In the post-Soviet world, the fundamental issue of peoples and nations has risen again and again. For millions of people, the collapse of the Soviet Union meant freedom from a regime that had killed or oppressed their loved ones. For others, it meant the ability to associate and interact freely with people throughout the globe. For even more, it meant the chance to claim ethnic identities long suppressed by the all encompassing label of state communism. This phenomenon, of peoples flexing their political and cultural voices for the first time, has remained a defining feature of the modern world. For better or worse remains to be seen.

After the jump, questionnaires with all the Texas Candidates who submitted them:

 The questionnaires were authored by Governor Milam Miller, Speaker Joshua Cantor-Stone, and Lieutenant Governor Katherine Kelley