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Texas Democrats leave the state, hope to derail Republicans’ radical redistricting scheme
Ahead of a vote on the GOP’s redistricting gambit, Texas Democrats played their final card: They fled the state to block the ...
The backstory fueling the Texas redistricting bitterness
The backstory between Abbott, who is attempting to bulldoze the new congressional map through his state’s legislature, and ...
Texas Gov. Wants Democrats Who Left State Kicked Out Of Office. Can He Legally Do It?
State officials are using what’s called a “quo warranto” process to ask the Texas Supreme Court to remove Democrats from ...
The Trump-Texas redistricting mess, briefly explained
A political showdown is unfolding in Texas, where state Republican lawmakers are trying to game the system to give their national party an advantage in next year’s midterm elections. They’ve hit a ...
The Origins of the Political Power Grab in Texas
The cutthroat political maneuvering in Texas seemed to begin quietly in June, when President Trump’s political team urged ...
Texas Democrats leave the state to prevent vote on GOP-drawn congressional map
Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday in a desperate bid to block an aggressively partisan redrawing of the state’s ...
Texas Democrats defy Gov. Abbott's redistricting ultimatum, and threats of arrest, to block consideration of new congressional maps
The governor had threatened to kick Democrats out of office after dozens fled the state to prevent new district lines from ...
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GOP gambit to redraw Texas' congressional map shows redistricting is an ongoing fight
"Texas would be the biggest one, and that will be five." The GOP gambit in Texas has prompted some Democrats to say ...
Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP
The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and ...