A Texas House Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers who participated in a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade ...

The Texas House of Representatives will gavel back into session at 10 a.m. Wednesday with the controversial proposal ...

The Texas House of Representatives gaveled back into session Wednesday morning with the controversial proposal to redraw ...

The standoff began on Monday, when Democratic members returned to the Capitol after being out of the state for more than two weeks due to a controversial redistricting map. Rep. Collier refused to ...

The Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new winnable seats for ...

Republican lawmakers are pursuing the unusual mid-decade redistricting plan amid pressure from President Donald Trump to ...

Follow here for the latest updates as the Texas House debates President Donald Trump's plan to gerrymander five new GOP ...

The effort is intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats in the midterm elections. California will counter on ...

Other Texas Democrats, including from DFW, joined Rep. Nicole Collier after they tore up their “permission slips” to leave ...

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

The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature is poised to vote soon on a redistricting plan that resulted from prodding by ...

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