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GOP HOUSE CAUCUS SHRINKS, LOSING BLACK REPRESENTATION AMID REDISTRICTING
All four Black Republican House members are leaving Congress, effectively removing the party's Black representation. This follows Texas redistricting and broader party shifts.
#GOP #HouseOfRepresentatives #BlackRepresentation #TexasRedistricting #USPolitics
https://newsletter.tf/black-republican-house-members-leave-congress/
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All four Black Republican representatives in the House are leaving, which erases the party's Black representation in Congress. This is a significant shift for the GOP.
#GOP #HouseOfRepresentatives #BlackRepresentation #TexasRedistricting #USPolitics
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More than four years after Spring Branch ISD was sued over how its trustees are elected, the lawsuit hinges on a high-profile U.S. Supreme Court case that could have wide-ranging implications.
#Court #Education #EducationNews #Houston #Local #News #SupremeCourt #Voting #SpringBranchISD #SpringBranchSchoolBoard #TexasRedistricting #USSouthernDistrictCourtOfTexas #USSupremeCourt #VotingRightsActOf1965
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The system created by Tom Hofeller has helped Republicans and Democrats embrace partisan gerrymandering. Now that foundation is leading states into a battle to win the U.S. House.
#News #Politics #Texas #CongressionalRedistricting #KUT #REDISTRICTING #TexasRedistricting #TomHofeller
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The NAACP joined an ongoing federal lawsuit on Tuesday against Texas over its newly approved congressional maps, alleging state lawmakers deliberately diluted the political power of Black voters ahead of next year's elections.
#News #Politics #LeagueOfUnitedLatinAmericanCitizens #Naacp #TexasRedistricting
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U.S. Rep. Al Green, a Houston Democrat who recently was drawn out of the congressional district he has represented since 2005, expressed his intention to run next year for the seat in the newly redrawn 18th Congressional District.
#Houston #Local #News #Politics #18thCongressionalDistrict #9thCongressionalDistrict #CaliforniaRedistricting #PresidentDonaldTrump #TexasRedistricting #USRepAlGreen
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Hours after the Texas Senate approved a new congressional map early Saturday morning that more heavily favors Republicans, a lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott was filed, alleging that the redrawn districts are racially discriminatory.
#Court #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #CongressionalRedistricting #GovGregAbbott #LULAC #TexasLegislature2025 #TexasRedistricting #VotingRightsAct
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California and Texas, the country's two most populous states, are getting closer to redrawing their congressional districts in a political fight sparked by President Trump.
#National #News #Politics #Texas #CaliforniaRedistricting #CongressionalRedistricting #PresidentDonaldTrump #TexasLegislature #TexasRedistricting #USHouseOfRepresentatives
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The Texas House passed its proposed congressional redistricting map Wednesday on a vote of 88-52. The final, procedural vote is underway. Next, the map will head to the state Senate for consideration.
#News #Politics #Texas #Voting #CongressionalRedistricting #REDISTRICTING #TexasHouse #TexasRedistricting #VotingRightsAct
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The Texas House on Wednesday will finally debate a new map for the state's congressional districts that could give Republicans as many as five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2026 midterm elections.
#News #Politics #Texas #CongressionalRedistricting #DustinBurrows #KUT #TexasHouse #TexasLegislature #TexasRedistricting
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The congressional seat in Texas’ 18th District, a hub of Black political power, has been vacant for months. Redistricting could further disrupt representation for its voters.
#Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #18thCongressionalDistrict #CongressionalRedistricting #MidDecadeRedistricting #SylvesterTurnerDeath #Texas18thCongressionalDistrict #TexasRedistricting
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The congressional redistricting map now advancing through the Texas House would add Liberty County to TX-9, unlike the map under consideration in the Senate. The district has long been represented by Democratic U.S. Rep. Al Green.
#Elections #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #CongressionalRedistricting #CongressmanAlGreen #LibertyCounty #SpecialSession #Texas9thCongressionalDistrict #TexasRedistricting
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released his second special session proclamation moments after the state legislature officially called its first special session to a close. The governor told lawmakers to begin work Friday afternoon.
#News #Politics #Texas #CongressionalRedistricting #QuorumBreak #SpecialSession #TexasGovernorGregAbbott #TexasLegislature #TexasRedistricting
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President Trump sparked a national sprint to redistrict when he asked Texas Republicans to draw five more congressional seats for the GOP in their state ahead of next year's elections.
#Elections #National #News #Politics #Texas #2026Election #CongressionalRedistricting #MidtermElection #PresidentDonaldTrump #TexasRedistricting
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In a Houston neighborhood near the city’s port, residents worry their problems — and their votes — will be unheard if Texas state lawmakers go ahead with a mid-decade congressional redistricting plan.
#Elections #Environment #EnvironmentalJustice #Healthcare #Houston #Immigration #InDepth #Local #National #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #CongressionalRedistricting #DenverHarbor #Gerrymandering #PresidentDonaldTrump #SpecialSession #TexasRedistricting
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Texas Republicans will again try to convene the state Legislature for a vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party's favor, an effort that already sparked a national political brawl and prompted Democratic lawmakers to leave the state.
