The standoff with Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier comes as the Texas legislature moves forward with new congressional maps.

The House speaker ordered chamber doors locked, and democratic lawmakers now need written permission to leave.

Nicole Collier rejects Speaker Dustin Burrows’ pledge to return for Wednesday morning vote on Republican push to redraw state ...

State Representative Nicole Collier plans to stay in the Texas Capitol until Wednesday in protest against a police escort ...

The quorum comes in the second special session. Speaker Burrows asked the doors be locked. Nine teens arrested after brutal ...

A walkout by Democratic legislators in Texas has ended, and Republicans are arranging to push a plan for redrawing the ...

Republicans can move ahead with redrawing Texas’ congressional districts now that Democratic lawmakers have returned to the ...

State Rep. Nicole Collier said she would not fall in line with the GOP House speaker's requirement that Democratic lawmakers ...

Now that the Texas House has a quorum following Democrats’ two-week absence, lawmakers are back to debate a wide range of ...

A Democratic Texas lawmaker has chosen to spend the night in the state House chamber to avoid being shadowed by law ...

Texas Democrat Nicole Collier said she won’t sign “permission slip” to leave the chamber, which would require accepting round ...

“The state of Texas has no right to dictate to children how many gods to worship, which gods to worship, or whether to ...