David Martin Davies
Senior Reporter and Host, "The Source," "Texas Matters"dmdavies@tpr.org
Twitter: @DavidMartinDavi
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 2022,2021 and 2020 Davies was recognized with first place awards for News/Public Affairs by the Public Media Journalists Association.
In 2019 Davies was honored with a National Edward R. Murrow Award 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.
Davies is the author and creator of the comic "San Antonio Secret History." He is the co-author of the book "San Antonio 365"
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A new book examines how and why politicians lie, and why Republicans are leading the war against the truth. We hear from Bill Adair, the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact and author of the new book "Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, why Republicans do it more, and how it could burn down our democracy."
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Steve Allison is a the current Representative for Bexar County's House District 121. He won't be on the ballot this election after losing in the Republican primary. We hear how Allison sees this election and what the next legislative session might look like.
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Magic mushrooms are banned federally in the United States, but some swear by the life-changing experiences they have on the psychedelic.
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Join TPR for a special, in-person event of The Source.
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There is a complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood. History is full of women without children—some who chose childless lives, others who wanted children but never had them, and still others who are somewhere in between. Modern women considering how and if children fit into their lives are products of their political, ecological, and cultural moment. But they are not alone.We hear from Peggy O'Donnell Heffington about her book “Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother.”
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Roberson was scheduled to be executed on Thursday but an unprecedented legal move, a subpoena from the Texas House, saved him from lethal injection. Legislators are investigating why the state’s junk science law has not been applied in Roberson’s case and others on death row.
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This week on Texas Matters: Early voting kicks off on Monday across the state. What to look out for and whom to call if your voting rights are violated.And since the fall of Roe, how has Texas restricted access to birth control?
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An unusual legal move has bought more time for a Texas man who was set to be executed Thursday evening.
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There are questions about the future of in vitro fertilization (IVF) if Donald Trump is elected back to the White House. Trump has called himself "the father of IVF" and says he's in favor of the procedure, but his vice-presidential running mate, Sen. JD Vance, wrote the foreword of an anti-IVF report. Dr. Francisco (Paco) Arredondo, who is a pioneer in IVF, says there needs to be an IVF Bill of Rights.
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Republican campaigns are focusing their advertisements on the transgender community and consistently implying that the Democratic party takes transgender rights to extremes.