Every state except Delaware requires voter approval of constitutional amendments. Aside from this limited form of referendum, Texas is one of eighteen states which do not permit any other form of ...

The latest University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll finds large majorities of Texans saying that it’s important for the legislature to improve the reliability of the state’s energy grid and ...

In 1872, before the end of Reconstruction, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won a popular majority in the South, though not in Texas. Until 1952, almost without exception, the "solid South" gave clear ...

More Respondents were asked, "Do you think that the sex listed on a person’s original birth certificate should be the only way to define a person’s gender?" More Respondents were asked, "Do you think ...

Since the political rise of the pro-life movement in the 1990s, it’s often been suggested that elected Republicans were less seriously committed to banning abortion than their public pronouncements ...

The latest University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll, conducted immediately after a New York jury convicted former President Donald Trump on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records, ...

The House’s passage of the de facto ban on THC derivative products in Senate Bill 3, which abandons the House’s more mild regulatory approach and supports the prohibitionist approach championed loudly ...

One of the biggest stories of the 2024 election cycle was Donald Trump’s success in increasing his support among Latino voters. The exit polls in Texas suggest that Trump won 55% of the Latino vote in ...

For several decades, the association of the Republican Party with the Civil War and Reconstruction in the South relegated meaningful political participation and competition to the Democratic Party.

Cumulative voting represents an alternative to the single-member district form of representation that characterizes government on all levels in Texas and the United States. Cumulative voting systems ...

While stifling the autonomy of state governments has been an ongoing project of the state’s Republican elected officials for several years, the latest University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll ...