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Redistricting Fight Escalates in Texas Capitol: Live Updates

Texas GOP set to pass map adding 5 House seats, triggering national redistricting fight and Democratic retaliation. Follow Newsweek's live blog.

Even at the grocery store, Texas troopers don’t let Democrats out of sight after walkout

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

LIVE NOW: Parents of Camp Mystic flood victims testify at Texas Capitol

A group of parents whose children attended Camp Mystic and died in flooding in Central Texas on July 4 will testify before ...

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 ...

Lawmaker’s sit-in on the Texas House floor attracts more Democrats in second day

Fort Worth Democrat Nicole Collier refused to sign the permission slip Monday that allow her to leave only if she is shadowed ...

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 ...

Texas GOP's congressional redistricting plan poised to pass, despite Democrats' protests

Texas lawmakers are set to vote as early as Wednesday on state Republicans' controversial congressional redistricting map.