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Texas Republicans pass redistricting map creating 5 new GOP-leaning congressional seats despite Democratic objections about minority voting power dilution.
The Texas legislature's lower chamber has passed a contentious new electoral map that aims to help Donald Trump's Republican Party retain its razor-thin US House majority in the 2026 midterm elections ...
The former president lent his support to Gavin Newsom's retaliatory redistricting plan shortly before Texas Republicans passed a bill redrawing congressional lines.
The new map, ordered up by President Donald Trump and endorsed by Gov. Greg Abbott, would wipe out five Democrat-held congressional districts ...
Texas Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier abruptly left a call with California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other party members after she was told she was committing a felony.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court’s order that had kept in place temporary protections ...
Donald Trump hailed Texas redistricting as a win. The bill could give Republicans five more seats. Democrats protested, alleging voter rights violatio ...
Chief among lawmakers’ tasks is plugging a roughly $750 million hole in the state budget caused by the Republican federal tax and spending bill. But there’s plenty more on the docket.