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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.

CBS News · 5h

Fight intensifies over Texas' redrawn congressional maps

The Texas House reconvened Tuesday afternoon in Austin after Democratic lawmakers fled the state in an effort to block a redistricting vote. Democratic lawmakers were not in attendance, making it the second day in a row the House hasn't met a quorum.

Texas, Houston

Chron on MSN · 17h

Texas governor asks court to remove Houston rep from office over breaking quorum

Greg Abbott has raised the stakes in a heightening political showdown-calling for the removal of Texas Rep. Gene Wu (D- Houston) from office. Wu was one of dozens Democratic lawmakers who fled the state last week to halt a vote on proposed redistricting measures.

Houston Chronicle on MSN · 18h

Greg Abbott sues to remove Houston lawmaker for leading redistricting quorum break

The lawsuit alleges Gene Wu forfeited his office when he led the Democratic House caucus in fleeing the state over redistricting.

FOX 7 Austin on MSN · 11h

Texas redistricting: Political stakes increase in day two of Democrat quorum break

For the second day, there weren't enough lawmakers in the Texas House to debate a congressional redistricting map. As state Democrats continue with their holdout, there's now a hard deadline that could result in their removal from office.

Texas, Republicans and House

ABC News on MSN · 22h

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 · 16h

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 · 19h

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.

KERA News1h

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 ...

Click2Houston37m

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 ...

18mOpinion

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 ...

6hon MSNOpinion

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 ...

16hon MSN

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, ...

19h

Texas Republicans could have a hard time enforcing threats against Democrats who left

Dozens of Texas Democrats had barely left the state to stall a vote on a redrawn congressional map when Republicans started ...

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