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Texas Democrats Will Return Home, Allowing Vote on Congressional Map

The leader of Democrats in the Texas House said the battle over redistricting, which could determine control of Congress, is ...
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Texas Democrats say they will return to state once session ends, California unveils retaliatory map

In a statement, the House Democratic Caucus said its lawyers had advised returning “to build a strong public legislative ...

Democrats who fled Texas to block the GOP's redistricting effort plot their exit strategy

Lawmakers are now framing their ability to prevent new maps from passing during one special legislative session as a victory.

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 ...

Cory Booker’s message to the Democratic Party: Don’t bend the knee to Trump

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is imploring his party to fight back harder against President Donald Trump, arguing that history ...

Harrison: As Texas and California talk redistricting, there’s no fight in Mississippi

Mississippi most likely will not engage in the redistricting battle because Republicans already have been helped about as ...

Texas Democrats weigh their end game and Trump makes his mark on D.C: From the Politics Desk

Plus, ahead of Friday's summit, Trump threatens “very severe consequences” if Putin doesn’t agree to end the Russia-Ukraine ...

How Texas Republicans want to dismantle Democratic districts

Texas Republicans have proposed a new congressional map for the state, with the goal of flipping five Democratic seats in ...