Parts of the Texas Capitol grounds were evacuated and closed to visitors on Tuesday evening after reports of an active shooter threat.The building itself was s ...

The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas ...

Texas Democrats are joining a colleague who can't leave the state Capitol because she won't agree to having law enforcement ...

Partisan redistricting may stick it to Republicans, but does nothing to address Democrats' lack of a more resonant message.

Will a Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections free American democracy from the ...

Several hundred people gathered in Tallahassee to celebrate Thrasher, a former FSU president and House Speaker who died at ...

Texas Democrats end walkout as GOP-controlled legislature prepares to vote on redistricting maps that could flip five congressional seats to Republicans ...

Texas Republicans on Wednesday will take up a new state congressional map intended to flip five Democratic-held U.S. House ...

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 ...

Thirty states, as well as Washington, D.C., allow voters to register with a political party. Here’s what the data shows.

Texas Republicans are moving closer to approving new congressional maps amid a Democratic show of protest over the GOP House ...

The White House is now within the window of attempting a contentious “pocket rescission” to cancel federal cash no matter what Congress says.