The Rainbow PUSH Coalition is standing with Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled their state to halt a redistricting vote.

Texas House of Representatives House Speaker Dustin Burrows gavels in on the fourth day legislators lacked a quorum because Democratic lawmakers left the state denying Republicans the opportunity to redraw the state's 38 congressional districts,

Republicans had warned they would escalate efforts to end the nearly weeklong holdout if defiant Democrats do not return to the state Capitol. But the Democrats who bolted for points across the country on Aug.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to expand Republicans’ power grab over the state’s congressional maps even further. If... As we’ve noted, Gov. Abbott earlier this week leapfrogged his own attorney general in trying to get at least one Texas Democrat’s seat declared vacant.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott claims FBI is tracking down Democratic lawmakers who fled the state. Lawmakers who took money to help fund their absence from Texas could face prosecution, Abbott said. Experts question FBI's involvement in state politics.

During a brief session Friday, state House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) announced the chamber did not have enough members present to conduct business.

Texas Democrats on Friday again defied Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the state GOP and did not show for a vote on a Republican-proposed redistricting plan Shortly after, the state's Republican attorney general went to court to try to remove some of them from office.