Texas Primary Election

The Republican Party of Texas ballot will include 10 propositions for voters to consider. These propositions are non-binding and serve as opinion polls to guide the party's legislative agenda for 2027.

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.

The Texas Democratic primary ballot will include 13 propositions for voters to consider. These propositions are non-binding and do not represent a law. Instead, they are opinion polls of Democratic voters and are used to gauge support for various issues.

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.

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.

Proposition 11: The Working Class should be eligible 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 firearms by implementing “red flag” laws.