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Youth Voting Rights Advocates Praise Reintroduction Of Youth Voting Rights Act

Lynn Schmidt: College students' rights have eroded. They need, more than ever, to cast votes.

Republicans Are Targeting the Youth Vote in 2024, But Students Are Fighting Back

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Sep 20, 2022

Commissioners discuss workshop on MSC early voting site after continued support for it

Texas A&M students and community members fill the Brazos County Commissioners Court on Tuesday morning as the five-member group discusses...

Sep 19, 2022

Hispanic Heritage Month activities continue at TAMIU

Karol Garcia, Laredo Morning Times Sep. 19, 2022 After the Hispanic Heritage Month kick off with an El Grito event at TAMIU’s campus,...

Aug 8, 2022

Texas targets trans voters with restrictions

Voting restrictions push trans people to the outskirts By ANDY HACKETT As a transgender man living in Texas, the rapid rollback of...

Jan 18, 2022

UHCL a nationally-recognized campus voter engagement leader

Jan 17, 2022 By: Aswad Walker At a time when both GOP voter suppression tactics and Generation Z voter apathy threaten to plunge the...

Jan 8, 2022

UHCL: UHCL Wins Two National Awards For Campus Voter Engagement

Jan 7, 2022 College students have been a key demographic component in the last three elections, becoming more actively involved with...

Dec 14, 2021

OP-ED: TEXAS REDISTRICTING NEEDS TO PROTECT CAMPUS COMMUNITIES

Dec 13, 2021 By: Jocelyn Carrera and CJ Cetina Following the 2020 U.S. Census, the state of Texas reapportioned its districts based on...

Sep 15, 2021

Texas Law Poses Threat to Student Voting

College students in Texas will face stricter registration and voting rules when casting ballots on campus. By Maria Carrasco // September...

Mar 25, 2021

Tarleton earns voter friendly campus designation

Empire-Tribune, Staff report: "STEPHENVILLE — Tarleton State University has been named a 2021-22 Voter Friendly Campus by the Campus...

Mar 17, 2021

Southwestern Undergraduate Recognized as 2021–2022 Newman Civic Fellow

Southwestern Newsroom, Meilee Bridges: Esparza is double majoring in political science and environmental studies. “Since arriving at...

Mar 9, 2021

Southwestern University Again Earns Voter-Friendly Campus Designation

Southwestern Newsroom, Brooke Shattuck: "Today, Southwestern University is one of 231 campuses in 37 states and the District of Columbia...

Nov 23, 2020

Students, booming suburbs swung Hays vote to Democrats

Nov. 23, 2020 By: Philip Jankowski Catherine Wicker had to go about registering Texas State University voters much differently this year....

Nov 23, 2020

Students, booming suburbs swung Hays vote to Democrats

Austin-American Statesmen, Phillip Jankowski: Catherine Wicker had to go about registering Texas State University voters much differently...

Nov 4, 2020

Ballots cast in Travis County jumps by 125,000 in 2020 election compared to 2016

The Daily Texan, Skye Seipp and Meha Madhira: In 2016, 477,588 ballots were cast, while 602,398 were cast this year. Among UT’s polling...

Oct 1, 2020

Local organizer reacts to Abbott's mail-in ballot proclamation

KXXV ABC 25 News, Trenton Hooker: "There's numerous research out there to show that voting by mail is safe and secure and does not...

Oct 1, 2020

Abbott's 'ballot security' proclamation to have little effect on mail-in

KXXV ABC 25 News, Jack Allen: Under Texas law, voters can bring their mail-in ballot into an election office for submission instead of...

Sep 28, 2020

Can Texas Democrats count on the college vote during the pandemic

Austin American-Statesman, Asher Price: “It’s incredibly difficult to register people during pandemic,” said Catherine Wicker, who heads...

Sep 18, 2020

Make Your Vote Count: UT Students Spreading Awareness

Minaret, Lily Shayani: Some may agree that 2020 has been a hectic year. With news circling around topics of COVID-19, the upcoming...

Sep 17, 2020

Of Course Republicans Want to Suppress the Youth Vote

The Nation, Asiah Williams: Maya Patel, state coordinator for the Campus Vote Project, serves to help campuses institutionalize reforms...

Aug 13, 2020

Texas State students asking county commissioners for additional polling

CBS Austin, Christian Flores: Normally, the on-campus polling place is the LBJ Student Center, but the university is putting additional...

Aug 13, 2020

Texas State students asking county commissioners for additional polling place

CBS Austin, Christian Flores: Normally, the on-campus polling place is the LBJ Student Center, but the university is putting additional...

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