Most Texas House Democrats remain out of the state, depriving the Legislature of its ability to pass new congressional maps and other GOP priorities.

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

Democratic lawmakers in Texas left the state to deny Republicans the quorum needed to redraw the state's 38 congressional districts.

American democracy is “hanging by a thread”, US representative Jasmine Crockett has warned. As her fellow Democrats fled Texas in an effort to prevent Republicans approving a new congressional map, which is likely to give them more seats in the US congress,