Republicans teed off debate in the state House of Representatives by making no bones that their goal is to help Trump hold onto Congress in what is shaping up as a difficult political environment.

Democratic Representative Nicole Collier spent the night at the Texas House of Representatives in Austin in protest. After ...

You really are inspiring so many people,” the former vice president told Texas lawmaker Collier, who slept inside the state ...

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

In sports, the winning team doesn’t get to rewrite the rules to guarantee it’ll never lose again. In a democracy, the same ...

The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new ...

State Rep. Nicole Collier, joined by her Democratic colleagues, spent the last two nights sleeping in the House chamber at the Capitol in Austin.

The so-called “permission slips” were issued to Democrats who broke quorum and fled the state in a 15-day fight over GOP gerrymandering. The slips, which they were forced to sign in order to leave the ...

On Monday, Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public ...

State Rep. Nicole Collier filed a lawsuit to challenge the Texas House's authority to enforce police escorts for lawmakers ...

DPS said the person had made threats online to go to the Capitol and shoot and kill 'those who will not allow lawmakers to ...

Texas House Democrat Rep. Nicole Collier refuses police escort, stays in Capitol overnight to protest GOP redistricting plan.