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Texas Legislature to take another swing at redistricting vote as Democrats extend their walkout

Texas Republicans are trying to reconvene the state Legislature to vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party’s ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blasts Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Trump over GOP redistricting efforts

Last week, Pritzker appeared alongside Texas Democrats who fled their state in protest of the proposed new congressional maps ...

Texas House set to reconvene as redistricting standoff enters its second week

Members of the Texas House of Representatives will attempt once again to meet a quorum Monday, more than a week into a ...

Texas House set to reconvene

From New York to California, Illinois, Florida and Maryland, nine states have joined Texas’s fight to redraw congressional ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott moves to amp up the pressure on Democrats who fled in redistricting standoff

More than 50 Texas Democratic legislators left the state to block a GOP effort to redraw congressional lines. Abbott said ...

Republican Party of Texas sets stage to censure members who stepped out of line in likely bid to block them from primary ballot

The executive committee of the Republican Party of Texas was in Austin on Saturday to finalize its first-ever legislative ...

Texas Gov. Abbott claims FBI is going to search for Texas House Democrats

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott claimed that he had heard that the FBI will search for Texas House Democrats who left the state ...

Greg Abbott Fact-Checks Jasmine Crockett’s ‘Racist’ Redistricting Claims

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas mocked Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s argument that the state’s redistricting ...