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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

A Texas state Democrat slept on the statehouse floor, playing victim in an attention-seeking stunt that will make her a social media star.

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

The Fort Worth Democrat refused to sign a permission slip that allowed quorum-breaking lawmakers to leave the Capitol while being shadowed by a state trooper.

The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature is poised to vote soon on a redistricting plan that resulted from prodding by ...

Texas Republicans are moving closer to approving new congressional maps amid a Democratic show of protest over the GOP House speaker’s order that members who fled the state weeks earlier be placed ...