Nicole Collier, who represents a minority-majority district in Fort Worth. Her staff removed a pillow, blanket and bag of ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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 ...