The first week of the Texas Legislature's special session is in the books. Lawmakers held hearings in Austin on some of the highest-profile items on the agenda, including flood response, redistricting and regulating THC.

Now, Texas Republicans want to break that tradition — and other states could follow suit.

“There’s been a lot more efforts by the parties and political actors to push the boundaries – literally and figuratively – to reconfigure what the game is,” said Doug Spencer, Rothgerber Jr. Chair in...

The Texas House’s redistricting committee visited Houston on Saturday to hear out local residents’ concerns on the state Legislature’s plans to consider redrawing nearly a handful of congressional di...

Now, Texas Republicans want to break that tradition — and other states could follow suit.

As Texas Republicans plow ahead with a plan to redraw congressional maps ahead of schedule, many governors across the U.S. are increasingly grappling with an issue that they didn’t think they’d have to confront until the end of the decade.

Democrats in the Texas House, struggling to beat back an aggressive Republican redistricting effort, traveled on Friday to meet with the Democratic governors of California and Illinois who have sugge...