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Redistricting showdown returns to the Texas Legislature floor

The redistricting fight returned to the Texas House. Lawmakers wasted no time pressing each other on the details.

Texas GOP nears vote on new maps as Democrats stage protest in state House

Texas Republicans are moving closer to approving new congressional maps amid a Democratic show of protest over the GOP House ...

How Texas Republicans are punishing statehouse Democrats who fled the state

Democrats said Republicans in the Texas House crossed a line by detaining them en masse and then assigning state troopers to ...

Texas lawmaker prepares for second night of redistricting protest in state Capitol

After Democrats returned to the Texas statehouse, Republican leadership assigned law enforcement officers to monitor them to ...

Police escort Texas Democrats to prevent new redistricting walkout as California moves to retaliate

Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public ...

Newsom-style redistricting efforts critiqued by California Democrats as recently as July, statements show

Republicans highlight California Democrats' past statements supporting independent redistricting as Newsom pushes mid-decade redistricting ballot initiative ...

California Republicans targeted by redistricting slam effort as ‘naked politics'

"Voters decided to give redistricting powers to the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission and take it away from ...

Texas Democrats return as Rep. Nicole Collier spends night on House floor in protest

Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives returned to Austin on Aug. 18, 2025, but their protest of redistricting ...