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Texas 2025: Year in Photos

Photojournalists document another year across Texas. Our photos illustrated the tense redistricting debate at the Capitol, the aftermath of the Hill County floods and more.

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Texas House Democrats say they are keeping their options open for speaker in 2027

Speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival, Democratic Rep. Donna Howard acknowledged that Republicans have unified around Speaker Dustin Burrows to the point that he “may not need us” to retain the gavel.

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Texas senate gives final approval to redrawn congressional map that heavily favours Republicans

The map will now be sent to governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, who is expected to quickly sign it into law

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Texas Republicans pass gerrymandered congressional map requested by Trump

Redrawn map fiercely opposed by Democrats now moves to state senate, where it is expected to pass

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‘She has broken zero laws’: GOP bullies seriously making a Democrat sleep on the House floor for days

Nicole Collier has spent the last two nights sleeping on the House floor of the Texas Capitol.

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The Latest: Texas GOP poised to approve map gerrymandered for their advantage

The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new winnable seats for the GOP

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Kamala Harris Thanks Nicole Collier And Texas Democrats: 'We Are All In That Chamber With You'

Former Vice President Kamala Harris phoned Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier (D-Texas) on Tuesday, thanking the Fort Worth Democrat for "standing up for the people" after Collier spent the night on the House floor rather than accept a round-the-clock police escort ordered for Democrats who broke quorum in a redistricting…

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Texas Democrats tear ‘permission slips’ imposed by Republican house speaker

Lawmakers refuse to vacate house chamber in protest at surveillance after they left state over effort to redraw maps

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Nicole Collier, Texas lawmaker who slept at statehouse, files lawsuit challenging police escorts

The Fort Worth Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after refusing to be shadowed by state police, a requirement for lawmakers who had left the state over the GOP redistricting plan.

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Jasmine Crockett says GOP has lost minds over ‘locked doors’, ‘permission slips’, and ‘police escorts’

Things are still tense in Austin, Texas.

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Rep. Nicole Collier spends night on Texas House floor after refusing police escort

The Fort Worth Democrat refused to sign a permission slip that allowed quorum-breaking lawmakers to leave the Capitol while being shadowed by a state trooper.

The Texas Tribune

Nicole Collier Locked In: Texas Lawmaker Claims She's Being Held Hostage by GOP Rules

Texas Democrat Nicole Collier says she is 'locked in' the House chamber after refusing GOP escort rules, sparking protests and a redistricting showdown.

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Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem announces new Ice jail in Nebraska amid Trump crackdown – as it happened

Department plans ‘Cornhusker Clink’ for south-western part of state, latest in string of new detention facilities

The Guardian - US

Texas Democrat remains locked in House chamber after refusing GOP law enforcement escort

Nicole Collier rejects Speaker Dustin Burrows’ pledge to return for Wednesday morning vote on Republican push to redraw state’s electoral map

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Democrats lash out as Legislature bans school clubs that support gay teens

Tensions flared and the debate turned personal as Republicans said their bill empowered parents and denied predictions that the ban will endanger children.

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Will lawmakers let Texas’ maternal mortality committee review abortion deaths?

The Legislature is considering bills that would lift long-standing restrictions on how Texas’ panel can investigate maternal deaths and near-misses.

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Texas leaders defend Black official after lawmaker’s public interrogation of DEI policies left her in tears

The topic was a budget request from a state agency. The exchange grew emotional when a lawmaker pressed for answers about a strategic plan that praises diversity.

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Heat intensifies around Houston Democrat Shawn Thierry ahead of bitter runoff

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, a Dallas Democrat who previously served in the Texas House with Thierry, spoke at a campaign event where she condemned her former colleague.

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Explosion at historic Texas hotel injures 11 and scatters debris in downtown Fort Worth

Authorities say an explosion at a historic Texas hotel in Fort Worth on Monday blew out windows, littered downtown streets with large piles of debris from the building and injured 11 people, including one person who is in critical condition

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Texans affected by pollution from concrete plants push state agency to tighten regulations

As the state’s environmental agency weighs new pollution limits on the plants, several lawmakers have filed bills that would put new restrictions on the facilities, which spew pollutants into mostly low-income neighborhoods.

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