The Texas Senate gave final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map early Saturday, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.
President Donald Trump has pushed for the map to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. It has five new districts that would favor Republicans.
Abbott, a Republican, is expected to quickly sign it into law, though Democrats have vowed to challenge it in court.
The effort by Trump and Texas’ Republican-majority Legislature prompted state Democrats to hold a two-week walkout and kicked off a wave of redistricting efforts across the country.
I’d laugh at how absurd this whole thing is, if it wasn’t so decadent…
Thanks for sharing
My pleasure. It’s a big disappointment to me that with a story this consequential and as many news outlets as we have, that people really have to search out stuff this basic. The pictures make it instantly clear what is going on and why.
I am also concerned with migrant detention being used to do what is known as prison gerrymandering, especially with Trump trying to hold a mid decade census which has never been done. I see no other reason to do such an undertaking while cutting aid.