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More Texas Democrats Spent The Night At The State Capitol In Protest

More Texas House Democrats spent the night at the state Capitol in Austin in support of Rep. Nicole Collier, who wasn’t ...

How Texas Republicans are punishing statehouse Democrats who fled the state

Democrats said Republicans in the Texas House crossed a line by detaining them en masse and then assigning state troopers to ...

Is this legal? A look at why North Texas Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier remains in state Capitol

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

Texas GOP nears vote on new maps as Democrats stage protest in state House

Texas Republicans are moving closer to approving new congressional maps amid a Democratic show of protest over the GOP House ...

Texas Democrats have returned home, ending redistricting standoff

The Democrats will each be escorted by law enforcement officers to ensure they return Wednesday, as the state GOP prepares to ...

Texas Democrats sleep at the Capitol to protest GOP actions in Texas redistricting fight

Some Texas state House Democrats are refusing to leave the chamber, after Republicans required them to sign a form allowing ...

Some Texas Democrats rip up agreements to leave House floor under police escort and will spend night in chamber in protest

Several Texas state House Democrats plan to rip up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a ...

Democrats return to Texas, clearing way for GOP to draw new map

Texas Democratic lawmakers left two weeks ago to block a GOP plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts. They said ...

Police escort Texas Democrats to prevent new redistricting walkout as California moves to retaliate

Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public ...

Texas Democrats Are Being Tracked by Police to Block Repeat Exit

Generations of Texas politicians have sat, voted and debated in the cushioned leather chairs on the floor of the state’s ...

Texas Democrat locked inside Capitol after refusing to sign slip for mandatory escort

Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because ...