Welcome to the Wild Texas newsletter! Pop some champagne because today is our one-month anniversary. (Please clap 👏.) If you’re joining us for the first time this week, welcome to the party. I’m Olivia, the editor-in-chief at The Barbed Wire. To date, our site — and its reporting — have appeared in City Cast Austin, Texas Standard, the Axios Dallas newsletter, Dan Kennedy’s Media Nation, D Magazine, former state Sen. Konni
Burton’s Hot Take newsletter (boy, she was mad!), TechDirt, and Semafor (whose exclusive on us was also picked up by Harvard’s Nieman Lab). We’ve also created a page just for Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15), and it’s growing more exceptional by the day.