Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a ...

The state representative returned to Austin this week for a second special session after leaving to break quorum in the last session. She didn’t expect she’d end up sleeping in the House chambers.

Rep. Nicole Collier was among the state Democrats who left the state earlier this month to stall the Texas redistricting ...

Collier stayed on the House floor overnight, sleeping in the chamber, alongside two other lawmakers, House Democratic Caucus Chair State Rep. Gene Wu (D-Houston) and State Rep. Vince Perez (D-El Paso) ...

As a part of the ongoing protests, one Houston representative spent the night at the Capitol, while another remains out of state.

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

A protest is planned Tuesday outside of the House chamber where one lawmaker is refusing to leave after rejecting monitoring ...

Multiple Texas House Democrats will spend the night inside the Texas House chamber to protest law enforcement escorts that have been following them around to ensure they show up to the Capitol on ...

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier refused to come to the Texas state Capitol for two weeks. Now she won't leave, and ...

The Texas legislature is going from not being able to keep its Democratic lawmakers to not being able to get them out of the Capitol. A Texas state lawmaker from Fort Worth chose to remain locked ...

Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public Safety officers ...