Initiatives
San Antonio Local Elections – November 2025
The Texas Voter Project (TVP) is launching its next major research and outreach initiative this November in San Antonio, where thousands of voters under 35 remain disengaged—not out of apathy, but due to a lack of accessible, nonpartisan information.
In May, we tested the impact of sending encyclopedic voter guides directly to young voters in San Antonio. What we learned? There’s demand. 92.7% of respondents said a guide like ours would be useful in future elections.
Now, we’re scaling up for November—an election cycle with even lower turnout and even less media coverage. Without party labels on the ballot, voters must do more legwork to make informed choices, and many simply don’t. Our goal is to remove those barriers.
Houston Special Election – Texas's 18th Congressional District
A special election will be held to fill the vacancy in Texas’s 18th Congressional District—a historically significant and majority-minority district covering central Houston. This race is expected to draw a large candidate field, but, like most special elections, very low turnout. That makes it the perfect environment to test what kind of outreach actually works.
Texas Voter Project will send bilingual, nonpartisan voter guides by mail directly to young registered voters (ages 18–35) in TX-18, providing them with essential election details, candidate summaries, and the tools to make informed choices—right at their door.
A randomized group of voters will receive the guide, and we’ll measure turnout among recipients vs. a control group to evaluate its impact. This project builds on our mission to deliver clear, accessible election information to the voters most often left out of the process.
