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Second Reading Podcast: Increased Partisan Intensity, a Tight Texas U.S Senate Race, and Bad Tech Vibes in the New Texas Politics Project Poll

| By: Texas Politics Project

James Henson and Joshua Blank look at 2026 Texas trial ballots and the strikingly negative views of data centers and AI in the June Texas Politics Project Poll.

This episode was engineered and mixed by Uriel Murillo in the LAITS Audio Studio at the University of Texas at Austin, Recorded June 23, 2026

References in the Pod

Graphics for most of the data referenced in the podcast can be found in the report on the June poll posted in the blog section.  Below are a few highlights, including some graphics not included in that post.