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Multiple Texas Democrats will spend night inside Texas House ahead of proposed congressional map vote

Multiple Texas House Democrats will spend the night inside the Texas House chamber to protest law enforcement escorts that ...

Where Trump is popular, Democrats look to a new crop of candidates to help win back the House

North Carolina farmer Jamie Ager is part of a new crop of Democratic candidates the party is turning to as it tries to ...

Texas House fails to make a quorum on 6th attempt as Democrats continue holdout, second special session looms

Republican leaders said that if they can't reach a quorum again at 10 a.m., both the House and Senate will wrap up the ...

The Democrats’ Biggest Senate Recruits Have One Thing in Common

But in some of the nation’s biggest Senate races, Democrats are relying on an old strategy of recruiting—and then clearing ...

Democrats release plan to boost party’s California US House seats

While a general notion behind drawing districts is to unite what’s called communities of interest — neighborhoods and cities ...

Obama praises Democrats who fled Texas redistricting vote as ‘inspiring’

Former President Barack Obama praised a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers for fleeing their state to stop a vote on a redistricting bill, calling their actions “inspiring." ...
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Nicole Collier Resists GOP Surveillance, Confined Inside State House

In a dramatic display of protest inside the Texas Capitol, State Representative Nicole Collier (D–Fort Worth), one of the ...

Texas House Rep. Collier to stay in statehouse until Wednesday session

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night in the Austin statehouse and plans to stay there until Wednesday's session ...