With monthly salaries of just $600, the runaway state legislators must rely on donations from PACs and private donors to ...

State Rep. Philip Cortez (D-San Antonio) is one of the few Democratic lawmakers in the Texas House who is not out-of-state as ...

Texas House Democrats in Illinois say they are committed to staying out of their state until the special session ends August ...

Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the ...

The Rainbow PUSH Coalition is standing with Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled their state to halt a redistricting vote.

Veterans in Evanston react to Trump administration's cuts in federal workforce and VA staff reductions. Impact on services and benefits discussed.

Lawmakers who fled Texas for Illinois to prevent an unprecedented mid-decade redrawing of congressional maps to benefit ...

Ken Paxton is asking that California law enforcement officers be allowed to arrest Texas House Democrats who are staying in ...

Texas state Democrats had been plotting their departure for weeks. But most weren’t sure they were going—or where they were ...

Logistics of moving primary dates, diluting Democratic districts way harder than political theater now playing out.

We are about to find out, in real time, whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation remains a neutral law-enforcement agency ...

WGN Political Analyst Paul Lisnek joined WGN Evening News to discuss several big political stories from the week.