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Despite removal threats, Texas Democrats remain scattered across the nation as House Speaker Dustin Burrows prepares to gavel ...

Texas Democrats are under mounting pressure to return to the state as Republicans push for a quorum to advance key ...

House Democrats are probing the FBI's efforts to help locate a group of Democratic state legislators from Texas who fled the ...

Using the FBI to track down AWOL Texas Democrats is an unnecessary expansion of federal law enforcement authority.

Greg Abbott is trying to remove and replace the absent Democrats from the Capitol, as well as exploring charging them with ...

The Texas House is set to meet as Republican legislators say that Friday is the deadline for Democratic legislators who've fled the state to return or face consequences.

TM: There’s been a lot of legal threats swirling around this, from Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, Donald Trump, Greg Abbott. How ...

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking a victory lap for spearheading a multi-state lawsuit taking on the ...

U.S. Senator John Cornyn has announced that the FBI have agreed to assist in locating and investigating the Texas House ...

Despite removal threats, Texas Democrats remain scattered across the nation as House Speaker Dustin Burrows prepares to gavel ...

Several Republicans are opening the door to getting the FBI involved in forcing Texas Democrats to return to the state amid a protest over an even friendlier congressional map the GOP wants to ...