After leaving Texas for Illinois to prevent a legislative vote on a Republican redistricting plan, state House Democratic ...

Texas Democratic lawmakers remained out of the state Thursday as Republican leaders escalated legal threats to force their return, with Gov. Greg Abbott petitioning the Texas Supreme Court to ...

The legislators who fled the state face a daily fine, but they have also left behind their day jobs in Texas in order to ...

Texas Democrats left the state to stop a Republican-led effort to change the state’s congressional boundaries, setting off a ...

The chair of the Texas House Democratic caucus remained defiant Thursday in the face of one US senator’s bid to enlist the FBI’s help in returning him and his state House colleagues to the state.

In a dramatic escalation of partisan conflict, Texas House Democrats have fled the state to Illinois, effectively blocki ...

Wu's ethnicity has been a frequent target of Republicans, including party officials, during his time in office.

Houston State Rep. Gene Wu, who Gov. Greg Abbott called the "ringleader" of Texas Democrats who fled, and other party leaders reported a bomb threat on Wednesday.

Abbott is pushing to vacate seats of legislators who fled Texas to halt passage of a GOP-engineered congressional map.

The Republican motto — since Nixon sabotaged LBJ‘s Vietnam peace negotiations and Reagan blew up Carter’s deal to get the ...

Tonight on The Weeknight, MSNBC hosts Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez were joined by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) and Rep. Nikema Williams (D-Ga.) to discuss Texas ...

A bomb threat was made at the Illinois hotel where Texas Democratic lawmakers are staying after fleeing the state to block a ...