"You really are inspiring so many people," the former vice president told Collier, who slept inside the Capitol in protest of ...

A Texas House member from Fort Worth prepares to spend another night inside the Capitol in a political showdown over the ...

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

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

The Texas House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on a Republican-proposed redistricting map after Democratic ...

"The government is without any legal authority to detain members when a quorum is not needed to conduct business," reads the ...

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

A Fort Worth lawmaker’s sit-in on the Texas House floor picked up steam late Tuesday as fellow Democrats flocked to her side ...

Nicole Collier, a state representative, slept in the Capitol rather than agree to police surveillance imposed by Republicans after a Democratic walkout. “I am resisting,” she said.

A Democratic state lawmaker who fled Texas in protest of a GOP redistricting effort is asking a court to let her exit the Capitol, after she was told she needs a police escort to leave the building.

“Way to go Rep Collier!” Rep. Marc Veasey, a Fort Worth Democrat, said in a post on X. “Don’t sign the slip! This is why we ...

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