Texas Democrats Sheila Jackson Lee and Al Green champion sweeping police reform bill in Congress

Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert suggested that the January 6 was a conspiracy set-up by the Democrats and called the arrests of the Capitol rioters "tyranny" in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas on Sunday. Gohmert suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was responsible for...

AUSTIN — Texas House Democrats planned on Monday to flee the state to prevent the Legislature from moving forward with a Republican-backed elections bill, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. The move, invoking memories of a 2003 quorum break over redistricting, would block the House’s ability to...

DALLAS - Governor Greg Abbott signed a handful of bills into law on Monday, including a measure that will bring reform to police practices in Texas. The legislation becoming law improves training, makes some police practices illegal and increases hiring transparency. "It brings all police professions across the state of...

Texas House Democrats’ escape to Washington, D.C. in a bid to kill a controversial elections bill will mark the fifth time in Texas history that lawmakers have fled the Capitol in an attempt to derail legislation they opposed. History shows it’s a splashy move sure to gain national attention —...

Texas Republicans were fuming as Democrats fled the state for Washington on Monday and some took to Twitter to share pictures showing Democrats on a private jet without masks and a D.C.-bound bus with a pack of Miller Lite. “Smiling House Dems fly off to DC on a private jet...

Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. A majority of Texas Democrats will flee the state in order to block the advancement of a series of Republican-backed voter suppression bills barreling their way through the state’s legislature, where floor votes on the new legislation were expected as early as this week.

The fight over voting rights is unfolding during a special session of the Texas Legislature. Republicans lawmakers introduced new legislation to make it harder to vote. Chris Turner, the Texas House Democratic chairman joined American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss the path forward in protecting voting rights.

Texas Republicans are set to bring back a controversial elections reform bill for debate during a special legislative session starting Thursday. House Democrats had managed to block the bill from reaching a vote by staging a walk out in May. Texas Tribune politics reporter James Barragán joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" to discuss the other conservative priorities Republican Governor Greg Abbott has announced for the session, as well as the pressure he's facing from GOP primary challengers.

About a dozen members of Congress are urging the Justice Department to investigate what they claim is unconstitutional voter suppression in Texas. Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro claims the GOP leadership’s efforts to pass a voter integrity bill is an attempt to make it harder for minorities to cast a ballot.

Texas Democrats may consider another walkout during the state’s special legislative session this month after the outnumbered lawmakers’ walkout in May derailed the Republicans’ controversial voting bill by a midnight deadline in the GOP-led legislature. The election reform bill is likely to come up in the special session, according to...

WASHINGTON -- Following their "very robust conversation" with Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic state legislators from Texas conceded that while the Biden administration wants to see federal voting reform legislation make it to the president's desk, the hurdle to passage is the U.S. Senate -- but they aren't giving up on conversations with those lawmakers.

AUSTIN, TX – Texas Senators assembled late last week in a special session called by Gov. Greg Abbott to discuss 11 topics on his agenda—and Texas Republicans advanced a bail reform bill this weekend that has received a lot of attention from criminal justice reform advocates, police officers, the previously incarcerated, and attorneys.

Dallas (CNN) — As Texas' battle over voting rights continues to unfold during the special session in Austin, the outrage stoked by former President Donald Trump's false 2020 election claims was still on full display Saturday a few hours north at the major gathering of conservative activists where Trump will be welcomed as the star attraction Sunday.

Democrats in the Texas Senate proposed their own elections bill on Friday. It comes in response to the elections integrity bills files by Republicans in the Senate and House.

Police professionals support and welcome real police reform. Why is Congress missing a huge opportunity to change and improve police culture in America? The current federal police reform bill includes a laundry list of fragmented proposals designed to create political talking points, not a genuine attempt to fix problem policing where it exists.

ST PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota House Tuesday will debate the public safety bill that grew out of weeks of private negotiations between House Democrats and Senate Republicans. It's one of the final major spending bills still hanging in the 2021 special session just days before a looming partial government shutdown.