The Texas State Capitol was cleared of visitors Tuesday evening and closed to the public after a social media threat, the ...

A group of Texas Democrats are returning to the state House in Austin where they will spend the night — the latest step in a ...

Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public ...

Sam Parker wears an outfit from "The Handmaid's Tale" as she protests the confinement of Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, ...

GOP leadership required Democrats to consent to a police escort in order to leave the building. Collier chose to stay instead ...

Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a ...

Upon returning after a 15-day walkout, Texas House Democrats were asked for consent to be escorted off the floor by DPS ...

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

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

The Fort Worth Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after refusing to be shadowed by state police, a requirement ...

After Democrats returned to the Texas statehouse, Republican leadership assigned law enforcement officers to monitor them to ...

A Democratic Texas state lawmaker who spent the night on the Texas House floor rather than accept a police escort slammed the ...