‘I’ve never worked with so many conservatives’: the Texans fighting the Big Bend border wall

Residents across party lines say Trump’s proposed wall threatens their homes, livelihoods and wilderness along the Rio Grande Last February, 41-year-old Molly Walker posted an Instagram story: a photo of herself standing in the desert, sunglasses hooked over the front of her shirt, jeans slung low beneath her exposed midriff. She held a protest sign fashioned from a pizza box, a hand-drawn heart framing the words “Border Cultura”, with “NO WALL” scrawled beneath. The text over the photo inclu...

By Diana Spechler