NPR's A Martinez speaks with Texas State Representative Gene Wu, leader of Democrats' effort to block a GOP redistricting initiative in the state. On Friday, Wu faces a deadline to return to Texas.

Texas Democrats are pleading for donations to help finance what could be a walkout of weeks -- if not months -- in a ...

The attorney general is calling on the “full faith and credit” clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says states should ...

Texas Democratic lawmakers remained out of the state Thursday as Republican leaders escalated legal threats to force their return, with Gov. Greg Abbott petitioning the Texas Supreme Court to ...

The legislators who fled the state face a daily fine, but they have also left behind their day jobs in Texas to grind the ...

Texas Democrats left the state to stop a Republican-led effort to change the state’s congressional boundaries, setting off a ...

Gov. Greg Abbott asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu from his seat, arguing that Wu abandoned his office by fleeing the state.

The chair of the Texas House Democratic caucus remained defiant Thursday in the face of one US senator’s bid to enlist the FBI’s help in returning him and his state House colleagues to the state.

Texas State Rep. Gene Wu (D) on Thursday said Democratic lawmakers would return to the state when their GOP colleagues stop ...

In a dramatic escalation of partisan conflict, Texas House Democrats have fled the state to Illinois, effectively blocki ...

Wu's ethnicity has been a frequent target of Republicans, including party officials, during his time in office.