About

Your Guide to Becoming a More Informed, Confident Citizen

Texapedia is the most reliable, comprehensive civics resource in the Lone Star State. Professionally edited and maintained, it’s a labor of love for the state we call home. Explore hundreds of in-depth articles about Texas law, politics, history, and government.

Written in a straightforward, readable style, Texapedia is intended to serve as a resource for teachers, students, voters, and the general public. It also provides a wealth of documents, data, and background information to guide and inform researchers and policymakers.

What We Do

Texapedia publishes comprehensive information about:

• the structure of Texas government, its branches and layers;
• rules governing the relationships between the different parts of government;
• roles and responsibilities of officials;
• functions and structure of state agencies;
• law and the legislative process;
• government finances and taxation;
• the history of Texas law and government.

Mission

The purpose of Texapedia is to enhance the civic knowledge of students, teachers, and the general public. We envision an informed, active citizenry equipped to reform what is lacking in their government while conserving what is good about it.

For more insight on our vision and philosophy, read this featured essay.

Research and Sourcing

Texapedia articles are grounded in primary sources, including Texas statutes, the state constitution, public records, and official government data. Many entries also include original research based on public records requests and independent analysis by our team.

Where appropriate, articles include formal citations—especially when referencing laws, budgets, and historical sources. Our aim is to strike a balance between rigorous sourcing and readability for a general audience.

Unlike Wikipedia, Texapedia is not publicly editable. All content is researched and written in-house. This allows us to ensure accuracy, preserve editorial integrity, and maintain higher reliability and timeliness than many crowd-sourced platforms.

That said, Texapedia is a living project. Some entries are incomplete, and others may become outdated over time. We update content regularly but do not monitor every article in real time for minor statutory or administrative changes.

If you notice an error or outdated information, we welcome your feedback.

Team and Ownership

Based in Austin, Texas, Texapedia is edited by a team with experience in journalism, government, and law. In the spirit of Texas free enterprise and entrepreneurship, Texapedia is privately owned and independently undertaken. However, we take seriously our public service mission.

For Educators

Whether you work at a high school, community college, four-year college, home school, or a law school, Texapedia is a resource that’s freely available to you and your students. It’s one of the cleanest, clearest, most concisely written educational resources about Texas government that’s available on the internet.

If you have used Texapedia in your classroom, we’d like to hear from you. Please share feedback, assignments, lesson plans, and ideas so that we can improve and make additional resources available to educators at all levels.

Funding

Texapedia is a low-budget operation and we do not receive outside funding from any political interest groups, political parties, industry lobby groups, or other stakeholders in politics or government. We do receive a small amount of revenue through limited advertising.

All advertisements on the site are rendered by Google or Amazon. Sensitive content categories are excluded, in order to ensure that the site is safe for children, youth, and students.

Political Advertising

We allow political advertising on this website because of its potential relevance to our target audience. However, we have no control over these advertisements, which are rendered by Google, and we do not necessarily endorse or support the candidates or causes advertised.

Disclaimer

This site is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing on this site constitutes legal advice. This website is a work in progress and information on this site may be out-of-date. For example, it may not reflect the latest changes in statute, rule changes, or political developments. Although information on this website is believed to be generally accurate at time of publication, we do not make any warranty or guarantee to that effect.

Users assume all risk of reliance on the information included on this site.