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.

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

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier was told she was not free to leave the building after refusing to sign a permission slip ...

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 ...

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 ...