Official statements, announcements, and news from the Texas House Democratic Caucus.
After more than 30 years of total control, Republicans skip the grid, cost of living, pollution, and ICE attacks on Texans to create committees for problems they caused
Read More“Our region has been experiencing drought for years, and waterways like Onion Creek and the Blanco River run dry,” said Rep. Zwiener. “Residents cut back on water use only to see rates skyrocket or wells go dry as demand increases. Now, big industrial users like data centers threaten our already scarce water resources. Something has to give, and together, this coalition will create real actionable policy solutions to protect our most precious resource.”
Read MoreThe hearing, scheduled for March 18 by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, seeks to challenge the 1982 ruling that originated in Texas.
Read MoreRep. Rose, a former CPS investigator, backs court-appointed receivership after a private contractor failed 17 improvement plans in two years
Read MoreKordia was freed on bond after an immigration judge ordered her release for the third time and the government declined to appeal
Read MoreAs of 10:00am, three have died and 14 are injured in the early morning shooting on West 6th Street in Downtown Austin
Read MoreThe first-ever public use of Rule 4, Section 6A will compel the Republican House leadership to schedule a public hearing on the year-long concealment of ICE killing of San Antonio man
Read MoreToday, 39 members of the Texas House Democratic Caucus called on State Rep. Cole Hefner (R-Mount Pleasant) to convene an interim hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security...
Read MoreLetter signed by 46 House members demands accountability for deaths in custody, militarized enforcement, and due process violations
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Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas House Democrats are condemning Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock’s move to strip 15,000 women- and minority-owned businesses of their certification from the state’s Historically U...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ruling of a Trump-appointed federal judge that Texas had racially discriminated in its 2025 Congressional redistricting, Texas House Democratic leaders issued the following statements...
Read MoreRepublicans' crackdown on professors, students, and faculty threatens academic freedom across Texas.
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Read MoreLetter urges governor to follow lead set by Republican governors in other states to temporarily fund program.
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Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas House Democrats condemned today’s state takeover of Fort Worth ISD, calling it the latest example of Republican leadership’s systematic assault on local control and Texans’ neigh...
Read MoreThe leaders of the Texas Democratic Party and the Texas House Democrats released statements after Greg Abbott announced he was deploying National Guard and DPS Troopers to intimidate Texans during the No Kings Rally...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — "Amid reports that Governor Greg Abbott authorized the deployment of several hundred Texas nationa...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, Texas Republicans passed a vindictive resolution to punish lawmakers who break quorum, confirming tha...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, the Texas House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 8, a bill designed to create bathroom witch hunts for political profit against Texans across the state. This hateful and di...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, Texas Republicans passed the most extreme abortion restriction in the United States, while callously rejecting every single Democratic amendment designed to protect Texas women...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas House Democrats joined Lives Robbed, a coalition of Uvalde families who lost children in the Robb Elementary School shooting, to condemn the passage of HB 15, legislation that de...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Nearly two months after the deadliest floods in modern Texas history claimed 137 lives, including scores of children, relief is finally on the way — but only after Republicans secured...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, Texas House Republicans, led by Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-Deer Park), cowardly hid behind a procedural...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Rep. Nicole Collier, who heroically spent 48 hours camped out on the Texas House Floor rather than submit to a demeaning “permission slip” and 24-hour surveillance by Texas law enforce...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, Texas House Minority Leader Rep. Gene Wu will introduce an amendment to H.B. 4, 89(2), the...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — After reports of a social media threat prompting the evacuation and closure of the Texas State Capitol, Rep. Nicole Collier and Texas House Minority Leader Rep. Gene Wu issued the foll...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas House Democrats returned to Austin this morning to launch the next phase in their fight against the racist gerrymander that provoked a weeks-long standoff with Governor Abbott an...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — State Representative Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth) is currently being detained on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives after taking a principled stand against unprecedented...
