The detainment of State Rep. Nicole Collier has drawn outrage and imagery of Black women’s suffrage in America. Texas State

Chairman Abraham George recently traveled to Illinois to join Republicans there in denouncing Texas Democrats.

Lawmakers in Texas are pushing to vote on new election maps that could give the Republican Party five more seats in the U.S. House. The GOP argues the maps are fair, while Democrats walked out of the Capitol.

Democratic lawmakers who fled their state to stymie Republican plans to redraw political maps at the behest of President Donald Trump announced on Monday they were "returning to Texas on our terms," as the battle lines harden 15 months before the U.

The Amarillo businessman said he would tap into the $20 million political action committee he launched last year to preserve ballot access for censured Republicans.

In the Texas legislature, the first special session ended abruptly Friday after Democrats in the House refused to come back and allow a vote on redrawn congressional maps.

Democratic lawmakers in Texas returned to the state on Monday, ending a two-week walkout that broke quorum and temporarily blocked Republican efforts to redraw congressional maps at the behest of U.S.