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Texas House Democrats plan to return to the state after fleeing to block GOP redistricting efforts, local Texas media has confirmed.
Texas Republican leaders say they're prepared to end their stalemated legislative special session and immediately begin ...
The Texas Senate passed a GOP-friendly House map on Tuesday, putting it a step closer to final passage in the state Legislature. The upper chamber voted 19-2 to pass a new set of congressional lines ...
The Texas Senate’s marathon session Tuesday wasn’t without its own political drama. Early on, nine of the chamber’s Democrats ...
When House Democratic lawmakers left Texas to delay passage of a new congressional map, Gov. Greg Abbott took the unprecedented step of asking the Texas Supreme Court to expel their caucus leader from ...
A political standoff over redistricting continues in the Texas Legislature as House Democrats remain out of state, preventing ...
In this week’s episode, Matthew and Eleanor ask University of Houston law professor David Froomkin to help them break down the legal cases seeking to remove 13 Democrats from the Texas House.
Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dustin Burrows — said Tuesday the Legislature will adjourn its current overtime session on Friday, and the governor will immediately call ...
Trump administration live updates: National Guard expected to be deployed in D.C. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday asked a Tarrant County judge to jail former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, in another escalation in Republicans’ broader effort to put an end to Texas ...
Specifically, they're talking about the political hardball that Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and super-majority legislative Democrats played when, in 2021, they gerrymandered rival Republicans into ...
The Austin Police Department is actively investigating a shooting at the North Austin Target store that left three people dead and one other injured on Monday.