Texas Republicans following the demands of President Trump unveiled a new congressional map this week that could hand the GOP five additional house seats, each drawn in areas Trump carried by double digits.

And the plan is moving quickly after a marathon hearing on Friday, the committee could vote to approve the maps today, setting up a full House vote as early as this Tuesday before it heads

to the Texas State Senate. California Governor Gavin Newsom has already signaled he's prepared

to respond floating a congressional map that could pick up six Democratic House seats if Texas

moves forward. And Texas Democrats are not holding back, calling out the Republicans' blatantly political moves.

This is not a Texas map. It is a Trump map. It was not requested by any Republican or any Democrat in Texas.

It was imposed by President Trump, who has a stranglehold on Congress. And the only question here is whether he also has a stranglehold on this Texas legislature.

The only way that you get here is by making sure that you trample upon the rights and the liberties and the voices of minorities.

What are we doing?

How can we ignore what happened with the Guadalupe? How can we put that off and decide that gerrymandering is more important than taking care of the lives of those people?

The people of Texas are not going to forget this.

They're not going to forget because I'm not going to let them.

The Republicans released their map and Democrats in Texas are going to make sure that the whole

country knows what's happening because this isn't just about Texas.

This is about the entire country and not only the rules of elections, but how Donald

Trump wants to rule the, the, uh,

rig the elections in Texas and, uh, is, is not going to stop there. It's going to continue with

other states so that he can hold on to power and he's going to do so by trampling on the rights

of minorities. Democrats in Texas have all options on the table. We're going to use whatever tool we have in the toolbox to make sure that this doesn't

happen.

And we're going to let everybody in the country know about it.

What are those actual tools that you guys are talking about?

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