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

Texas Democrats are joining a colleague who can't leave the state Capitol because she won't agree to having law enforcement ...

SMU political science professor Matthew Wilson explains the rarely enforced rules being applied during this second special ...

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

A Fort Worth lawmaker’s sit-in on the Texas House floor picked up steam late Tuesday as fellow Democrats flocked to her side ...

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

Sam Parker wears an outfit from "The Handmaid's Tale" as she protests the confinement of Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, ...

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

Why it matters: Rep. Nicole Collier's court filing is an escalation of a two-week standoff between Texas Democrats and ...

The standoff began on Monday, when Democratic members returned to the Capitol after being out of the state for more than two ...

A Democratic state lawmaker who fled Texas in protest of a GOP redistricting effort is asking a court to let her exit the Capitol, after she was told she needs a police escort to leave the building.

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night in the Austin statehouse and plans to stay there until Wednesday's session ...