Texas state House Democrats plan to leave to break quorum of a special session in which Republicans aim to pass a new ...

Texas Democrats are leaving the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new ...

In an extraordinary move brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, dozens of Texas House Democrats aim to deny a quorum as the GOP is set to draw new maps.

The walkout, which Texas Democrats called an “extraordinary and necessary step,” came a day after a House panel advanced a congressional map that would add five new Republican districts next year.

Democratic lawmakers in Texas are fleeing the state to prevent a vote on a redistricting bill that would greatly benefit Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives.