Republican gerrymandering in Texas, and Democrats' response.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, a group of Democratic lawmakers in Texas left the state to deny the Republican-controlled state House the quorum necessary to vote on a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional seats in the U.S. House next year. In late July, President Donald Trump spearheaded the plan to redraw Texas’s Congressional map, years in advance of the typical decennial redistricting.
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