You really are inspiring so many people,” the former vice president told Texas lawmaker Collier, who slept inside the state ...

The Texas House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on a Republican-proposed redistricting map after Democratic ...

Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a ...

A Texas House member from Fort Worth prepares to spend another night inside the Capitol in a political showdown over the ...

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier was told she was not free to leave the building after refusing to sign a permission slip ...

The standoff began on Monday, when Democratic members returned to the Capitol after being out of the state for more than two ...

After Democrats returned to the Texas statehouse, Republican leadership assigned law enforcement officers to monitor them to ...

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

Parts of the Texas Capitol grounds were evacuated and closed to visitors on Tuesday evening after reports of an active shooter threat.The building itself was s ...

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

Democratic state Representative Nicole Collier is poised to spend her second night in the Texas Capitol building rather than ...

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