The media ledger
Who's covering Texas
Every fact sheet on this site is built from other outlets' reporting. This page counts who those outlets are and which way they lean, so you can see the slant in what gets reported before it ever reaches you.
Where the reporting came from
4,183 news reports behind 1,460 fact sheets in the past 30 days.
- 464 left-leaning (11%)
- 83 center (2%)
- 121 right-leaning (3%)
- 3515 not rated (84%)
Covered by one side only
Stories where every rated outlet leans the same way. Nobody from the center or the other side reported them, at least not where this site could find it.
Left only: 287
- Texas Senate race between Paxton and Talarico nears Election Day
- Latino voter outreach groups campaign in South Texas before election
- Texas election officials provide voting guidance ahead of Election Day
- Flu activity rises in North Texas and southern states
- Texas early voting surpasses 7 million ahead of 2026 midterm elections
- Texas governor race between Abbott and Hinojosa tightens ahead of Election Day
- Learjet carrying Texas family crashes in Florida, kills all nine aboard
- ICE officer indicted on aggravated assault charge in Harris County
- ICE uses parking lots in Austin and New York without owner authorization
- Man dies after house fire in Dallas on Sunday night
- Strong to severe storms expected in North Texas Monday night into Tuesday
- Storm forecast to bring thunderstorms to Texas on Election Day
- ICE agent indicted for running over immigrant in Houston
- Justice Department sends over 1,000 election monitors to polling places nationwide
- Hispanic early voting turnout in Texas surges compared to 2022
Right only: 69
- Man held in Texas on rape charge after federal judge ordered release
- Austin firefighters rescue raccoon with head stuck in tree hollow
- Texas Democratic Senate nominee Talarico says he would work with Trump
- Texas property rights group launches campaign in seven states for landowner rights
- U.S. Senate candidate Talarico praises congressional candidate Haynes at campaign event
- Democrats lead in polls days before 2026 US midterm elections
- Study finds late-night TV hosts made 87 percent of Senate candidate jokes about Republicans
- Freddie James, legendary Texas high school football coach, dies at 89
- Democrats deploy religious figures in Texas Senate race against Trump
- No. 22 Arizona faces No. 13 Texas Tech in Big 12 football game
- Man in zombie costume stabs two at Austin coffee shop
- USDA announces loan guarantee for beef processing facility in Texas
- Federal immigration operation arrests 4,170 people in Texas in 10 days
- Latin Grammy winner Pulido campaigns for Texas 15th congressional district
- Federal jury convicts Indian national of illegally voting in Texas
The outlets
| Outlet | Leans | Fact sheets |
|---|---|---|
| CBS News | Lean Left | 94 |
| The Texas Tribune | Lean Left | 88 |
| The Texas Tribune | Lean Left | 81 |
| Click2Houston | Not rated | 67 |
| KSAT | Not rated | 60 |
| Dallas News | Not rated | 54 |
| Houston Public Media | Not rated | 51 |
| Yahoo | Lean Left | 50 |
| Houston Chronicle | Not rated | 46 |
| WFAA | Not rated | 43 |
| AOL.com | Not rated | 41 |
| Fox News | Right | 41 |
| FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth | Not rated | 40 |
| Breitbart News | Right | 39 |
| KVUE | Not rated | 36 |
| KXAN Austin | Not rated | 35 |
| Texas Public Radio | TPR | Not rated | 35 |
| FOX 7 Austin | Not rated | 34 |
| KEYE | Not rated | 34 |
| WOAI | Not rated | 33 |
| KFOX | Not rated | 32 |
| Texas Scorecard | Not rated | 32 |
| ABC13 Houston | Not rated | 31 |
| San Antonio Express-News | Not rated | 31 |
| Austin American-Statesman | Not rated | 30 |
| KABB | Not rated | 30 |
| cbs19.tv | Not rated | 30 |
| Dallas Express | Not rated | 28 |
| kens5.com | Not rated | 28 |
| FOX 26 Houston | Not rated | 27 |
| Texas Border Business | Not rated | 26 |
| Hoodline | Not rated | 25 |
| KHOU | Not rated | 25 |
| KTSM 9 News | Not rated | 25 |
| NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth | Not rated | 25 |
| Sports Illustrated | Not rated | 25 |
| USA Today | Not rated | 24 |
| Chron | Not rated | 22 |
| Newsweek | Center | 21 |
| Reuters | Center | 21 |
| El Paso Times | Not rated | 19 |
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Not rated | 19 |
| KBTX News 3 | Not rated | 19 |
| KLTV.com | Not rated | 18 |
| CNN | Lean Left | 17 |
| KDBC | Not rated | 17 |
| KUT | Not rated | 17 |
| KVIA | Not rated | 17 |
| Texas Standard | Not rated | 17 |
| www.kera.org | Not rated | 16 |
| Community Impact Newspaper | Not rated | 15 |
| New York Post | Right | 15 |
| Spectrum News | Not rated | 15 |
| cedarnews.net | Not rated | 15 |
| AP News | Lean Left | 14 |
| KCBD | Not rated | 14 |
| The Guardian | Left | 14 |
| The Hill | Center | 14 |
| The New York Times | Lean Left | 14 |
| Yahoo Sports | Lean Left | 14 |
And 1187 more outlets with fewer sheets.
What the outlets aimed at each party
Stories that put a party in a bad light: accusations, attack ads, investigations, false claims, controversies. The first column is how many of those stories about each party reached this site from the outlets it reads. The second is how many this site shows, which is always the same number for both. Any gap between the columns is the outlets' imbalance.
| The outlets ran | Shown here | |
|---|---|---|
| Against Republicans | 147 | 111 |
| Against Democrats | 42 | 42 |
The outlets went after Republicans 3.5 to 1.
The AI, kept in check
An AI writes each fact sheet from the outlets' reporting, and it picks up their habits. When it writes a loaded word such as "embattled," "extremist," "fugitive" or "socialist" in its own voice, the sheet is thrown out and rewritten in plain terms.
10 times in the past 30 days the AI reached for the outlets' loaded language and was made to rewrite.
How these outlets get here
Most stories on this site are found through Google News headlines, plus Texas government records and a few direct feeds. Google decides which outlets appear in its headlines. This site then requires two separate outlets before a story goes up. Both steps shape what you see, and this page exists so you can see how.
Leanings are the AllSides Media Bias Ratings for each outlet's online news. Outlets AllSides hasn't rated show as "Not rated." Government records aren't counted.
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