House Speaker Dustin Burrows said Monday that Democrats who previously left the state could not leave the chamber unless they agreed to having a DPS escort. Collier refused one and must remain in the ...

Texas Democrats have ended a two-week walkout that stalled efforts to redraw congressional districts as part of a national partisan brawl over President Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps to ...

Princeton University professor of history and public policy Julian Zelizer tells the story of what happened in 2003.

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett blasted Texas Republicans’ newly redrawn district map as “racist” Monday night on Instagram — while in the same video she praised California Democrats’ ...

If Trump is taking tactical advice from Putin about how to hold an election, that doesn’t bode well for the future of American democracy.

The Fort Worth Democrat refused to sign a permission slip that allowed quorum-breaking lawmakers to leave the Capitol while ...

Dozens of Democrats left the state earlier this month to block a redistricting plan that would add up to five GOP-held ...

The detainment of State Rep. Nicole Collier has drawn outrage and imagery of Black women's suffrage in America.

Texas Representative Nicole Collier staged an overnight protest on the House floor, defying Republican demands for police ...

A person holds a sign, as protesters begin lining the area near the House chamber before a session as Democratic lawmakers, ...

Republicans are kicking off a gerrymandering arms race that Democrats can’t win, according to the analysis of most election watchers. The question now is whether Democrats can generate enough seats to ...