Texas redistricting standoff: Texas Democrats are staying away from the state to prevent a vote on a map that would split the Austin, TX district.

The House map aims to give Republicans five more pickup opportunities, impacting lawmakers in the Austin, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Rio Grande Valley areas. The move in the Texas Senate ...

The senator said the agency had agreed to help locate Democratic state legislators who departed to try to block a vote on congressional maps. Democrats said federal law enforcement was being misused.

Senate Bill 4 is the same map as the one the House proposed, which includes significant changes for voters in Austin, Houston, North Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley.

Why have the Rio Grande Valley's lawmakers chosen to stay while Democrats flee Texas? More than 50 Democratic lawmakers fled the state earlier this week, encamping to Illinois, Boston and New York ...

Why most Rio Grande Valley Dems stayed as others fled Texas over redistricting “If that were true that South Texas was shifting red, they would not need to chop up these lines." ...

Cartographers have spent half a millennium tracing the development of what is now Texas—and changed our history along the way.

With temperatures regularly rising past 105 to 110 degrees, Rio Grande Village is the hottest place in Texas. Pictured here is from the Rio Grande Village Nature Trail, which offers views of the ...

Abbott says Texas Democrats abandoned their duty. No, they fled to protect voters from Trump's redistricting scheme.

Barack Obama called Texas Republicans' push to add five new Republican congressional seats "a power grab that undermines our democracy." ...

Texas and California are at the center of a national political power struggle that could reshape Trump's second presidency. And the battle could last months. In Texas, Republican lawmakers are ...