Headline-grabbing stunts rarely succeed in blocking legislation long-term. They generate media attention, rally the base, and ...

Texas Democratic lawmakers expected to confront many uncertainties when they left the state in a last-ditch attempt to block ...

Redistricting typically occurs every 10 years to incorporate the U.S. Census count. Trump has broken with that convention by ...

Texas Democrats stand to be fined nearly $400,000 for fleeing the state in a gambit to stop Republican-led redistricting. And ...

In 1994, Texas elected its second Republican governor since Reconstruction. The state Senate flipped in 1996, and the GOP consolidated its hold on every statewide office two years later. The House was ...

The latest ignominy involves the brazen attempt, by the Republican leadership of the State of Texas, to gerrymander (i.e., redesign) the state’s congressional districts to give the GOP control over an ...

Ahead of a vote on the GOP’s redistricting gambit, Texas Democrats played their final card: They fled the state to block the ...

Red states’ plans to redraw district lines prompt Democrats to retaliate with their own gerrymander push.

Texas’ redistricting efforts have triggered threats of similar action from California and New York — a move that would ...

The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and ...

For months, Democrats have been urging their party to play more hardball in fighting back against President Donald Trump’s ...

The cutthroat political maneuvering in Texas seemed to begin quietly in June, when President Trump’s political team urged ...