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From Donald Trump’s three wins of Texas’ electoral votes to his extended riffing on the virtues of Gov. Greg Abbott’s like-minded border policy at one of the Inauguration after-parties, Texas looms ...

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 ...

John Bowden Connally, Jr. (1917-1993), thirty-eighth governor of the state of Texas, was born on a farm near Floresville, Texas, on February 27, 1917, one of eight children of John Bowden and Lela ...

More Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Joe Biden is doing as president? Would you say that you..." More Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Joe Biden is doing as ...

More Respondents were asked, "And which of the following should be the top priority of the Trump administration?" Measurement of Party ID for this figure is based on two questions. First, respondents ...

Mark Wells White, Jr. was born in Henderson, Texas on March 17, 1940. He attended Houston public schools and Baylor University, earning a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1962 and a law ...

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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 ...

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Iron Triangles, also called subgovernments, are informal subunits of government built on mutually reinforcing exchange relationships among each triangle's participants. Such mutual back-scratching may ...