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

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

The Fort Worth Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after refusing to be shadowed by state police, a requirement ...

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 ...

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

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.

“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 ...

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

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

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

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