In a dramatic escalation of partisan conflict, Texas House Democrats have fled the state to Illinois, effectively blocki ...

State Representative Gene Wu represents a racially diverse corner of Houston when he’s not defending juveniles in court. The ...

After leaving Texas for Illinois to prevent a legislative vote on a Republican redistricting plan, state House Democratic ...

Wu's ethnicity has been a frequent target of Republicans, including party officials, during his time in office.

Gov. Greg Abbott asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu from his seat, arguing that Wu abandoned his office by fleeing the state.

Is Gene Wu back in China?” state Sen. Mayes Middleton, a Galveston Republican, posted on X on Monday — the first day the ...

Texas Democrats left the state to stop a Republican-led effort to change the state’s congressional boundaries, setting off a ...

The Texas Supreme Court said in 2021 the Constitution allows members to thwart legislation by leaving the state. Abbott wants ...

Texas State Rep. Gene Wu (D) on Thursday said Democratic lawmakers would return to the state when their GOP colleagues stop pushing a vote to gain 5 additional House seats before midterm ...

The legislators who fled the state face a daily fine, but they have also left behind their day jobs in Texas in order to ...

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.