The map includes redrawn districts that would help defend the Republicans' slim House majority in next year's midterms.

The walkout was a sharp escalation in the bitterly partisan clash over a congressional redistricting requested by President ...

In an extraordinary move to counter Republican redistricting in Texas, dozens of Democrats in the state House are landing in ...

Texas Democrats have fled the state in an effort to keep Republicans from approving a new U.S. House map that could boost ...

Texas state House Democrats plan to leave to break quorum of a special session in which Republicans aim to pass a new ...

The plan increases the share of Hispanic voters in three of the five districts targeted by the GOP, banking that enough will ...

Texas Democrats are leaving the state in an attempt to prevent a vote on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will ...

The bill is now headed to the Texas House for a vote on the floor; the House will begin with the bill on Monday, according to ...

Several Texas lawmakers left the state Sunday in order to block a Monday vote on redrawn congressional maps designed to add five Republican seats in the US House of Representatives.

Democrats have left Texas for a second time in four years in an effort to block a vote by denying the legislature a quorum.

The lawmakers’ absence means the lower chamber won’t have enough members present to function, stalling passage of a draft map ...