State Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, announced she plans to resign from her elected position in September after winning her November election in a landslide.
Dukes has cited lingering health concerns...
After a historic Election Day that resulted in a Donald Trump presidential victory, The Daily Texan followed up with the 12 students profiled for a voter series that ran between Oct. 24 and Nov. 8.
While...
Incumbents Celia Israel (D-Austin), Jason Isaac (R-Dripping Springs) and Donna Howard (D-Austin) won last night, carrying all three representatives to another term for the 85th Texas Legislature.
Celia...
With 70.31 percent of the early vote, Democrat Rep. Dawnna Dukes secured her 12th term to serve House District 46 Tuesday night, despite the representative’s intent to resign before the state’s...
Today is Election Day, marking the end of a frenzied political battle between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and Americans who didn’t...
Sheryl Cole, the first African-American woman elected to the Austin City Council in 2006, plans to run for the House District 46 seat should the position become vacant in 2017.
Rep. Dawnna Dukes,...
Just two months after becoming an official U.S. citizen, Mathew Piotrowicz exercised his newly attained right to vote by casting an early ballot for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
Piotrowicz,...
Shannon Doyle isn’t eligible to cast her ballot this election cycle by nature of not being an American citizen, but encourages others with the right to do so.
Originally from London, Doyle...
Editor’s note: This is the seventh profile in a series The Daily Texan is publishing during the 2016 election season, featuring a wide variety of student political perspectives. Beginning with the...
Editor’s note: This is the fifth profile of a series The Daily Texan is publishing during the 2016 election season, featuring a wide variety of student political perspectives. Beginning with the...
“I had to figure out how to not make ‘lesbian’ my last name,” said Annise Parker, the former mayor of Houston, in a speech to UT students Thursday night at the SAC Auditorium.
Parker,...
Editor’s note: This is the third profile of a series The Daily Texan is publishing during the 2016 election season, featuring a wide variety of student political perspectives. Beginning with the...
Editor’s note: This is the second profile of a series The Daily Texan is publishing during the 2016 election season, featuring a wide variety of student political perspectives. Beginning with the...
Editor’s note: This is the first profile of a series The Daily Texan is publishing during the 2016 election season. Beginning with the first day of early voting, Oct. 24, the series will run up until...
None of the nine UT System Regents have donated to current GOP nominee Donald Trump so far, despite their longtime associations with high-dollar donations to Republican candidates, adding to the unconventionality...
As the nation inches toward the finish line in the 2016 race for president, undergraduate students at UT-Austin overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, for president.
Around...
Three civic engagement organizations registered more than 1,200 students to vote on Sept. 27, National Voter Registration Day.
Since the start of the fall semester, UT Votes, Texas Rising and Hook...
The battle over gender-neutral restrooms has been highly contested on both sides of the political aisle in recent months, and over the weekend, top Texas and local lawmakers weighed in on the issue and...
Panelists at the Texas Tribune Festival met over the weekend to discuss issues in higher education affecting students across Texas.
The slow growth of racial diversity and high tuition costs at Texas...
With Election Day just 46 days away, tension between the two main-party candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, has left the University’s politically active organizations questioning: Is it...
Amid a controversial state voter identification law and an upcoming presidential election, Texas was dubbed the “epicenter of voting rights battles” during a panel Sunday at the Lyndon B. Johnson...
A weekend-long celebration kicked off Friday afternoon with a salute to the 1956 black undergraduate class, the first year the University allowed black students to enroll and attend UT.
The tribute,...
