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Texas House Democrats declare victory as they announce return to Legislature
Texas House Democrats were declaring victory Monday as they were set to return to Austin and begin work anew on a partisan redistricting of the state’s congressional seats.

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What to know about redistricting fights as Texas Democrats return and California starts work
Texas legislature likely to advance new congressional maps after Democrats return to make quorum
Texas Democrats end walkout as Republicans try to pass redrawn map
Democratic lawmakers in Texas returned to the state on Monday, ending a walkout that broke quorum and blocked Republican efforts to redraw congressional maps at the behest of U.S. President Donald Tr...

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Texas Democrats End Walkout, Allowing Redrawn Map to Pass
Texas Democrats say they're ending a two-week walkout over gerrymandered US House map plan
Democrats Get Police Escorts to Prevent a New Redistricting Walkout as California Moves to Retaliate
In response, California Democrats are also moving ahead with their own reshaping of congressional districts to counteract Texas, putting in motion a potentially widening and unusually timed redistric...

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Texas Democrats to return, redistricting debate to continue
A look at Texas' redistricting walkout and California's response, by the numbers
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Texas Senate quickly passes several bills on second special session’s first day

Lawmakers focused first on flood-related bills Monday night and tackled other legislation including a THC ban, property taxes and deed fraud.

Texas Democrat locked inside Capitol after refusing to sign slip for mandatory escort

Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because she wouldn't sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

San Antonio Rep. Ray Lopez won't seek reelection to Texas Legislature

The news came as Lopez and dozens of fellow Democrats returned to the House floor after a two-week quorum break to block GOP redistricting.

Texas legislature working to get flood sirens, disaster relief back on track in second session

Texas counties need key funding bills to recover from flooding damage and build siren systems. Where are those bills right now?
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Texas Senate panel again advances redrawn congressional maps

A second special session that has made approving the map a priority started Friday, as soon as the first one ended.

Texas Senate panel advances congressional map that shifts five seats to GOP’s favor

The Texas Senate could move the GOP’s redistricting plan forward in the next few days after the redistricting panel advanced the map on Sunday afternoon.

Redistricting map heads back to Texas Senate amid public opposition

The proposed redistricting map is set to return to the Texas Senate floor, despite significant public opposition.
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Texas Senate advances THC ban on first day of new special session

SAN ANTONIO – The state senate has already pushed another THC ban attempt past its first legislative hurdle, after Gov. Greg Abbott called a second special session Friday.

Democrat Colin Allred calls Texas redistricting destructive, criticizes Cornyn FBI request

Democratic senatorial candidate Colin Allred says GOP maps weaken minority voices and faults U.S. Sen. John Cornyn for seeking FBI aid.
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