"You really are inspiring so many people," the former vice president told Collier, who slept inside the Capitol in protest of ...

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 ...

SMU political science professor Matthew Wilson explains the rarely enforced rules being applied during this second special ...

A Fort Worth lawmaker’s sit-in on the Texas House floor picked up steam late Tuesday as fellow Democrats flocked to her side ...

GOP leadership required Democrats to consent to a police escort in order to leave the building. Collier chose to stay instead ...

A Democratic state lawmaker who fled Texas in protest of a GOP redistricting effort is asking a court to let her exit the Capitol, after she was told she needs a police escort to leave the building.

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

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

“Way to go Rep Collier!” Rep. Marc Veasey, a Fort Worth Democrat, said in a post on X. “Don’t sign the slip! This is why we ...

The Texas State Capitol was cleared of visitors Tuesday evening and closed to the public after a social media threat, the ...