Greatly outnumbered by Republicans, Democrats in the Texas Legislature have little chance to pass major bills and are on ...

Texas Democrats are starting to sound like the ... chamber to protect their majority — which they lost on Tuesday. The minority party also lost ground in the Legislature where Republicans ...

A procedural rule gave Senate Democrats a window to block a slate of Texas GOP bills, a rarity in the Republican-controlled ...

Blocking constitutional amendments is one of the last bits of leverage Texas Democrats have left after House Republicans this session undid the decades-long tradition of giving the minority party ...

Republican Dustin Burrows emerged from his first legislative session wielding the gavel with a laundry list of new ...

Although Democrats have long been a minority of the Texas House, they have had some influence on the edges of issues. They managed to stop some Republican budget measures and are blocking ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ... Sawyer Hackett, a Democratic strategist who works for various Texas Democratic clients, told ABC News on Monday that the seat vacancy comes "at a time ...

TEXAS, USA — This story was first published by The Texas Tribune and can be viewed here. House Democrats are threatening to kill all constitutional amendments for the rest of session unless the ...