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 ...

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.

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

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

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

By Eric Bradner, Arlette Saenz, Arit John, Steve Contorno, Andi Babineau, CNN (CNN) — The Texas House of Representatives has ...

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

Multiple Texas House Democrats will spend the night inside the Texas House chamber to protest law enforcement escorts that ...

The Republican-controlled Texas House on Wednesday kicked off a heated debate over a new congressional map creating five new potential GOP seats.

President Donald Trump pushed for the map revision to give his party a better chance at holding on to the U.S. House in the ...