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Trump's Texas fight is aimed at giving the GOP an advantage in 2026 and a lame-duck president more power while in office. Democrats have other plans.
The gambit has triggered a national redistricting war, as governors from both major parties threaten to initiate similar efforts in other states.
Former President Barack Obama waded in to support California Democrats tit-for-tat efforts to more extremely gerrymander the ...
With the GOP-driven redrawing of congressional boundaries about to become law, Texas Democrats move to the next stage of ...
The vote overcame weeks of protests from House Democrats who fled the state to stall a vote on the mid-cycle redistricting.
Republicans’ unusual mid-decade redistricting plan follows push from President Donald Trump to protect the GOP’s slim majority in the U.S. House ...
Texas' Republican-led legislature is expected to approve new congressional maps that add five new House seats that the GOP ...
The potential court challenge would argue HB 4 amounts to unconstitutional gerrymandering, silencing minority and Democratic ...
A Texas House Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers who participated in a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade ...
The Capitol grounds were cleared after 7 p.m. as a demonstration against a GOP redistricting plan was about to begin. Texas ...
After House Democrats absconded for more than two weeks in opposition to a Congressional redistricting bill, the Texas House ...
The standoff began on Monday, when Democratic members returned to the Capitol after being out of the state for more than two ...