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

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

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 ...

Texas' Republican-led legislature is expected to approve new congressional maps that add five new House seats that the GOP ...

Texas Democratic lawmakers that had fled the state in defiance of Republican-led efforts to redraw the state’s Congressional ...

Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every ...

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

Some parents of Camp Mystic campers who died in catastrophic flooding over the July 4 weekend will testify at the capitol.

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 ...

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 ...

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