Texas Democrats end walkout over redistricting
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Democratic voters loathe partisan redistricting, but support California doing it to counter Texas, according to a new national poll on Gavin Newsom’s high-stakes gerrymander.
Shortly after the Texas House passed the maps, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted "It's on" on social media. When Texas first launched its redistricting effort, Newsom had vowed to redraw the Golden State's congressional districts to counter ...
The national redistricting battle enters its next phase Thursday as California Democrats are scheduled to pass a new congressional map that creates five winnable seats for their party, a direct counter to the Texas House’s approval of a new map to create more conservative-leaning seats in that state.
A Fort Worth lawmaker’s sit-in on the Texas House floor attracted fellow Democrats to her side at the Capitol on Tuesday as her protest of congressional redistricting entered its second day. Twenty-four hours earlier,
Texas Rep. Nicole Collier protested GOP redistricting and DPS monitoring by spending a night at the state Capitol.