TOPLINES CROSSTABS As the Texas Legislature convenes for its 89th session, a University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll reveals that the concerns that prevailed during the 2024 election continue ...

Dorothy Ann Willis (1933-2006) was born September 1, 1933, in Lakeview, Texas. Richards received a bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a teaching certificate from the University of Texas. She ...

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 ...

Public opinion polling and analysis from the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.

Poll Summary (pdf) Crosstabs (pdf) The Texas Politics Project has released the results of the first University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll conducted in the interim between the general ...

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 ...

The latest University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll finds Texans in a dour mood colored by a resurgent COVID-19 virus, an economy recovering yet roiled by its impact, and state politics driven ...

When asked to assess the traits of both presidential candidates, 36% judged Trump to be honest and trustworthy, while 55% said he was not, identical to responses collected in October 2023. Biden is ...

When inmate David Ruiz sued the director of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC), William J. Estelle, in 1972 over dangerous and degrading living and working conditions, he set in motion a ...

Rep. Rob Junell's draft constitution, HJR 1 (1999) Click image for full-text PDF of draft constitution.

Talk to any old hand about Texas political history, and reference to the days when "yellow dog Democrats" ran the state is bound to come up. Even now, when such animals are an endangered species in ...

Graphics How the U.S. Constitution distributes power Texas Constitutions with links to originals Images of the flags flown over Texas Capitol has changed with the constitution U.S. Constitution Civil ...