Rewrite history, restrict the vote, silence dissent, consolidate power. It is the playbook of strongmen the world over.

Follow here for the latest updates as the Texas House debates President Donald Trump's plan to gerrymander five new GOP ...

The effort is intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats in the midterm elections. Other states, red and blue ...

House Bill 4, the redistricting legislation, is the only item on the lawmakers' agenda when they reconvene on Wednesday.

Other Texas Democrats, including from DFW, joined Rep. Nicole Collier after they tore up their “permission slips” to leave ...

In sports, the winning team doesn’t get to rewrite the rules to guarantee it’ll never lose again. In a democracy, the same ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - For the first time in over two weeks, the House is scheduled to discuss and potentially vote on redistricting the state’s congressional map.

The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new ...

The Texas House of Representatives will gavel back into session at 10 a.m. Wednesday with the controversial proposal ...

The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature is poised to vote soon on a redistricting plan that resulted from prodding by ...

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier refused to come to the Texas state Capitol for two weeks. Now she won’t leave, and fellow Democrats are joining her protest.