Rewrite history, restrict the vote, silence dissent, consolidate power. It is the playbook of strongmen the world over.

Follow here for the latest updates as the Texas House debates President Donald Trump's plan to gerrymander five new GOP ...

House Bill 4, the redistricting legislation, is the only item on the lawmakers' agenda when they reconvene on Wednesday.

Other Texas Democrats, including from DFW, joined Rep. Nicole Collier after they tore up their “permission slips” to leave ...

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

The Texas House of Representatives will gavel back into session at 10 a.m. Wednesday with the controversial proposal ...

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

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier refused to come to the Texas state Capitol for two weeks. Now she won’t leave, and fellow Democrats are joining her protest.

Several Texas Democrats joined state Rep. Nicole Collier (D) on Tuesday to protest new guidelines preventing party members ...

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

On Monday, Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public ...

After Democrats spent several weeks delaying a vote, the Texas House is poised to vote on new congressional district that ...