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Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — After racist, Islamophobic attacks were levied against him, the Texas House Democratic Caucus issued the following statement in support of Rep. Salman Bhojani: “Rep. Bhojani represent...
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Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu (D-Houston) issued the following statement after the House Redistricting Committee voted to pass Congressional redistricting on a party-line...
Read MoreAUSTIN, Texas—TODAY, U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries will join Texas Congressional Democrats to support Democratic state legislators as they fight to protect the voice and voting power of...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu today issued the following statement in response to Governor Greg Abbott’s release of the congressional maps for his Trump Takeover special...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — A delegation of Texas House Democrats met with New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to discuss strategies for effective disaster response and preparations for the [severe budget...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Following successful [meetings](https://us15.campaign-archive.com/?u=a88759cc44ad5e611c911a8e8&id=d...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — As Governor Greg Abbott’s special session devolves into chaos over his attempt to rig elections for Donald Trump, members of the Texas House Democratic Caucus departed Texas this morni...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — After the Republican chairman of the Texas House Redistricting Committee abruptly ended public testimony, leaving dozens of Texans who traveled across the state unable to speak, Democr...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — On Monday, Governor Greg Abbott called Texas lawmakers back to the state capitol for a special session on, among other issues, flood relief and mid-decade redistricting. In multiple in...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Forty-eight Texas House Democrats today sent a letter to Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, deman...
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Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — After reports that Donald Trump told the Texas Republican Congressional...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Forty-six Texas House Democrats today sent a letter to Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz demanding they reject the devastating One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which would slash bil...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — While Gov. Gregg Abbott signed a $338 billion budget, the one thing he couldn't stomach funding was the Summer EBT program that would have provided food assistance to kids when they lo...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas House Democrats are profoundly devastated by the politically-motivated assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the attempted murder...
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Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — The 89th Regular Texas Legislative Session came to a close today, after 140 days of Republicans passing an extreme agenda that put billionaire donors ahead of Texas families’ needs. De...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — After weeks of delays and pressure, the House and Senate are in alignment on House Bill 2, the $8.5 billion bill to fund Texas schools after 6 years held hostage by Greg Abbott. Thanks...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Rep. Ben Bumgarner (R-Flower Mound) yesterday voted for a bill echoing the infamous "separate but equal” doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that upheld rac...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Rep. Cole Hefner (R-Mt. Pleasant) yesterday voted for a bill echoing the infamous "separate but equal” doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that upheld racia...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Rep. Lacey Hull (R-Houston) yesterday voted for a bill echoing the infamous "separate but equal” doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that upheld racial segr...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Rep. Lopez (R-San Benito) yesterday voted for a bill echoing the infamous "separate but equal” doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that upheld racial segreg...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Rep. John Lujan (R-San Antonio) yesterday voted for a bill echoing the infamous "separate but equal” doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that upheld racial...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Rep. Terry Wilson (R-Georgetown) yesterday voted for a bill echoing the infamous "separate but equal” doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that upheld racial...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas House Republicans yesterday voted for a bill echoing the infamous "separate but equal” doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court ruling that upheld racial segregat...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, House Republicans passed SB 17, a racist and blatantly unconstitutional Anti-Alien Land Law that would restrict the right to own and lease property based solely on national orig...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Governor Greg Abbott wasted no time signing his $10 billion private school voucher scam with all the fanfare of a billionaire’s birthday party, but seems to have lost his pen when it c...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — While Republicans continue to look the other way on the costs of their disastrous “look the other way” approach to climate policy, extreme storms are driving Texas home insurance costs...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — In a stunning display of their contempt for the people they serve, House Republicans today blocked an amendment that would have allowed Texas voters to decide the fate of Governor Abbo...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — While Republicans are ready to pour a multi-billion dollar budget surplus down the drain, Texas House Democrats know there are better ways to spend taxpayer funds – to tackle the affor...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — As Texas House members prepare to cast votes on the largest budget in Texas history, Republicans are once again showing their total detachment from the real needs of Texans. With a sta...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, the Texas House Committee on Public Health heard public testimony reflecting overwhelming bipartisan support for HB 44, the Life of the Mother Act. The bill, which would restore...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — After Texas House Republicans scheduled a formal Public Education Committee vote on Greg Abbott’s billion-dollar private school voucher scam — behind closed doors, with just 24 hours'...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, House Democrats joined Asian Texans for Justice and other advocacy groups for a press conference at the Texas Capitol to strongly denounce House Bill 17, a blatantly unconstitut...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — The Texas House Democratic Caucus reaffirms that its members remain completely united in opposition to Greg Abbott’s voucher scam, which would divert precious taxpayer dollars from nei...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, while Governor Greg Abbott hosted Arizona Governor Doug Ducey to promote his voucher scam, Austin 5th grade public school math teacher Tay Carriker-Cavin delivered a tough lesso...
