Some Texas state House Democrats are refusing to leave the chamber, after Republicans required them to sign a form allowing Department of Public Safety troopers to follow them.

In an interview with POLITICO, Chris Wright insisted that the Trump administration’s efforts to stifle development of solar and wind power are not causing costs to spike.

Republican lawmakers are expected to quickly pass new voting maps, but Democrats still say they were victorious in the standoff.

Democrats hoping to retake the Senate in the midterm elections next year are targeting the seat of Senator Collins, a Maine Republican who is seen as a moderate.

Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to deny a quorum are making their way back, each on their own timeline, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

That is what abundance is supposed to do,” says Richard Kahlenberg, author of the book “Excluded” and director of housing policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. When Donald Trump took the White House in 2016,

Generations of Texas politicians have sat, voted and debated in the cushioned leather chairs on the floor of the state’s House of Representatives, but few have spent the night in one — let alone with a bonnet and eye mask.

For Trump, the argument that Democrats have let lawlessness run rampant in the cities and states they run goes back even further, as have his efforts to invoke race in his discussions of crime, which my colleague Erica Green wrote about today.

North Carolina farmer Jamie Ager is part of a new crop of Democratic candidates the party is turning to as it tries to compete in the tough, often rural districts it may need to flip to retake the U.S.

"Pod Save America" host Jon Lovett lamented during a podcast interview with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that Democratic voters don't know what the party stands for.