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

Under threat of fines and arrest, Democratic members of the Texas House left for Chicago to deny the GOP a quorum needed to ...

A second threat was reported Friday at the suburban Chicago hotel and convention center that was housing Texas Democrats in ...

Democrats have left Texas for a second time in four years in an effort to block a vote by denying the legislature a quorum.

A mix of Democratic lawmakers from Illinois and Texas met in Chicago Monday for a press conference slamming republicans’ ...

"This is what happens when Republican state leaders publicly call for us to be 'hunted down,'" one Texas Democratic lawmaker ...

Texas House Democrats flee the state to delay a Republican-driven redistricting plan. A vote on a bill is scheduled for ...

Houston State Rep. Gene Wu, who Gov. Greg Abbott called the "ringleader" of Texas Democrats who fled, and other party leaders reported a bomb threat on Wednesday.

Adam Robinson, chairman of the Chicago Republican Party, said the effort has a $250,000 operating budget, of which $100,000 has been raised.

It is going to be a legitimate party," he said. Thayer admits it will be a challenge to craft an East Chicago Republican party into a force to contend with. "It's going to be a slow process," he said.