The governor also alleged absconding Democrats may have committed felonies by fundraising to cover the $500-a-day fines they ...

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t ...

Texas lawmakers are poised to approved an aggressive redistricting plan they hope will flip five of the state's congressional ...

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This past Thursday should have been a beautiful day, a day to throw open the windows and putter in the garden, long-awaited ...

Trump has asked Texas Republicans to redistrict now, mid-decade, in order to cut up five districts that tend to vote ...

Democratic lawmakers in Texas said they were leaving the state to deny Republicans the quorum needed to redraw the state's 38 ...

While Gov. J.B. Pritzker tried to decide whether to sign legislation authorizing unaffordable pension increases for Chicago ...

Peoria is not the company town it used to be, but it has a future. And its survival holds lessons for other Rust Belt cities ...

The redistricting battle is opening the possibility to a larger redistricting arms race as blue and red states alike leave ...

This corrupt special session is over,” said Democratic leader Gene Wu, less than a day before House Republicans are set to ...