This page was last updated on July 13, 2008, in order to reflect changes in TNTR editorial vision.

Content on this website consists mainly of blog posts and podcasts, and we would love to add more people to our blogroll. Contact us ASAP if you're even remotely interested. In addition, the New Texas Radical (TNTR) strongly encourages reader submissions of original news articles, columns, essays, and photojournalism. So long as the original author consents, we don't mind reposting content published elsewhere.

We especially prefer submissions dealing with themes relevant to Texas: capital punishment, immigration, border militarization, Texas politics, etc. Press releases, announcements, and communiques from radical and progressive groups in Texas are also acceptable submissions. We don't mind posting event notices. User emails and comments are nice to read as well.

TNTR would especially love to see submissions that dissect what other publications are saying, whether it's UT's Daily Texan, Corpus Christi's Caller Times, Austin's American-Statesman, the Dallas Morning News, or any other newspaper in Texas. By connecting local events to broader phenomena and institutional forces, we can contribute to a much richer understanding of current events. And by challenging the dominant media institutions, we can expand the prospects for democracy. There's a lot of crap out there, and we need to sort through it.

Ideally, submissions would feature a theoretical component. As far as TNTR's editorial vision is concerned, we work from three basic assumptions:

• Corporations and Corporate Media

  Our first assumption, and a starting point for many alternative and radical media outlets, is that multinational corporations own the dominant media institutions and accordingly control their content. Moreover, divisions of labor and hierarchies in general are undesirable features of our institutions, media or otherwise. Bottom-up social transformation means the institutions we create cannot replicate the very features of society that we're trying to do away with. There is no limit to how involved a person can be with TNTR.

• Objectivity in Journalism

  Our second assumption is that objectivity in journalism is neither possible nor desirable. The status quo emphasis on using government officials and other elites as sources undermines democracy by silencing the voices of activists, human rights workers, and everyday people. A system of partisan or popularly-controlled media--a multitude of voices--is preferable to a system based on illusions of objectivity.

• Left-Wing Analysis
  

  Our third assumption is that left-wing politics are basically on the right track, and that institutional analysis adds an important dimension that mainstream media generally ignore. Much of the writing we feature comes from an anarchist, syndicalist, or left-wing Marxist orientation.

There are no definites, however. We will accept any worthwhile submission, and have even published content by political conservatives. We're an odd duck.

Submissions can be as long as they need to. We consider endnotes a bonus. There are no deadlines, although timeliness helps. We adhere loosely to our own stylebook (when we feel like it). If you're unsure of your ability to contribute, don't be: We will work with writers to edit pieces until both the writer and editors are content with the submission. Any person, young or old, can contribute solid content, as far as we're concerned.

When submitting, please include a two to three sentence biography of the author. 

Currently, we publish online only. Depending on resource availability and feasibility, we might someday produce a newsprint publication as well.

To get involved or submit a piece, either use the news submission feature (available to logged in users only) or our contact form.