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Associated Press News · 2h

Texas House approves new congressional maps that favor Republicans in 2026 midterms

The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives passed Wednesday a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five new winnable GOP seats in Congress.

CNN on MSN · 5h

California state lawmakers voting on series of redistricting measures after Texas House approves new maps

California Democrats are taking a series of votes in a bid to pass a mid-decade redistricting plan, a day after Republicans in the Texas House passed new maps of their own. In California, the state Assembly and Senate are taking up a trio of bills that will allow for a special election to pass a constitutional amendment to replace the state’s existing congressional maps through 2030.

Houston Chronicle on MSN · 13h

Texas House approves GOP congressional map

The vote overcame weeks of protests from House Democrats who fled the state to stall a vote on the mid-cycle redistricting.

Camp Mystic, flood and Texas

Houston Chronicle on MSN · 8h

Texas House passes flood bill requiring youth camp emergency plans

The measure is a response to the dozens of children who died at Camp Mystic and other youth camps in the Texas Hill Country during the July 4 flood.

CNN on MSN · 23h

Parents of girls killed in Texas camp flooding say ‘commonsense’ measures were absent as lawmakers consider safety bill

Texas lawmakers hear gut-wrenching testimony from parents of Camp Mystic flood victims

Parents of some of the more than two dozen girls who died in last month's deadly Texas floods delivered emotional testimony during a state hearing Wednesday where they raised questions about the disaster.

Texas, Democrats and Capitol

Democratic Texas lawmaker passes 24-hour mark on state House floor after refusing GOP demand for law enforcement escort

Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier has now spent over 24 hours on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety.

HuffPost on MSN · 1d

More Texas Democrats Spent The Night At The State Capitol In Protest

More Texas House Democrats spent the night at the state Capitol in Austin in support of Rep. Nicole Collier, who wasn’t allowed to leave the building after she refused to consent to a police escort. Texas House Republican leaders would only allow Democratic lawmakers to return to their homes if they signed waivers allowing law enforcement to shadow them until a vote on redistricting Wednesday.

More Texas Democrats spend the night in the state Capitol to protest police escorts

A handful of Texas House Democrats were locked in the state Capitol overnight as a protest against a House rule that required members who fled the state earlier this month to be followed by a police chaperone.

9hon MSN

Texas House voting on bills addressing deadly Hill Country floods that killed hundreds

Lawmakers in the Texas House will vote on six bills aimed at addressing the Central Texas floods that killed 137 people.

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Democrat Lloyd Doggett won’t seek re-election if courts don’t overturn Texas redistricting

Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett will no longer run for reelection to his seat if Republicans' redrawn House map isn't shot down in ...

The Texas Tribune on MSN8h

Former Speaker Dade Phelan won’t seek reelection to Texas House

As speaker, Phelan oversaw passage of numerous conservative priorities, but he gave up the gavel under pressure from the far ...

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Texas state rep. ‘elated, grateful’ over California's efforts to combat GOP gerrymandering

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) just approved a new redistricting plan in response to Republican gerrymandering in Texas. Texas Rep. Nicole Collier joins The Weeknight with California Assemblymember Rick ...

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