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DNC chair sounds alarm on Texas redistricting fight

How the Texas redistricting fight is spilling over to other states

Here's how Texas Republicans' plans to redraw its congressional map mushroomed into a multi-state standoff over the past week.

The New York Times · 2d

The Texas Redistricting Fight, Explained

Here is why Democrats in the Texas House left the state, why Republicans in the Legislature want to redraw political maps and why other states are involved.

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 15h

The Texas redistricting fight spurring a legislative standoff: What you need to know

Texas Republicans are trying to redraw congressional districts to pick up five additional U.S. House seats. Democrats face financial and political risk in their bid to block the GOP plan.

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ABC News on MSN · 23h

Texas redistricting: What's at stake as Republicans aim to pick up 5 House seats

President Donald Trump claimed Republicans are "entitled to five more seats" in Texas, where a redistricting battle is playing out among state lawmakers.

The Washington Post on MSN · 17h

Trump says Republicans are ‘entitled’ to 5 more seats in Texas redistricting

President Donald Trump said Republicans deserve to redraw the Texas electoral map. “I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know. And we are entitled to five more seats,” he said Tuesday in an interview with CNBC.

USA Today · 21h

See how Texas redistricting maps could gain Trump more Republican seats in the House

Trump would benefit from more Texas Republicans in the House for the 2026 midterm election. Texas' redistricting plan could give him what he wants.

Texas redistricting battle escalates

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Houston Chronicle on MSN · 7h

Texas Democrats fleeing Trump’s redistricting didn’t abandon us. Gov. Greg Abbott did.

Gov. Greg Abbott is suing to remove state Rep. Gene Wu from office for leading a Democrat walkout over Trump's redistricting plan. But Texans know who really abandoned us.

CBS News on MSN · 15h

Texas Gov. Abbott sues to remove alleged "ringleader" of Democratic walkout from office amid redistricting showdown

Abbott filed an emergency petition with the Texas Supreme Court to have Rep. Gene Wu, D-Houston, the Democratic Caucus Chair, removed from office.

ABC News on MSN · 3h

Texas redistricting battle escalates as Abbott asks court to remove top Democrat

The redistricting battle in Texas continues to escalate as Republican Gov. Greg Abbott urged the state Supreme Court to remove state Rep. Gene Wu, the chairman of the Texas House Democratic caucus. Abbott argued that Wu has "forfeited" his office by fleeing the state along with other Democratic lawmakers to prevent the quorum necessary for Texas House to vote on enacting the new GOP-proposed congressional map -- with Republican control of the U.

FOX 26 Houston on MSN7m

Rep. Jolanda Jones apologizes for comparing Texas redistricting plan to Holocaust

Texas state Rep. Jolanda Jones apologized on Tuesday for comparing a plan to redraw the state's congressional maps to the ...

KERA News2h

Texas House Democrats evacuated from Illinois hotel after bomb threat

The lawmakers are among the group that fled the state to prevent a Republican-backed redistricting plan from coming to a vote ...

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Trump-led Texas redistricting gambit ignites national arms race to control Congress

The escalating political fight over the Texas congressional map is spreading across other states across the country, ...

FOX 26 Houston on MSN14h

Texas redistricting: A look at the process and requirements

Texas politicians and political activists are waging a battle over mid-decade congressional redistricting to benefit the ...

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Commentary: Hochul calls Texas redistricting a 'legal insurrection'

Since Donald Trump’s rise, Republicans have declared war on the American people. They slashed health care, gutted nutrition ...

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Denying quorum has been a Texas political strategy since 1870

While the Democrats could technically derail the GOP’s redistricting map, such efforts have been largely symbolic and had ...

Arrest warrants issued for Texas House Democrats breaking quorum to block GOP redistricting vote

Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows issued civil arrest warrants Monday for the more than 50 Democrats who fled Texas to ...

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