Texas Republicans are planning to escalate their efforts to end a weeklong holdout by Democrats if they don’t return to the ...

Greg Abbott is trying to remove and replace the absent Democrats from the Capitol, as well as exploring charging them with ...

It turns out a precedent for today’s Texas Republicans was, well, Texas Republicans, who rigged maps in their favor in 2003 to win more U.S. House seats the next year. But it is still alarming that ...

Texas State Rep. Gene Wu, who fled the state with other Democrats to stop a GOP redistricting plan, is being targeted for ...

Texas Democrats are gearing up for another day of defiance against Gov. Greg Abbott and the state GOP as they try to move ...

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has said the chamber will reconvene at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT) to move ahead with legislative business, including redistricting.

More than 50 Democratic legislators left Texas to block a GOP effort to redraw congressional lines. Abbott said he'll find ...

U.S. Senator John Cornyn has announced that the FBI have agreed to assist in locating and investigating the Texas House ...

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said he would draw a congressional map that is even more favorable to Republicans if Texas Democrats don't return soon.

The effort is also the latest test of Trump's ability to persuade state and federal lawmakers to enact his agenda even at their own expense.

AG Ken Paxton is already going after donors funding the lawmakers’ stays out of state, and Democrats face a $500 per day fine ...