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 ...

A Houston attorney has filed an ethics complaint against House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu, D-Houston, after the caucus ...

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 ...

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 ...

House Bill 4, the redistricting legislation, is the only item on the lawmakers' agenda when they reconvene on Wednesday.

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 ...

Democrats said Republicans in the Texas House crossed a line by detaining them en masse and then assigning state troopers to trail them everywhere they go.