Participants on the press event also criticized the recent redistricting legislation. State lawmakers said that should not be ...

They already have more power than the vote totals justify,” Scudder said. “This isn’t about fairness — it’s about locking in ...

Texas Republicans ended a legislative session without approving new congressional maps. Meanwhile, California Democrats are ...

The second session is set to consider the same agenda that stalled in the first, with redistricting and disaster response at ...

A second special session was called Friday after the Texas House failed to make a quorum for a sixth time in a row, amid Democrats leaving the state to protest a redistricting plan expected to favor ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a second special legislative session would begin at noon Friday setting the stage for another redistricting fight like the one that snarled the first session.

Republicans hold a 219-212 majority in the House, with four vacancies. New maps are typically drawn once a decade after the ...

For the sixth consecutive time the Texas House failed to reach the 100 member quorum needed to conduct business Friday ...

The new special session started Friday with threats to House Democrats, who have signaled their intention to return to Texas ...

Gov. Greg Abbott released his second special session proclamation moments after the state legislature officially called its first special to a close. The governor told lawmakers to begin work Friday ...

The congressional map that Democrats broke quorum to stop is expected to pass in the second special session, but the House lawmakers are still declaring victory.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday called a second special session to push through a redrawing of congressional maps to secure up to five more Republican seats in the US House. Unlike the first special ...