Texas House takes up redistricting map
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Trump and his allies are pushing their redistricting efforts with many of the same strategies they’ve used to get Congress in line.
California Democrats are poised to pass a contentious redistricting effort on Thursday in the latest escalation to a national back and forth that could prove critical in which party is able to win the U.S. House in next year's midterm elections.
The Texas House voted 88-52 along party lines on Wednesday to pass the map that Republicans say will strengthen their slim majority in Washington ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Democrats
California state Democrats are pushing new redistricting efforts as a new Trump-backed congressional map makes its way through the Texas legislature.
Several board members of California Common Cause have resigned as the state's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, pushes to redraw California's congressional map to counter Republicans' redistricting efforts in Texas.
The former president suggested that Democrats opposing G.O.P. efforts in Texas and elsewhere should advance their own gerrymandering plans.
While Gov. Greg Abbott blasted through a Democratic blockade and advanced a new congressional map, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is eying a new map in his state.
California Democrats' ability to do so may hinge on the outcome of a ballot measure Newsom announced last week that would allow a new map drafted by legislators to temporarily replace the boundaries drawn up by the state's independent redistricting committee following the 2020 census.