State Representative Trey Martinez Fischer talks with Texas Politics Director James Henson about the impact of demographic change in Texas on the prospects of the Texas Democratic Party.
Recorded March 6, 2012, at the University of Texas at Austin at an event produced by The Texas Politics Project.
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