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Texas, Democrats and redistricting efforts

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.

Sky News Australia on MSN · 13h

Texas Democrats ‘freak out’ and ‘run away’ amid battle over state’s redistricting efforts

Democratic state lawmakers from Texas are remaining in blue states in order to delay redistricting efforts by Republicans.

Yahoo News Australia · 6h

What to expect next in Texas’ redistricting standoff and whether Democrats can be expelled

Most Democrats who left the state to stop the redistricting effort are showing no signs they will come back to Texas. Republicans are escalating their threats, with Gov. Greg Abbott going to court to request the removal of a Houston lawmaker from office.

Texas, Donald Trump and House

The Australian · 1d

Trump’s Texas gambit ignites nationwide battle for House control

President Trump’s high-stakes push to create more Republican House seats and keep the majority from flipping to Democrats has erupted into a cross-country fight, prompting the exodus of Democratic state lawmakers from Texas and leading blue-state governors to hatch their own plans.

Yahoo · 17h

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, triggering an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting arms race with the balance of power in Washington at stake.

Yahoo News Australia · 23h

Trump says GOP ‘entitled’ to 5 more House seats in Texas

President Trump argued Republicans are “entitled” to pick up five additional House seats in Texas as state GOP officials try to advance a new congressional district map ahead of next year’s midterms.

9mon MSN

Obama calls Texas GOP's redistricting plan a 'power grab that undermines our democracy'

Barack Obama called Texas Republicans' push to add five new Republican congressional seats "a power grab that undermines our ...

3hon MSN

The Democratic governors countering Texas redistricting and federal cuts to vaccine research: Morning Rundown

Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul to counter GOP redistricting in Texas. Ghislaine Maxwell's prison transfer. RFK Jr. vaccine ...

ABC7 KABC19m

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

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott urged the Texas Supreme Court to remove state Rep. Gene Wu, chair of the Texas House Democratic ...

Mediaite on MSN8m

JUST IN: Texas Democrats Protesting Gerrymander Evacuate Chicago Hotel After Bomb Threat

Texas Democrats protesting GOP redistricting in their home state were forced to evacuate a Chicago hotel early Wednesday ...

2don MSN

Democrats flee Texas to block Republican redistricting map backed by Trump

The proposed redistricting - unveiled by Texas's majority Republicans last week and backed by President Donald Trump - would ...

1don MSN

Texas Democratic legislators flee state to protest GOP redistricting plan; Republicans vote on arrest warrants

Texas Democrats fled the state Sunday, aiming to delay a plan to redraw the state's congressional map and give the GOP a ...

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Texas Democrats who fled to Illinois faced bomb threat, police say

Four hundred people were evacuated from the hotel where they were staying, but they were allowed to eventually return.

6hon MSN

Texas state Democrat apologizes for comparing GOP redistricting plan to the Holocaust

Democratic Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones invoked the Holocaust while discussing state Democrats like herself fleeing the state to avoid a vote on redistricting.

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Texas Democrat compares Holocaust to GOP redistricting plan

Democratic Texas state Rep. Jolanda Jones used extreme language in defending Democrats' decision to flee the state to avoid a ...

DNC Chair talks Dems retaliation strategy over GOP's redistricting push in Texas

Democrats are drawing up plans to retaliate if Republicans gerrymander Texas, which could help them gain five more seats in ...

GOP congressman vows 'all options are on the table' to stop US-wide redistricting war

Rep. Kevin Kiley introduced a bill to block states from redrawing congressional maps before the 2030 census, as California and Texas lead states threatening mid-decade redistricting efforts.

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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 ...

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