Texas Monthly – August 2019

TEXAS MONTHLY 5

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Crowdsourcing

Justice

It took only a handful of people to

wrongly convict Ed Ates of murder.

It took an army to free him from

prison. Now comes the hard part.

by Michael Hall

70

The Pastor and

The President

Why has Robert Jeffress, the leader

of the First Baptist Dallas megachurch,

turned himself into one of Donald

Trump’s most fervent advocates?

by Michael J. Mooney

FEATURES 08.

A shrine to the Virgen de Guadalupe in the border town of Presidio on May 11, 2019.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SALCIDO

74

Postcards From

The Border

Two native sons travel the length of the

Texas-Mexico border to capture the

region’s untold stories.

text by Oscar Cásares;

photographs by Joel Salcido