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 ...

James Henson and Joshua Blank talk about how the Trump admininistration's push for mid-decade redistricting in Texas, protests against immigration policy, Gov. Abbott's preemptive National Guard ...

Poll Summary (pdf) Crosstabs (pdf) Graphics 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 ...

While the difference wasn’t large, there are some interesting differences hiding in this 7-point gap in support. For example, 29% of voters strongly support “establishing a program,” compared to 21% ...

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 ...

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 2024 primary elections in Texas are among the most contested and the most heated of any legislative primaries since the establishment of the near-monopoly of state government after the Republican ...

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 ...

Among likely voters, Independents as a group are more favorably disposed toward Abbott than O’Rourke, though both are in net-negative territory, with intensity, such as it exists, expressed on the ...

After the Civil War two amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution that explicitly guaranteed the rights of African Americans as citizens. The 14th Amendment (ratified in 1868) prohibited states ...

More Respondents were asked, "What is your opinion on the availability of abortion?" Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents were asked whether they ...

Second Reading Podcast: Interpreting Trump's Standing in Texas in the New UT/Texas Politics Project Poll The Texas Politics Project produces courses for students enrolled at UT Austin and for the ...