The Rainbow PUSH Coalition is standing with Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled their state to halt a redistricting vote.

In her new book 'Divided Parties, Strong Leaders,' UChicago political scientist Ruth Bloch Rubin analyzes factional splits in ...

Texas Democrats in Chicago have declared victory after a two-week battle to prevent Republicans from redrawing districting ...

Democratic state lawmakers in Texas have left the state to avoid a vote on redistricting despite Republican pressure.

Democrats have left Texas for a second time in four years in an effort to block a vote by denying the legislature a quorum.

Representative Doug LaMalfa went against his party leadership’s advice and held a town hall. It didn’t go as planned.

Texas state Rep. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins, flanked by state Reps. Ron Reynolds and Charlene Ward Johnson, called the GOP ...

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said he “can’t rule anything out” and hammered the Texas ...

For those who haven’t noticed, Illinois has a new political tradition — one foreign to what it had for decades.

The GOP-driven proposal to redraw Texas' congressional boundaries takes aim at North Texas Democrats and shuffles voters of color.

"This is what happens when Republican state leaders publicly call for us to be 'hunted down,'" one Texas Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday.

They already have more power than the vote totals justify,” Scudder said. “This isn’t about fairness — it’s about locking in ...