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JefRouner

Writer — News / Opinion

Free Press Houston
2014—2018

Reported and wrote opinion for Free Press Houston in its final years, 63 recovered pieces on Houston politics, discrimination and culture — including the hate-crime feature whose 2018 production files this archive holds. He continues to write as a Houston journalist, with a long-running contributor archive at the Houston Press.

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His own profile lists the Houston Press and the Free Press Houston author archive for jef-rouner as his websites, tying the living profile directly to the byline held here. Checked 2026-09-04.

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Retrospective analysis

Essays that read the held record of this contributor's work, with method stated.

4
Years represented
63
Recovered articles
184
Subjects

Recovered work

So You Want to Be In Charge: Laura Moser (D) for Texas District 7
2018-01-11

So You Want to Be In Charge: Laura Moser (D) for Texas District 7

So You Want to Be In Charge: Silky Malik (D) for Texas District 2
2017-12-06

So You Want to Be In Charge: Silky Malik (D) for Texas District 2

Top 5 Music Videos of the Week: Marshmello, Univz + more
2017-01-11

Top 5 Music Videos of the Week: Marshmello, Univz + more

Dear Fellow White People: Shut Up Right Now
2016-07-08

Dear Fellow White People: Shut Up Right Now

Gay Man Beaten With Belt Buckles, Rocks in Possible Montrose Hate CrimeAccused White Oak Music Hall White Supremacists RespondWhite Supremacists Need to Stay the Hell Out of the Houston Music SceneSo You Want to Be In Charge: Laura Moser (D) for Texas District 7So You Want to Be In Charge: Silky Malik (D) for Texas District 2Could Texas District 2 Flip Blue? Signs Point to YesDoes Charlie Hebdo Think All Texans Are Nazis?Joel Osteen Fails at Christianity, Keeps Lakewood ClosedWhat Is It With The Alt-Right and Male Virility?America Does Actually Have a Single-Payer Health SystemIt’s Okay to Hate GunsWhite Women are the New White MenTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Goldie, WatchtheDuck + moreWhy Do Conservatives Think Words Are Magic?Top 5 Music Videos of the Week: Boy Epic, Lea Porcelain + moreWhy I Don’t Call Myself an AllySo, What Confederate Nonsense Should Houston Tear Down?Top 5 Music Videos of the Week: Muse, Drop the Gun + moreDealing With Social Media Bots in Future Elections: A GuideDecent Don is the Donald Trump Web Comic You Didn’t Know You NeededTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Emmit Finn, Lea Porcelain + moreBeing Mean to Chelsea Clinton is StupidTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Airlands, Palehound + MoreTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Danny Brown, Lexie Roth + moreYes, Poor People Need Smart Phones (AND Health Insurance)I Really Don’t Care If the White Race Goes ExtinctWhen Free Speech Becomes Its Own Form of CensorshipTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Run the Jewels, LPX + moreSJWs Get Shit DoneTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Steve Aoki, Light Years + moreThe Right Doesn’t Want Empathy. They Want Forgiveness, and They Can’t Have ItTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: OBB, Jay Pray + moreHow You Can Save the News in Trump’s AmericaTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Stolar, Nadia Reid + moreHouston Music Scene Once Again in A Bigotry CrisisTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Depeche Mode, Bright Light Social Hour + MoreMeet the Trans Woman Running for Pete Sessions’ Seat in CongressTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Bastille, Opeth + moreTrump and the New Confederacy of DuncesTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Boy Epic, LP + MoreTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Milck, Troye Sivan + moreTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: The Weeknd, Jonathan Roy + moreTop 5 Music Videos of the Week: Marshmello, Univz + moreWhat Embarrassing Things Have Our Texas Representatives Done Lately?We Should Give Donald Trump the AstrodomeDear Santa: A Political Christmas ListWhere’s Mayor Turner’s Declaration of Houston as a Sanctuary City?Fucking White People…I Sit and Wait for My Trans Friends to Die in Trump’s AmericaAmerica Has Spoken: Lie to MeYour Harris County U.S. Representatives Election RundownWays to Actually be Pro-Life Without That 40 Days for Life CrapSo You Want to Live in an All-White Utopia?Voting Democrat in Texas Isn’t a WasteWhy Won’t the Alt-Right Call Out Their Terrorists?Obsessing Over Candidates’ Health is Kind of CreepyI Want to Live in a Republican DystopiaI Don’t Care If Melania Trump Was a Sex Worker and Neither Should YouWhy Aren’t American Right-Wingers and Islamic Hardliners BFFs?Voting Third Party is the Electoral Equivalent of Sending Thoughts and PrayersDear Fellow White People: Shut Up Right NowLt. Gov. Dan Patrick Embarrasses Texans Yet Again10.7.14: The Last VJ’s Top 5 Music Videos of the Week

Archival authority record

Reference record derived from the material this archive holds. Counts are computed from held and recovered objects; categories the archive holds nothing for are omitted.

Canonical name
Jef Rouner
Archival roles
Writer — News / Opinion
Held work spans
2014—2018
Recorded span
2014—2018
Recovered editorial works
63
Collection relationships
First-party sources
  • LinkedInJef Rouner — profile

    His own profile lists the Houston Press and his author archive on the paper's former domain as his websites, tying the profile to the byline held here.

Canonical record
https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/contributors/jef-rouner

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Free Press Houston Archive. “Jef Rouner.” Archival authority record, Free Press Houston Archive, https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/contributors/jef-rouner

Cite this record

Free Press Houston Archive “Jef Rouner — contributor record.” n.d.. Contributor record, Free Press Houston 2014—2018. Free Press Houston Archive. https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/contributors/jef-rouner. Accessed [date].

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Archive finding aids

Bibliography of recovered writingPolitics, music and opinion pieces by year, with reconciled dates and the canonical record for each.

External references

LinkedIn — Jef Rouner — profile

His own profile lists the Houston Press and his author archive on the paper's former domain as his websites, tying the profile to the byline held here.