You really are inspiring so many people,” the former vice president told Texas lawmaker Collier, who slept inside the state ...

A Texas House member from Fort Worth prepares to spend another night inside the Capitol in a political showdown over the ...

GOP leadership required Democrats to consent to a police escort in order to leave the building. Collier chose to stay instead ...

The Fort Worth Democrat refused to sign a permission slip that allowed quorum-breaking lawmakers to leave the Capitol while ...

The Fort Worth Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after refusing to be shadowed by state police, a requirement ...

"The government is without any legal authority to detain members when a quorum is not needed to conduct business," reads the ...

Upon returning after a 15-day walkout, Texas House Democrats were asked for consent to be escorted off the floor by DPS ...

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

Rep. Nicole Collier has been in the House for more than 10 hours Monday after she has refused to have a Texas state law ...

Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a ...

The Capitol grounds were cleared after 7 p.m. as a demonstration against a GOP redistricting plan was about to begin. Texas ...

After Democrats returned to the Texas statehouse, Republican leadership assigned law enforcement officers to monitor them to ...