Spurred on by Trump, Texas Republicans redrew the boundary lines for U.S. House seats in the state. The new map creates five more GOP-leaning seats.

“The Assembly won’t stand by while our state is targeted. We will fight fire with fire,” said Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is scheduled to deliver remarks Monday afternoon around 4:00 p.m. (EST) with Attorney General ...

Newsom had taken the lead in the conversation, but Texas Democrats fled to Gov. JB Pritzker's Illinois in an effort to deny the legislature a quorum.

Many countries with nominally healthy democracies have something the United States does not: A strong, independent election authority at the national level.

The bitterness that marks the Texas redistricting drama shouldn’t come as a surprise — the fight that’s gripping the country is nothing less than a proxy war between national Republicans and Democrats ...