Texas House votes to end STAAR testing
| September 12, 2025
The Texas House approved a bill that replaces the state’s STAAR exam with three shorter tests given over the course of the school year starting in 2027.
WATCH: Nicole Collier: ‘I don’t want my people to lose their voice in Congress’
| August 22, 2025
DFW | EXCO-Player | local politics | old texas | redistricting | Republicans | state legislature | TEXAS | TEXAS HOUSE
Watch as state Rep. Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth) shares what’s at stake for Texans, and democracy, if the GOP’s redistricting plan passes. It disenfranchises Black and brown voters and flips five US House seats currently held by Democrats to Republicans.
WATCH: Texas Republican leaders failed us, North Texas lawmaker says
| August 22, 2025
DFW | EXCO-Player | local politics | old texas | redistricting | state legislature | TEXAS | TEXAS HOUSE
Republican lawmakers have “lost track” of their job, according to state Rep. Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth), after putting a vote on redistricting before a vote on flood relief and emergency preparedness legislation.
‘I did it for democracy—and I did it with my son’: The human cost behind Texas Democrats’ walkout
| August 7, 2025
In an effort to block Republican redistricting plans, more than 50 Texas House Democrats fled the state this week—a bold political act that comes with personal consequences.
A power grab in plain sight: Inside Texas Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting push
| July 30, 2025
Gerrymandering | redistricting | Republicans | TEXAS | TEXAS HOUSE | TEXAS POLITICS | voting | VOTING IN TEXAS
Texas Republicans are backing a mid-decade redistricting campaign to secure GOP control of Congress, a move that Democrats and civil rights activists call a partisan power grab driven by Donald Trump.