In a split from most of their party, three Texas House Democrats voted for far-right-backed Texas Rep. David Cook in Tuesday's House Speaker race—one of whom was the sole Democratic House Speaker candidate herself.

House Democrats have boycotted the opening day of Minnesota’s 2025 legislative session in an effort to stop Republicans from exploiting a temporary majority to advance their agenda.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Democrat-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Caucus in the Minnesota House of Representatives says it has filed a petition asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to declare that Republicans acted unlawfully when they purported to organize the Minnesota House, elect a Speaker, and took other actions in the absence of a quorum.

Democrats have asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to intervene in a partisan power struggle that has roiled the start of the 2025 legislative session

Minnesota House Democrats and Secretary of State Steve Simon have requested the state’s Supreme Court resolve the power struggle unfolding in the lower chamber. House Republicans and Democrats have been embroiled in a fight over whether the state House GOP has majority rule.