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

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

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

Texas Republicans assigned law enforcement to escort specific Democrats to and from the statehouse after dozens left to block ...

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

Rep. Nicole Collier was forced off a call with the Democratic National Committee that she had joined while under House arrest ...

The Capitol grounds were cleared after 7 p.m. as a demonstration against a GOP redistricting plan was about to begin. Texas ...

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.

A state lawmaker has refused to leave the Texas Capitol as Republicans use police to prevent Democrats from fleeing the state ...

House Republicans in Texas are about to pass a Trump-backed congressional map meant to strip Democrats of five U.S. House seats, sparking a national feud over partisan redistricting. Texas State Rep.

Rep. Nicole Collier is one of dozens of Democrats who fled Texas earlier this month to block a vote on a Trump-backed redistricting plan.

Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a ...