David Martin Davies
Host, "The Source," "Texas Matters"David Martin Davies is a veteran journalist with more than 30 years of experience covering Texas, the border and Mexico.
Davies is the host of "The Source," an hour-long live call-in news program that airs on KSTX at noon Monday through Thursday. Since 1999 he was been the host and producer of "Texas Matters," a weekly radio news magazine and podcast that looks at the issues, events and people in the Lone Star State.
Davies' reporting has been featured on National Public Radio, American Public Media's "Marketplace" and the BBC. He has written for The San Antonio Light, The San Antonio Express-News, The Texas Observer and other publications.
His reporting has been recognized with numerous awards. In 2019 Davies was honored with a National Edward R. MurrowAward for his radio documentary exposing human sex trafficking. Davies was also awarded in 2019 by the Public Radio News Directors Inc. for best talk show. Davies was named the 2008 Texas Radio Journalist of the Year by the Houston Press Club. In 2019 he was recognized with a First Amendment Awards by the Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The Association for Women in Communications San Antonio Professional Chapter honored Davies with the 2015 Edna McGaffey Media Excellence Headliner Award.
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Our continuing cover on How the Texas legislature is working to make voting more difficult in Texas. We hear from Beto O'Rourke and Chris Davis, elections administrator for Willison County and the legislative chair for the Texas Association of Elections Administrators. -
Texas Matters remembers classic dance halls, especially Club 21, which burned to the ground in 2010.
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Texas attorney Sidney Powell tries to walk back her big lie about mass election fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election. In a court filing she says no reasonable person would believe her outlandish claims, but tell that to the Texas Republican leadership who — in the name of voter integrity — are trying to ram through a set of bills that will make voting more difficult.
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Experts discuss how Abbott pushes a flawed narrative about voter fraud to justify voter suppression laws that will hurt minority voters and benefit Republicans seeking elected office.
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A 2003 interview with Maria Herrera Sobek about how the corrido captures the oral history of Mexican Americans in Texas.
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On Thursday state lawmakers held hearings looking for answers as to why did Texas suffer one of the largest black outs in the nation’s history? They wanted to know who was picking this banjo.
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After Texans were plunged into the darkness and freezing temperatures after a winter storm and collapse of the EROCT grid, what happens next? Who gets the blame? And will Texas admit that climate change is real?
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“Viva George: Celebrating Washington’s Birthday at the U.S. Mexico Border. The author is a professor of American Studies at George Washington University Elaine Pena — and she is a Laredo native.
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Can the 25th Amendment be used to remove President Trump from power?
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This episode will re-air on Thursday, December 24, 2020.Despite little national popularity, the genre of music known as the "West Side Sound" was a…
