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Texas Republicans approve Trump-backed congressional map to protect party's majority

Texas legislators on Wednesday passed a new state congressional map drawn at the behest of President Donald Trump to ...

Texas House passes Trump redistricting plan, setting up face-off with California

The new map, ordered up by President Donald Trump and endorsed by Gov. Greg Abbott, would wipe out five Democrat-held congressional districts ...

Obama calls Newsom’s redistricting plan ‘a responsible approach’ in response to Texas Republicans redrawing maps

Former President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he supported a proposal by California Democrats to redraw congressional lines ...
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Texas House, Senate panels again advance redrawn congressional map

A second special session that has made approving the map a priority started Friday, shortly after the first one ended.

What NY and other states are doing in the battle over congressional maps

A partisan move by Texas to redraw its congressional maps in the middle of the decade to secure five more GOP seats in the U.S. House set off a clamor to replicate the effort in statehouses controlled ...
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See first draft of California's new congressional district maps that aim squeeze out GOP-held seats

As California pushes to eclipse Texas’ gerrymandering effort to win the House of Representatives at midterm elections, the ...

Democrat lawmaker locked in Texas House chamber after refusing police escort

The Texas House reached a quorum Monday after dozens of Democrats who left the state to block the vote on a GOP-favored ...

More Texas Democrats plan to spend the night in the statehouse in protest amid redistricting fight

A group of Texas Democrats are returning to the state House in Austin, where they will spend the night on the statehouse floor — the latest step in broader protest over Republican plans to redraw cong ...