#News #Politics #Texas #CongressionalRedistricting #GovGregAbbott #SpecialSession #TexasLegislature #TexasRedistricting
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and House Speaker Dustin Burrows are asking an Illinois court to enforce arrest warrants against Democratic lawmakers who have left the state to delay passage of a GOP-backed congressional map.
#Court #News #Politics #Texas #AttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #HouseSpeakerDustinBurrows #QuorumBreak #TexasHouseDemocrats #TexasRedistricting
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Republican state lawmakers argue their proposed redistricting map would create Latino opportunity districts. But a Democratic state rep says the map is drawn to leave Black and Latino residents with a fraction of the voting power of whites.
#CivilRights #Elections #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #BlackVoters #CongressionalRedistricting #LatinoVoters #RacialDiscrimination #StateRepresentativeVincePerez #TexasRedistricting
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At least a dozen members of Congress of both political parties are sponsoring multiple bills that would ban mid-decade congressional redistricting. But the prospects of such legislation passing in the current Republican-led Congress are bleak.
#Elections #National #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #Congress #CongressionalRedistricting #CongresswomanLizzieFletcher #Gerrymandering #TexasRedistricting #USHouseOfRepresentatives
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The Texas Supreme Court said in 2021 the Constitution allows members to thwart legislation by leaving the state. Gov. Greg Abbott wants them to reconsider.
#Court #News #Politics #Texas #AttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #GeneWu #GovGregAbbott #QuorumBreak #TexasRedistricting #TexasSupremeCourt
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As Democrats and Republicans spar about redrawing Texas' congressional districts ahead of the midterm election, a state senator from the Houston area is being accused of racism over a post on X about a fellow lawmaker who fled the state.
#Galveston #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #QuorumBreak #SenMayesMiddleton #TexasHouseDemocraticCaucus #TexasHouseRepresentativeGeneWu #TexasLegislature #TexasRedistricting
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Dozens of Texas Democrats left the state to protest a redistricting map, facing potentially steep consequences. Lawmaker walkouts have had mixed success in the past — so what is there to gain?
#National #News #Politics #Texas #QuorumBreak #StateLegislatures #TexasGov #TexasPolitics #TexasRedistricting #Walkout
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A bill that would dramatically redraw Texas’ congressional maps has advanced in the GOP-led House of Representatives, increasing the chances that Democrats will break quorum to deny Republicans the minimum number of legislators needed for the House to function.
#CivilRights #Elections #National #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #2025TexasLegislature #CongressionalRedistricting #QuorumBreak #SpecialSession #TexasRedistricting #VotingRightsActOf1965
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The proposed map targets districts dominated by coalitions of Latino and Black voters, with a focus on districts in the Rio Grande Valley, the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and Central Texas. Houston Democrats would also see their districts shuffled.
#Elections #International #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #2025TexasLegislature #Congress #RacialDiscrimination #SpecialSession #TexasRedistricting
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The University of Houston hosted a hearing of the Texas House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting on Saturday. Almost all of the candidates running for TX-18, vacant since Rep. Sylvester Turner's death in March, urged the committee not to redraw the boundaries.
#CivilRights #Elections #InDepth #National #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #18thCongressionalDistrict #2025TexasLegislature #GovernorGregAbbott #RacialDiscrimination #SpecialSession #TexasRedistricting
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Hundreds gather at Texas state capitol to debate redistricting, as lawmakers face criticism over proposed changes to congressional maps 🗳️👥 #TexasRedistricting #USPolitics
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Texas state representatives will convene at the University of Houston Saturday to hear public comments on plans to redraw congressional maps mid-decade.
#Elections #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #2025TexasLegislature #Congress #MidtermElections #PresidentDonaldTrump #SpecialSession #TexasRedistricting
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Gov. Greg Abbott was initially resistant to the plan pushed by President Donald Trump’s political team to pick up new GOP seats through a rare mid-decade redistricting, according to two people who have spoken to Abbott and the White House about the behind-the-scenes discussions.
#Local #News #Politics #GovGregAbbott #PresidentDonaldTrump #TexasAttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #TexasRedistricting #TexasTribune
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Democratic lawmakers at the state capital on Monday said they are keeping all options on the table to stop Republican leaders from advancing their special session redistricting agenda, along with other legislative bills they say are harmful to the average Texan.
#Local #News #Politics #2025TexasLegislature #Congress #Elections #GovernorGregAbbott #National #PresidentDonaldTrump #SpecialSession #Texas #TexasRedistricting #Voting
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President Donald Trump is seeking to pick up at least four, potentially five, Texas congressional seats for Republicans in a midterm election cycle that ordinarily would favor the Democrats.
#Elections #InDepth #National #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #2025TexasLegislature #Congress #GovernorGregAbbott #PresidentDonaldTrump #SpecialSession #TexasRedistricting