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Texas lawmakers to redraw voting maps
Texas Republicans are poised to redraw the state's congress­ional maps this week, leaving Democratic lawmakers such as ...
Trump wants Texas to redraw its congressional map to pick up more GOP seats. Here's what to know.
Trump said he wants a "simple redrawing" of Texas' congressional map — it would enable Republicans to pick up five seats.
Texas lawmakers begin review of catastrophic floods that killed at least 135
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and county authorities have largely evaded questions about local officials' actions in the hours ...
Texas GOP Lawmakers Lead Summer Sprint to Redraw US House Maps and Address Deadly Floods
Texas Democrats are considering their options to block a Republican-led effort to redraw the state's congressional maps ...
Trump pushes Texas Republicans to redraw congressional maps to help defend GOP's House majority
President Trump and Texas GOP leaders push for mid-decade redistricting to create five new winnable seats, as both parties ...
That scary Texas redistricting map you saw? It was some guy's 'thought experiment.'
For those not in the know, Texas is about to undergo a seismic redistricting process, where state lawmakers will get together ...
As parties battle for control, they turn to a controversial strategy: Redrawing electoral maps
While both map-drawing has often been done in private, it's now being debated in the open — and making parties susceptible to ...
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Texas leaders have repeatedly claimed the state’s voting maps are race blind. Until the Trump DOJ disagreed.
Gov. Greg Abbott has acknowledged DOJ concerns that some districts were drawn “along strict racial lines.” Critics say it’s a ...
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New Texas voting laws, political maps could once again require federal ...
The federal bill seeks to reinstate sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were written to protect people of color. Texas House Democrats see it as a way to prevent implementing provisions of ...
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Texas voting map that dilutes minority votes allowed by Supreme Court ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed a local Texas election to go forward under a map that a lower court had found diluted the votes of Black and Latino residents.
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Primary election: Early voting begins and Texas' election map is in ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- This is the first election cycle since the passage of Senate Bill 1, which altered several key elements regarding voting and the first under the newly redrawn election ...
'Hell no, not on our watch': Texas Democrat ready to break quorum to block redistricting
Texas Democrats know they have few options to stop Republicans from redrawing the state’s congressional maps exactly as the ...