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Nearly nine months after Republican Donald Trump won a second presidential term, Democrats appear to be harboring more ...
Dozens of Texas Democrats were headed to Illinois on Sunday.They left the Lone Star State in a last-ditch effort to disrupt a ...
Jim Dunnam led the 2003 quorum break that stalled redistricting once before. Now he’s watching a new generation of Democrats ...
Some of the Democratic legislators fleeing Texas will appear on Sunday evening with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker at a press conference.
Democrats in Texas' House have left the state to prevent the vote on a redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump that would send five more Republicans to Washington after the 2026 midterm ...
To conduct official business, at least 100 members of the 150-member Texas House must be present. Democrats hold 62 of the ...
The lawmakers’ absence means the lower chamber won’t have enough members present to function, stalling passage of a draft map ...
After a state House committee advanced the new map earlier this weekend, state Democrats were weighing the option of fleeing Texas in order to break quorum.
Earlier on Sunday, more than 51 Texas Democratic lawmakers flew to Chicago in order to break quorum, all but derailing a vote ...