — and with dozens of options to choose from, Aggies viewed it as another option in a sea of religion. 

Christland is a “multiethnic, multigenerational church with a heart for students” located five minutes away from A&M. It has a 4.8-out-of-5-star rating on Google Reviews and a welcoming website. Most online search results about it are positive.

But sources close to the church, as well as court documents and leaked records, reveal a different story. Paull, vice president of a network of nationwide churches and lead pastor at Christland, has allegedly stood by while abuse and mistreatment have run rampant, even personally perpetuating them in some instances, according to insider sources. Yet he has faced no consequences; conversely, sources say he’s thrived — right in College Station.