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In redistricting clash, Texas GOP flexes power to shut down Democrats' last tool of resistance

Since Democratic lawmakers left Texas to delay Republicans’ new map, state leaders have challenged the limits of traditional ...

What is redistricting? What to know in Tennessee amid Trump-led effort in Texas

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called for the arrest of Democrats who fled the state amid Trump’s redistricting push. Here’s how ...

Texas governor preparing to call second special session on redistricting by Friday

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is preparing to call a second special session to address redistricting if a quorum is not met in the ...

Jeffries slams Texas GOP for trying to use FBI as 'political pawns'

The Texas redistricting fight is stretching into a second week as Democrats remain out of state to block a GOP map. On ...

Texas Republicans plan another special session to deliver Trump more GOP congressional seats

If Democrats are still absent the Texas House speaker said Republicans will end the current session and Governor Greg Abbott ...

DNC to help lead nationwide protests against Republican redistricting plans

The Democratic National Committee and more than three dozen groups are planning events across 20 states on Saturday, ...

Texas Gov. Abbott decries ‘runaway Democrats’ as redistricting standoff enters its second week

Democratic lawmakers in Texas once again thwarted the Republican redistricting effort in the state when the Texas House of ...

Dems suggest GOP redistricting has forced them to play partisan politics, Republicans argue nothing's changed

Democrats say GOP redistricting efforts are forcing them into partisan retaliation, but Republicans argue that partisan map drawing has always been part of the Democrats' game plan.

Bernie Sanders slams Texas GOP redistricting plans as ‘pathetic,’ urges Democrats to ‘fight back’

Senator Bernie Sanders, a longtime opponent of gerrymandering who called Texas Republicans’ redistricting plans “pathetic,” ...