The contest would unearth brewing Democratic tensions over age and experience, forcing Austin politicos to choose between two well-liked progressives.

By leaving, Democrats deny the Republican majority a quorum to pass bills, just days before the Texas House was expected to consider the new district lines.

AUSTIN (KXAN)—Dolores Huerta, a labor and human rights activist, is in Austin this weekend, speaking out against Texas’ controversial congressional redistricting maps. Huerta, the 95-year-old co-founder of the United Farm Workers, will join Beto O’Rourke and Congressmen Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett at a rally at the Capitol on Saturday.

Texas Democratic lawmakers' absence from a special session leads to a legal battle and GOP efforts to enforce their return.

The Texas Democratic Party announced Thursday Harris would speak at its Johnson-Jordan Reception in Austin on Oct. 8. The event is named for former President Lyndon B. Johnson and Rep. Barbara ...

Idaho Democratic Party Executive Director Sally Boynton Brown, who declared her candidacy just yesterday, had similar critiques, as did South Carolina’s Jaime Harrison.

In a display of cutthroat yet calculated politics, Democrats unveiled a proposal Friday that could give California’s dominant political party an additional five U.S. House seats in a bid to win the fight to control Congress next year.