Inside Texas Politics 3e Student Resources

This video outlines individualistic versus collective, but it most closely identifies with the key Texan values of an individualistic culture and the concurrent challenges.

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Video Quiz: Texas Governor Says The State Will Not Take In New Refugees

Governor Greg Abbott affirms that Texas will not accept new refugees to be resettled, under discretion allowed by executive order from President Trump.

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Video Quiz: The Tea Party Emerges from Texas' Primary Runoffs Mightier Than Ever

After winning the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 2014, Dan Patrick gives an off-the-cuff speech that illustrates the values and principles embedded in the Texas Constitution.

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Video Quiz: The Idea of Federal Supremacy

The U.S. Constitution is crucial to structuring the relationship between states as well as between states and the federal government, specifically the Supremacy Clause, the Full Faith and Credit Clause, and the Commerce Clause.

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Video Quiz: TED-Ed: Does your vote count? The Electoral College explained - Christina Greer

The Electoral College is explained, focusing on understanding the importance of Texas in the Electoral College as both a large state and one of the safest states for the two major parties.

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Video Quiz: U.S. Supreme Court Denies Request To Allow All Texans To Vote By Mail

The Supreme Court denied a petition to expand the ability to vote by mail in the state of Texas during the 2020 presidential election, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Video Quiz: Texas in play in final days of U.S. election

Shifting electoral trends led the pre-election margin between Biden and Trump to be closer than almost anyone expected.

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Video Quiz: Texas Oil Regulator Defends Flaring Exceptions Amid Williams' Lawsuit

One of the most important regulators of the Texas energy industry, a commissioner from the Texas Railroad Commission, talks about regulating the energy industry through flaring permits.

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Video Quiz: Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Limits

A recent law from the Texas legislature is reviewed and struck down by the Supreme Court, illustrating the legislative process in Texas.

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Video Quiz: Texas Mandates Masks In Public For Most Counties With COVID-19 Cases

The Governor of Texas Greg Abbott issued a state-wide mask order for any counties with 20 or more COVID-19 cases, illustrating the power of the office.

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Video Quiz: A small Texas town, a cancer-causing pollutant, and state regulators

The pollutant of benzene from a pipeline in Dish, Texas, generates questions about the responsibility of the bureaucracy in regulating a powerful economic industry while also protecting its citizens.

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Video Quiz: Texas Regulators Consider Limiting Oil Production Amid Pandemic

The Texas Railroad Commission, a bureaucratic agency, considers forcing production limits on the oil and gas industry in respond to cratering demand as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Video Quiz: State Court Systems

The broader role of state courts is contextualized, situating state courts as operating beneath the ultimate Supreme Court of the United States.

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Video Quiz: Texas Appeals Court Issues Stay Of Execution For Rodney Reed

Texas Courts issue a stay of execution for Rodney Reed in light of new evidence.

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Video Quiz: TED-ED: What happened to trial by jury? - Suja A. Thomas

The history of trial by jury, including its unique role in American politics, is contextualized by its declining use in the judicial system in modern politics.

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Video Quiz: Texas Prisons Have More COVID-19 Cases And Deaths Than Any Other State

COVID-19 affects Texas prisons disproportionately, more than any other prison system in the country, leading to questions about Texas prisons.

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Video Quiz: A small town hopes a strange animal can save its school district

Financial pressures on the Hutto, Texas school district illustrate the challenges local governments in Texas face in providing service while managing debt.

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Video Quiz: Austin Is Cutting $150M from Its Police Budget To "Reimagine" Policing

One local government in Texas—the city of Austin—makes radical changes to its local policing strategy, flying in the face of politics and preferences at the state level.

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Video Quiz: Comptroller Hegar: Texas Poised for Modest Growth

From 2016, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar forecasts the economic growth of Texas (given new oil and gas revenue decisions), allowing us to compare what has happened in the last five years compared to what was forecast.

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Video Quiz: Trump, Congress, and the Plan for Block Grants and Medicaid

This video describes potential reforms to Medicaid funding, especially focusing on block grants and the difficulty in (cutting) funding to a program that helps fund medical care.

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Video Quiz: Rep. McCaul on Funding, Building Mexico Border Wall

This video features an extended interview with House Representative Michael McCaul of Texas on Bloomberg in 2017 clarifying his expectations of border security after the 2016 presidential election.

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Video Quiz: Texas Governor Issues 8 Executive Orders In Response To Mass Shootings

Governor Abbott signed executive orders to provide instructions on how to report suspicious activity with regards to firearms, in response to mass shootings in Texas in 2019.

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