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Despite risks, Texas Republicans launch Trump-backed effort to redraw congressional lines
Texas Republicans launched a high-risk, high-reward redrawing of the state's 38 congressional districts, a move championed by ...
Texas Republicans, including Gov. Abbott, were reluctant to redraw the state’s congressional maps. Then Trump got involved.
Gov. Greg Abbott was initially resistant to the plan pushed by President Donald Trump’s political team to pick up new GOP ...
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Republican Politicians Looking to Gerrymander Ohio and Texas to Protect U.S. House Majority
Trump won Ohio with 55% of the vote, but Republican politicians want to gerrymander 80% of the state’s U.S. House districts ...
Democrats must counter Texas' redistricting 'cheating,' says Rep. Ritchie Torres
Texas Republicans want to redraw the state's congressional districts to gain an advantage in next year's election. U.S. Rep.
5 things to know about the Texas special session on redistricting
Texas Republicans are using this month’s special session to attempt to lock in the party’s majority in Congress by means of ...
Texas Republicans aim to redraw House districts at Trump’s urging, but there’s a risk
The Texas GOP knows the risk. In the 2010s, the Republican-controlled Legislature drew political lines that helped pad the ...
Texas Republicans plan to rig elections with political maps. How Democrats are fighting back.
Democracy thrives or dies on how we draw political districts, and the prognosis for Texas is not good. Gov. Greg Abbott ...
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The Texas Republican Party platform is official. What it says. | Fort ...
The Texas Republican Party rejected the results of the 2020 election, labeled being gay as “abnormal” and vowed to protect access to guns in its platform and corresponding resolutions.
Texas lawmakers review catastrophic floods but say they aren’t out to assign blame
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A review by Texas lawmakers into the catastrophic July 4 floods has no intention of second-guessing ...
These Democrats could be targeted in the GOP's Texas redistricting push
Districts in Houston, Austin, Dallas and South Texas could be part of the push to create up to five new Republican seats in ...
GOP gerrymandering in Texas would only invite more partisan warfare
The partisan breakdown of the chamber today resembles the popular vote more closely than it has in decades: Republicans, who ...