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 ...

Several Texas state House Democrats ripped up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier, a Democrat who slept in the Texas House chamber after refusing Republicans' demand that Democrats leave only with police escort.

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

Texas Democrats are joining a colleague who can't leave the state Capitol because she won't agree to having law enforcement ...

A Texas Democratic state lawmaker abruptly left a call with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin and other ...

Texas Republicans are moving closer to approving new congressional maps amid a Democratic show of protest over the GOP House ...

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

The vote overcame weeks of protests from House Democrats who fled the state to stall a vote on the mid-cycle redistricting.

The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives has passed a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five new ...