Texas Standard media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Texas Standard one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Texas Standard biased?
The rating organisations do not give Texas Standard one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Texas Standard left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Texas Standard one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Texas Standard reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Texas Standard are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Texas Standard has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Texas Standard’s own report linked underneath.
Bo French, a Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, posted a photo mocking South Asian students at a University of Texas football game. Republican leaders John Cornyn and Dustin Burrows condemned the post, and former adviser Karl Rove said he will vote for Democrat Jon Rosenthal.
Texas Standard reported it asToday on Texas Standard: UT students respond after Bo French targets them online (opens Texas Standard in a new tab)
Landowners, ranchers, and business owners in Texas are suing the Trump administration to stop border wall construction in the Big Bend region. The lawsuit argues the government is misusing powers to waive environmental and other regulations in an area with low rates of illegal crossings.
Texas Standard reported it asTexas landowners sue federal government over border wall plans (opens Texas Standard in a new tab)
Two protesters were arrested outside the Republican National Committee's midterm convention in Dallas. Mounted police and officers in riot gear were deployed as demonstrators marched near the venue. Organisers estimated up to 10,000 people would attend separate rallies.
Texas Standard reported it asA ‘Trumpapalooza’ in 2026. Reagan in 1984. Two GOP conventions in Dallas, but times have changed (opens Texas Standard in a new tab)
Former Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s ex‑director of law enforcement, David Maxwell, appears in a campaign ad endorsing Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico. Maxwell, who reported Paxton to the FBI and won a $6.6 million judgment, says Paxton ended his five‑decade career.
Texas Standard reported it asDemocrats see an opening in deep-red West Texas thanks to Talarico (opens Texas Standard in a new tab)
ICE officer Christian Castro has been federally charged with making false statements about the January shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis. Federal authorities had initially accused Sosa-Celis of assaulting an officer, but dropped charges after video evidence emerged.
Texas Standard reported it asICE agent arrested in Texas federally charged with lying about Minneapolis shooting, AP reports (opens Texas Standard in a new tab)
Texas hospitals are set to lose an estimated $27 million per day in Medicaid funding as the new fiscal year begins. The shortfall is due to the Trump administration withholding approval for approximately $9.8 billion in federal funds across three programs, primarily affecting the Comprehensive Hospital Increase Reimbursement Program (CHIRP).
Texas Standard reported it asTexas hospitals expect to lose $27 million a day in Medicaid funding (opens Texas Standard in a new tab)
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged in a Minneapolis shooting has been released from a Texas jail. A judge refused to order his extradition to Minnesota, citing jurisdictional issues, while Texas Governor Greg Abbott awaits an internal state investigation.
Texas Standard reported it asICE officer in Minnesota-Texas extradition fight is freed from jail (opens Texas Standard in a new tab)
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott paused construction in Big Bend National Park on Monday after bipartisan criticism. The move follows concerns from Texas officials and local residents about environmental damage and the project's necessity.
Texas Standard reported it asTrump administration pauses border construction in Big Bend National Park (opens Texas Standard in a new tab)
A federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants, affecting roughly 1,100 people. The decision follows a Supreme Court ruling that narrowed courts' ability to review TPS terminations, and is part of a broader effort to roll back protections for multiple countries.
Texas Standard reported it asTPS recipients hope a potential change of power in Congress provides relief from deportation (opens Texas Standard in a new tab)
A federal judge in Washington permitted the US Department of Homeland Security to continue building a border wall section using levees near Presidio, Texas. The decision overrides local objections that the construction could cause flooding and violate environmental laws.
Texas Standard reported it asJudge declines to block Big Bend area border wall (opens Texas Standard in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Texas Standard.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- texasstandard.org
- Seen publishing on
- texasstandard.org
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
9 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Texas Standard is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Texas Standard’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 32 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 September 2026. Ratings pulled 3 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Texas Standard, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Texas Standard publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.