Texas Democrats have ended a two-week walkout that stalled efforts to redraw congressional districts as part of a national partisan brawl over President Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps to ...

Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier has now spent over 24 hours on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of ...

On Monday, Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” ...

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The Texas House is adjourned until Wednesday morning. But one state representative is staying in the chamber, staging a ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, is making headlines as she remains on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives after she refused to sign a document to be assigned ...

Shortly after, a protest formed inside the Capitol with chants in support of Collier, including four women sitting outside ...

Democratic Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier returned to the Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the building ...

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

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night in the Texas Capitol building rather than agree to a police monitor amid ...

The state isn’t providing schools with guidance and advocates say students who still qualify for lower rates are being asked ...