Documentaries, news programs and podcasts where I’ve appeared:

Quakertown, USA Documentary Film

• I’m an interviewee in King Hollis and Lindell Singleton’s forthcoming documentary about the history and forced removal of the thriving Black “Quakertown” neighborhood in Denton, Texas. Find me in the trailer here.

Above All Else Documentary Film

• I appear in several scenes in Filmmaker John Fiege’s documentary film about my and my friends’ campaign to blockade the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline in East Texas in 2012. Find me in the trailer here. Above All Else is available to rent on Amazon Prime.

Blockadia Rising Documentary Film

• I appear in several scenes in my husband’s first film, also about my and my friends’ campaign to blockade the southern leg of of the Keystone XL pipeline in East Texas in 2012. (World renown journalist Naomi Klein attributes the origin of the term Blockadia, which she popularized as a catchall phrase for the anti-extractivist movement in her book This Changes Everything, to this film!)

Don’t Frack With Denton Documentary Film

• I appear in several scenes in mine and my husband’s co-written and co-produced documentary about our home town’s campaign to ban fracking in 2014. (To find out more about our film, visit the “Documentary” tab of this site.)

“The Takeaway” on Public Radio International

• Discussing my reporting on white supremacist incursions on college campuses in Texas

“Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang” on SiriusXM Progress

• Discussing my reporting on the environmental impacts of cryptomining in Texas

The Real News Network

• Discussing Don’t Frack With Denton, and what’s next for Denton’s struggle against fracking after Texas lawmakers passed House Bill 40

“The Hartmann Report” on Pacifica

• Discussing my reporting on the Carrizo/Comecrudo tribe’s occupation of a cemetery along Trump’s proposed border wall
• Discussing the passage of the First Step Act and its implications for the poor and marginalized

“The News with Paul DeRienzo” on WBAI

• Reporting live from the scene of campus Palestine solidarity protests at the University of Texas

“The Talkies” on KPFA

• Discussing my reporting on Trump’s federal police force and the for a potential constitutional crisis around Election Day

“This Is Hell!” on WNUR

• Discussing my reporting cryptomining and the climate crisis
• Discussing my reporting on the Carrizo/Comecrudo tribe’s occupation of a cemetery along Trump’s proposed border wall
• Discussing my investigation into the Dallas FBI’s monitoring of a Black activist as a so-called “Black Identity Extremist”
• Discussing my reporting team’s special investigation on the intersection of mass incarceration and environmental justice

“In This Climate” Podcast

• Discussing my reporting team’s special investigation on the intersection of mass incarceration and environmental justice

“Texas Matters” on KSTX

• Discussing my reporting on white supremacist incursions on college campuses in Texas

“Observer Radio” on KOOP

• Discussing Dentonites’ organizing to defend the town’s landslide vote to ban fracking and how Texans can build a movement to abolish the Railroad Commission

“Green & Red” Podcast

• Discussing my coverage of Gov. Greg Abbott’s DPS crackdown on student organizing at UT-Austin
• Discussing my coverage of Gov. Greg Abbott’s standoff with the feds over Eagle Pass
• Discussing my coverage of Gov. Greg Abbott’s pledge to pardon Daniel Perry
• Discussing my coverage of the struggle against “Cop City” in Atlanta
• Discussing my coverage of fascist anti-drag protests and pro-LGBT counterprotests
• Discussing my coverage of looming post-Roe criminalization of abortion in Texas

“Politics and Reality Radio” Podcast

• Discussing my coverage of the Green Party’s 2016 convention in Houston, Texas

“The Matthew Filipowicz Show” Podcast

• Discussing hunger strikes at private immigration detention centers in Washington State and Texas
• Discussing the epidemic of police brutality in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Discussing how Denton came to ban fracking and drone strike victims’ search for justice
• Discussing how Texas lawmakers are looking to gut local control laws because of Denton’s fracking ban and the lack of standardization in psychological evaluations for police applicants
• Discussing the the Republicans’ preemption of local control, Texas’s House Bill 40 and a hunger strike by asylum-seeking mothers incarcerated at the Karnes immigrant family jail
• Discussing local officials in Ohio petitioning Gov. John Kasich to return their right to regulate and/or ban fracking at the local level

“Political Analysis” on the Progressive Radio Network

• Discussing the epidemic of police-perpetrated sexual violence and the lack of comprehensive data on the subject

“Counterpoint” on WPKN

• Discussing my reporting of fascist groups targeting drag shows in Texas
• Discussing climate finance activism in the run-up to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow

“Kite Line” on WFHB

• Discussing my reporting team’s special investigation on the intersection of mass incarceration and environmental justice

“Houston IndyMedia” on KPFT

• Discussing Denton’s vote to ban fracking and the resulting lawsuits and backlash with activist Angie Holliday

“People’s Republic” on KOOP

• Discussing the Kinder Morgan’s Permian Highway Pipeline and HB 3557

D Magazine

• Friday Double Feature: Hold Your Breath For Election Results, In Denton And London

