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Texas House approves GOP congressional map after two-week delay from Democrats’ walkout
The Republican-led Texas House on Wednesday approved a new congressional map crafted to hand five additional U.S. House seats to the GOP over fierce opposition from Democrats, who cast the plan as a ...

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Texas House approves new congressional maps that favor Republicans in 2026 midterms
Texas’ Republican-controlled House approves new maps to create more winnable GOP congressional seats
Texas Democrats Prepare Final Show of Resistance Against Republican-Backed Redrawn Maps
California lawmakers voted mostly along party lines Thursday to approve legislation calling for a special election in November to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win fiv...

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Texas redistricting fight shakes up battle lines for both parties in key US Senate race
GOP redistricting plan heads to Greg Abbott after Texas Senate thwarts filibuster
A spokesperson for state Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin, said she had compiled 12 hours of remarks on the new map from people across Texas and that she plans to read them aloud while questioning Alvar...

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Federal Judge Rules Alabama Senate District Violates Voting Rights Act, Orders New Map
Texas nears final vote on new congressional maps as partisan redistricting race escalates

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Texas Senate set to vote on GOP redistricting plan that sparked weekslong House standoff
The Texas Senate is debating the controversial GOP redistricting bill that triggered a weekslong House standoff. The Republican-backed proposal, which passed the House in an 88-52 party-line vote on Wednesday, aims to redraw the state's congressional map and produce five new GOP-leaning districts.

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Texas Legislators Approve GOP Redistricting Requested by Trump
Exclusive: Gene Wu, Democratic leaders discuss GOP-run redistricting beyond Texas
Texas House passes GOP-drawn congressional maps, sending bill to Senate for final approval
Texas Republicans are moving closer to approving new congressional maps amid a Democratic show of protest over the GOP House speaker’s order that members who fled the state weeks earlier be placed un...

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California lawmakers swiftly pass Democrats' redistricting plan
Texas Senate Advances Redistricting as California Legislature Joins Race
Texas House Approves Redistricting Map, Just as Trump Wanted
The redrawing of Texas’ map was only the first battle in what is likely to be a bruising and protracted coast-to-coast clash over redistricting between states led by Republicans and those led by Demo...

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Texas Redistricting Fight Shakes up Battle Lines for Both Parties in Key US Senate Race
What to know about the legal battles over redistricting in Texas and California
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Two more candidates announce campaign for Texas House District 71

Two more candidates have announced their campaign for Texas House of Representatives District 71. Taylor County rancher Liz Case and former Abilene city councilmember and businessman Jay Hardaway went public with their campaigns Friday morning,

Texas is gerrymandering the only LGBTQ+ member of Congress from the South out of her seat

Texas Republicans' redrawn congressional maps will split up the district of the only out LGBTQ+ representative from the South.

The Latest: Texas House approves new congressional maps that favor GOP in 2026 midterms

The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature is poised to vote soon on a redistricting plan that resulted from prodding by President Donald Trump

Texas lawmaker refuses police escort, spends to night in the House Chamber, complete with props

House Speaker Dustin Burrows said Monday that Democrats who previously left the state could not leave the chamber unless they agreed to having a DPS escort. Collier refused one and must remain in the chamber.

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier slept in House chamber after refusing GOP-mandated permission slip to leave

Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a police escort.

Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett will retire after Texas redistricting unless courts overturn GOP map

Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, the longest-serving member of Texas' congressional delegation, announced Thursday that he will retire instead of run for re-election if new congressional district boundaries aren't rejected in court after state Republicans carved up his Austin-area home district in new maps.
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