Republican lawmakers are expected to quickly pass new voting maps, but Democrats still say they were victorious in the standoff.

SMU political science professor Matthew Wilson explains the rarely enforced rules being applied during this second special session of the legislature.

A Texas Democrat has stayed overnight at the state Capitol to protest how the Texas House’s top Republican had dozens of her colleagues shadowed.

Texas Democrats are joining a colleague who can’t leave the state Capitol because she won’t agree to having law enforcement officers shadow her

Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety.

Generations of Texas politicians have sat, voted and debated in the cushioned leather chairs on the floor of the state’s House of Representatives, but few have spent the night in one — let alone with a bonnet and eye mask.

Democratic lawmakers in Texas returned to the state on Monday, ending a two-week walkout that broke quorum and temporarily blocked Republican efforts to redraw congressional maps at the behest of U.S.

Democratic lawmakers who fled their state to stymie Republican plans to redraw political maps at the behest of President Donald Trump announced on Monday they were "returning to Texas on our terms," as the battle lines harden 15 months before the U.