California Democrats are taking a series of votes in a bid to pass a mid-decade redistricting plan, a day after Republicans in the Texas House passed new maps of their own. In California, the state Assembly and Senate are taking up a trio of bills that will allow for a special election to pass a constitutional amendment to replace the state’s existing congressional maps through 2030.

The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new wi...

Texas Democratic lawmakers delayed the vote for 15 days by leaving the state in protest, depriving the House of enough members to do business.

The Texas House advanced legislation Thursday that responds to last month’s deadly floods, finally tackling the issue after the chamber approved new congressional maps on Wednesday.

Parents of the Camp Mystic campers who died in the Hill Country flooding testified before a Senate committee on Wednesday to advocate for new safety reforms.

Parents of young girls who died in devastating flooding in Texas while staying at Camp Mystic have given emotional testimony about the impact of their loss.

Several Texas state House Democrats ripped up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort and returned to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.

state Rep. Nicole Collier was inside the chambers, having spent a rumpled night there in a one-woman standoff against state Republicans.

When they returned Monday, Republicans insisted that Democrats have around-the-clock police escorts to ensure they wouldn’t leave again and scuttle Wednesday’s planned House vote on a new political ma...