Democratic Texas Rep. Gene Wu surrounded by other Texas House Democrats and Democratic members of Congress. (Nam Y. Huh/AP) The Texas House of Representatives had enough members present Monday morning ...

The Supreme Court’s decision to let Texas use its contested congressional maps in the 2026 elections landed with a thud in ...

The Texas Legislature redrew the state's congressional districts after a bitter, partisan battle. Republicans undertook the rare, mid-decade redistricting in hopes of picking up five additional ...

I represent the people of El Paso, Texas in the state legislature, a west Texas district that is a 14-hour drive away from the Louisiana border. Yet, data from the Texas Legislative Council indicates ...

When Texas Republican lawmakers redrew the state's congressional districts at the behest of President Trump this summer, neither they, nor the president, left any question about what motivated them.

Austin, Texas — Texas Republicans were unable again Monday to approve new congressional districts to meet President Donald Trump's demands as California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats urged ...

Texas Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, right, huddles with other democrat senators and staff members to fight against a bill on a redrawn U.S. congressional map during a special session in the Senate ...

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Republican Congressional Rep. Beth Van Duyne, left, Democrat Congressional Rep. Julie Johnson, center, and Republican Congressional Rep. Brandon Gill discussed redistricting at a recent Dallas ...

A federal court Tuesday struck down the new Republican congressional map of Texas that aimed to flip up to five Democratic seats, ruling that the new districts amount to illegal racial gerrymandering ...