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Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez has served four terms as the top law enforcement officer in Val Verde County, Texas, a sprawling rural territory that shares 110 miles of border with Mexico. Martinez says his father, a staunch Democrat, raised him and his nine siblings to serve their community.
Martinez’s run for office provides a glimpse at how new patterns of immigration along the border have coincided with, if not driven, changing attitudes among voters who live there. Some communities once considered Democratic strongholds have begun to turn red, a trend bolstered by Republican efforts to court Latino voters.

Director
Gerardo del Valle

Producers
Gerardo del Valle
Perla Trevizo
Lisa Riordan Seville
Mauricio Rodríguez Pons

Cinematography
Gerardo del Valle
Mauricio Rodríguez Pons
Liz Moughon
Katie Campbell

Editing, color and sound
Gerardo del Valle

Graphics and animation
Mauricio Rodríguez Pons

Senior Producers
Almudena Toral
Lisa Riordan Seville

Executive Producer
Almudena Toral

ProPublica-Texas Tribune Senior Editor
Zahira Torres

Managing Editor
Ginger Thompson

ProPublica-Texas Tribune Data Reporter
Dan Keemahill

ProPublica-Texas Tribune Research Reporter
Lexi Churchill

Research Editor
Lynn Dombek 

Deputy Data Editor 
Hannah Fresques

Graphics Director 
Lena Groeger

Music and Sound effects
Epidemic Sound

Archival Images
Martinez Family
Whitehead Museum
Gracie’s Antiques

Photo Retouching
Katie Campbell 

Archival 
Fox News
KHOU 11
C-SPAN
News Nation
KSAT-TV
KTVT
KENS5
Office of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
Texas Department of Public Safety 
Associated Press
Getty Images
Project Red TX on X 

Legal Review
Sarah Matthews
Jeremy Kutner

Copy Editing
Emily Goldstein
Colleen Barry

Audience
Kassie Navarro 
Samantha Cooney

Communications
Alissandra Calderon
Reese Castro

Senior Editor for Visual Storytelling
Boyzell Hosey

Editor-in-Chief
Stephen Engelberg

Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief
Matthew Watkins

Texas Tribune Data Visuals Editor 
Chris Essig

Spanish Translation
Perla Trevizo
Wendy Selene Pérez
Luis Carrasco

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