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2026 ballot surveys

Thirteen Democrat Proposition Surveys

* These are not legal propositions but surveys to get an understanding of where voters stand.

Proposition #1 - Texas should expand Medicaid and ensure access to affordable healthcare for all.

Proposition #2 - Texans should support humane and dignified immigration policies and pathways to citizenship.

Proposition #3 - Texans should have the right to make their own healthcare decisions, including reproductive rights.

Proposition #4 - Texas should address the state's housing crisis in affordability and access in both urban and rural communities.

Proposition #5 - Texas should fund all public schools at the same per-pupil rate as the national average.

Proposition #6 - Secure online voter registration should be accessible to all eligible Texas residents.

Proposition #7 - Texas should have a clean and healthy environment that includes water, air, and biodiversity. Texas must preserve the state's natural, cultural, scenic, and recreational resources.

Proposition #8 - Texas should legalize cannabis for adults and automatically expunge criminal records for past low-level cannabis offenses.

Proposition #9 - Texas should raise salaries to at least the national average and should provide a cost-of-living increase based on the national Consumer Price Index every two years to current/retired school and state employees.

Proposition #10 - Texas should ban racially motivated redistricting, ban mid-decade redistricting, and create a non-partisan redistricting board to redraw lines every 10 years. (Proposición #10)

Proposition #11 - The Working Class should be eligi ble for greater federal income tax relief and have their tax burden fairly shifted onto the wealthiest.

Proposition #12 - Texas should expand accessible public transportation opportunities in rural and urban communities so residents can get to their workplaces, schools, and healthcare.

Proposition #13 - Texas should prevent individuals with a history of domestic abuse from purchasing fire arms by implementing 'red flag' laws.

Ten Republican Proposition Surveys

* These are not legal propositions but surveys to get an understanding on where voters stand.

Proposition #1 -Texas property taxes should be assessed at the purchase price and phased out entirely over the next six years through spending reductions.

Proposition #2 - Texas should require any local government budget that raises property taxes to be approved by voters at a November general election.

Proposition #3 - Texas should prohibit denial of healthcare or any medical service based solely on the patient's vaccination status.

Proposition #4 - Texas should require its public schools to teach that life begins at fertilization.

Proposition #5 - Texas should ban gender, sexuality, and reproductive clinics and services in K-12 schools.

Proposition #6 - Texas should enact term limits on all elected officials.

Proposition #7 - Texas should ban the large-scale export or sale of our groundwater and surface water to any single private or public entity.

Proposition #8 - The Texas Legislature should reduce the burden of illegal immigration on taxpayers by ending public services for illegal aliens.

Proposition #9 - The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature should stop awarding leadership positions, including committee and subcommittee chairmanships and vice chairmanships, to Democrats.

Proposition #10 - Texas should prohibit Sharia Law.


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