Denton Record-Chronicle

• Documentary crew heads to Paris for climate talks

Dallas Morning News

• Peace and Justice awards

SaportaReport

• Journalist to sue over police stop during training center protest coverage as free-speech complaints mount

OpEdNews

• Texas Journalist Embraces ‘Red State Rage’

 

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Citations

Outlets where my work has been cited or covered by another journalist:

Project Censored

• Military-Grade Drones to Operate over San Diego in 2020 (cited)
• Censored 2014: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012-1013 (cited)

The Intercept

• Pipeline Opponents Strike Back Against Anti-Protest Laws (cited)

The Washington Post

• Morning links: Mississippi families paying protection money to keep inmate relatives safe (cited)

USA Today

• The top things you should know about policing this week (partial coverage of collaborative special investigation)

Business Insider

• Amazon faces a union fight in Staten Island, where warehouse workers are energized by the failed drive in Alabama (coverage of my Truthout story)
• Report: Amazon illegally confiscated union pamphlets from a warehouse worker and creeped on a pro-union barbecue, NLRB says (cited)

The Nation

• The Police Violence We Aren’t Talking About (cited)

New York Magazine

• Police-Perpetrated Rape, Your New Horrifying Nightmare to Worry About (coverage of my Truthout story)

Texas Tribune

• How Texas activists turned drag events into fodder for outrage (cited)

Common Dreams

• Fight Climate Emergency by Nationalizing US Fossil Fuel Industry, Says Top Economist (cited tweet)
• ‘This Isn’t an Apology, It’s a Cover-Up’: ExxonMobil CEO Slammed for New Statement on Exposé (cited tweet)
• Leaked Docs From Inside ‘Omnicidal’ ExxonMobil Reveal Plan to Increase Climate-Killing Emissions (cited tweet)
• On Belonging to Earth—and a Shared Humanity (cited)

HuffPost

• Sen. Susan Collins Crowned ‘Snowflake Of The Year’ Over Chalk Drawing Freakout (cited tweet)
• On Denton’s Upcoming Referendum for a Fracking Ban (cited)

Mother Jones

• Report: America’s Prisons Are So Polluted They Are Endangering Inmates (coverage of collaborative special investigation)
• Stop Cop City Activists Turn Up the Heat on Nationwide Insurance in Arizona (cited)

Snopes

• No, the ‘Patriot Front’ Far-Right Rally in DC Was Not Faked (cited)

Salon

• “You see this? You see this?” Why videos of police misconduct are no panacea (cited)
• “Citizens in uniform”: The trajectory of the police away from law and accountability is getting greater every day (cited)

VICE

• Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, and White Nationalists Protested ‘Drag Bingo’ at Texas Church (cited)
• Amazon Launches Another Union-Busting Campaign (cited)

Daily Beast

• Marine Veteran Trains White Supremacists in Military Tactics (cited)

Teen Vogue

• Atlanta’s “Cop City” Is Putting Policing Before the Climate (cited)

Deceleration

• Texas State Troopers Called the Real ‘Outside Agitators’ at UT Austin Protests (Cited)

MinnPost

• From toxic prisons to sand’s scarcity, good reads for the holiday weekend (partial coverage of collaborative special investigation)
• Minneapolis crews attempt to open George Floyd Square for vehicle traffic a second time (partial coverage of my feature on Line 3 and Anishinaabe treaty rights)

Ms. Magazine

• Indigenous Women Lead the Movement to Stop Line 3 Pipeline: “This is Everything We Have” (cited)

Moyers & Company

• The Most Undercovered Stories of 2015 (cited)
• “Morning Reads” (cited)

Salina Journal

• Granny Brigade’s good deed conflicts with past stances (cited)

Atlanta Community Press Collective

• Protestors in Austin, Texas shut down Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’s talk at SXSW panel (cited tweets)

WABE News

• ‘Stop Cop City’ protesters argue with Atlanta mayor, disrupt SXSW event in Austin (cited)

FOX 5 Atlanta

• Watch: ‘Stop Cop City’ protesters confront Atlanta mayor at SXSW panel (cited tweet thread)

Colorlines

• READ: How Prisons Are Affected By Climate Change (coverage of collaborative special investigation)

Dame Magazine

• Police Turn a Blind Eye to Systemic Sexual Assault Problem (coverage of my Truthout story)

The Advocate

• Nazis, Patriot Front Converge at a Drag Bingo at Texas Church (cited tweet thread)

Mediaite

• Nixonian Hashtag #FridayNightMassacre Trends After Trump’s Postmaster Announces Mass Firings at USPS (cited tweet)

ThinkProgress

• ‘We are the minority and society doesn’t care’: The marriage between toxic waste and prisons (cited)

Daily Kos

• Hatred rumbles outside a Houston-area church holding a bingo fundraiser for transgender youth (cited tweet thread)

Treehugger

• Construction Begins on Keystone XL, Protesters Hit Back (cited)

Monthly Review

• The Fossil Fuels War (cited)

Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

• From Know Your Rights to Know Your Options (cited)

Vermont Journal of Environmental Law

• Out of the Melting Pot and Into the Polluted Cage: ICE Detention Centers are Exposing Immigrants to Toxins (cited)