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

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

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

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

Kamala Harris thanks Texas Democrats for standing up for the people during a redistricting fight. Democrats face a GOP ...

Activists protest the confinement of Rep. Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth) outside the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol Austin ...

Sam Parker wears an outfit from "The Handmaid's Tale" as she protests the confinement of Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, ...

Texas Democrats are joining a colleague who can't leave the state Capitol because she won't agree to having law enforcement ...

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 spent the night in the Austin statehouse and plans to stay there until Wednesday's session ...

Republicans required their Democratic peers to have an escort to ensure they returned to the chamber on Wednesday following ...