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Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, House Democrats announced Safer & Stronger Texas, a comprehensive public safety plan featuring 25 bipartisan bills designed to keep violent criminals off the streets while addre...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — In a stunning display of public opposition, hundreds of Texans traveled from across the state to testify against the latest iteration of Greg Abbott’s voucher scam bill. Testimony stre...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Today, House Democrats held a press conference to voice their opposition to House Bill 3, the school voucher scam bill currently under consideration in the Public Education Committee....
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — New polling confirms what Texans already know: an overwhelming bipartisan majority of voters oppos...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Donald Trump and Co-President Elon Musk have launched an attack on the programs that hard-working Texans rely on under the guise of "[government efficiency](https://www.independent.co....
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — The Texas House Democratic Caucus joins Houstonians and Texans across the state in mourning the loss of Rep. Sylvester Turner, who served with distinction for 27 years in the Texas Hou...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — As Greg Abbott attempts to rebrand his devastatingly unpopular school voucher scam with a new “Texas Two-Step” plan, HB 2 and HB 3, Texans should know the truth: these bills are yet an...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — In response to the release of committee assignments as set by Speaker Burrows, Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu issued the following statement: “Today's committee assignmen...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — In response to Gov. Abbott’s sweeping directive to require “appropriate state agencies” to do the jobs of federal immigration enforcement, Texas House Democrats [sent a formal letter](...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Senate Republicans just passed Senate Bill 2, an expensive, billionaire-backed private school voucher program that would divert taxpayer dollars from public schools to unaccountable pr...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Following Governor Greg Abbott’s State of the State address, Texas House Democrats held a press conference to address the Governor's designated priorities on education and call on him...
Read MoreState Representative Mihaela Pleșa, Vice Chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, delivered the House Democratic Caucus's response to Governor Greg Abbott's State of the State address...
Read MoreTexas House Democratic Chair Rep. Gene Wu issued the following statement amid reports of civil rights violations at immigration raids in Texas and across the nation...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas House Democrats will hold a press conference TODAY in the House Press Room (2W.6) immediately following the adjournment of the House of Representatives to discuss the adoption of...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — The Texas House Democratic Caucus joins millions of Americans in mourning the loss of Cecile Richards. Richards, a reproductive freedom activist and political organizer who followed in...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — The Texas House Democratic Caucus condemns the bigoted and hateful attacks of former Rep. Jonathan Stickland toward Rep. Salman Bhojani. These deplorable statements, coming from a man...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — Democratic leaders across Texas united over the weekend to expose how Republicans have sold out working families to wealthy special interests, while presenting their vision to invest i...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — In response to Rep. Dustin Burrows' election as Texas House Speaker, Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu issued the following statement: “Thanks to a bipartisan coalition of D...
Read MoreAUSTIN, TEXAS — In response to the release of the biennial revenue estimate by Comptroller Glenn Hegar, Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu issued the following statement: “Our state has the...
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