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Democrats prevent Texas House from moving forward with GOP-friendly congressional map

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t ...

Texas Democratic legislators flee state to protest GOP redistricting plan; Republicans vote on arrest warrants

Texas Democrats fled the state Sunday, aiming to delay a plan to redraw the state's congressional map and give the GOP a ...

Arrest warrants issued for Texas House Democrats breaking quorum to block GOP redistricting vote

Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows issued civil arrest warrants Monday for the more than 50 Democrats who fled Texas to ...

California could slash 5 GOP US House seats to counter Texas’ move to pad Republican margin

California Democrats are weighing new political maps that could slash five Republican-held House seats in the liberal-leaning ...

Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP

The justices split among the familiar ideological lines, with the five conservatives ruling against challenges to partisan ...

Texas Democrat calls Trump a ‘piece of s---’ in fiery speech aimed at ‘complicit’ GOP, Supreme Court

A liberal Texas Democrat referred to President Donald Trump as a “piece of s---” over the weekend while calling for ethics ...

Texas redistricting: Latino voters could be key in Republican effort to pick up seats

Two of those seats are in South Texas, and represented by Democratic Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar, who both ...

California GOP candidate teases plan to 'stop' Newsom's effort to 'steal' congressional seats

California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on former Vice President Kamala Harris declining to run for the California governorship and Gov. Gavin Newsom's idea to redraw California's map if Texas ...