In 1979, Texas Democratic State Senators fled the Capitol to break a quorum to block an election bill from getting voted on.

The maps achieve a five-seat swing largely by shaving slivers of Republican strongholds from ruby red districts and placing ...

Texas Republicans are scheduled to reconvene Tuesday after they voted to issue civil arrest warrants for Democrats who fled ...

Members of the Texas Department of Public Safety inside the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, US, on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who ...

A spat over congressional redistricting in Texas marks the latest episode in a long national history of gerrymandering.

Texas Democrats have fled the state to block a vote on a new redistricting map. Gov. Abbott has ordered their arrest, ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says her state may try to add Democratic U.S. House seats as Texas House Democrats face threats ...

Dozens of Democratic state lawmakers in Texas have scattered to points across the country in a last-ditch effort to prevent ...

"To those who are absent, return now," House Speaker Dustin Burrows, a Lubbock Republican, said from the House floor. "Show ...

Crockett said she was asked to verify her address before Republicans unveiled the congressional redistricting proposal.

The call to action follows the currently stymied effort by the Texas GOP to redraw the state’s congressional map to try to ...