The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new ...

A Texas Democratic state lawmaker abruptly left a call with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin and other ...

Texas Republicans insisted that Democrats have around-the-clock police escorts to ensure they wouldn’t leave again.

Republicans teed off debate in the state House of Representatives by making no bones that their goal is to help Trump hold onto Congress in what is shaping up as a difficult political environment.

Democratic Representative Nicole Collier spent the night at the Texas House of Representatives in Austin in protest. After ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday kicked off a heated debate over a ...

You really are inspiring so many people,” the former vice president told Texas lawmaker Collier, who slept inside the state ...

Rep. Suleman Lalani, among the Democrats who fled the state to delay GOP redistricting efforts, had a constant law enforcement shadow to ensure his whereabouts.

In sports, the winning team doesn’t get to rewrite the rules to guarantee it’ll never lose again. In a democracy, the same ...

The so-called “permission slips” were issued to Democrats who broke quorum and fled the state in a 15-day fight over GOP gerrymandering. The slips, which they were forced to sign in order to leave the ...

On Monday, Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public ...

State Rep. Nicole Collier filed a lawsuit to challenge the Texas House's authority to enforce police escorts for lawmakers ...