Pollster

Texas Public Opinion Research

Research draft
Polls since 2024
2
Latest poll ended
April 20, 2026

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Texas Public Opinion Research describes itself on its website as a nonpartisan initiative that studies Texans' beliefs, values and policy preferences through quarterly public opinion research, without allegiance to any political position or special interest.1 Its launch post, published on its Substack on September 13, 2024 with Luke Warford's name in the footer, says it was launched in partnership with Lake Research Partners and that its first poll, conducted by Lake Research Partners, surveyed 800 registered Texas voters by phone and online in English and Spanish in August 2024.2 According to The Texas Tribune in July 2026, it is directed by Luke Warford, whom the paper calls a Democratic strategist and a founding partner of the Agave Democratic Infrastructure Fund.3 Its April 2026 release reports a survey of 1,018 likely Texas general election voters fielded April 17 to 20, 2026, and lists a press contact with a slingshotstrat.com email address.4

Founded
20242

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Polls jointly with

  • Lake Research Partners (2024–now). The launch post says TPOR was launched in partnership with Lake Research Partners and that Lake Research Partners conducted its first poll in August 2024.2

Led by

  • Luke Warford. According to The Texas Tribune, Luke Warford directs TPOR, and the TPOR Substack credits him in its footer.2,3

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Says it does no work for parties or candidates. Its website calls it a nonpartisan initiative without allegiance to any political position or special interest, and it names no campaign or party clients. This rests on the firm's own description; The Texas Tribune reported in July 2026 that its director is a Democratic strategist.1,3

Of its 2 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor5.

§4Its polls

The 2 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
April 17–April 20, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 TexasJames Talarico 46 · Ken Paxton 411,018 LV
April 17–April 20, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 TexasJames Talarico 44 · John Cornyn 411,018 LV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

  • Its website does not say whether it is a company or a nonprofit, who funds it or where it is based, so kind is left empty.
  • The 2026 releases read do not name the firm that did the fieldwork, so Lake Research Partners is documented only for the launch and the first poll in 2024.
  • The April 2026 press contact uses slingshotstrat.com, the web domain of Slingshot Strategies (pollster:slingshot-strategies); no page read describes a relationship between the two, so none is recorded.
  • No standing news partners were found; The Texas Tribune hosts one of its releases and reports on its polls, but no partnership was described.
  • Searches and AAPOR's statements page found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm.