Overview

• The proposed map would merge Austin’s two Democratic-held seats by placing Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett in the reconfigured 37th District.
• Doggett said he will not seek reelection in the new 37th if the courts allow the Republican map to stand.
• Texas Republicans passed the congressional map and sent it to Gov. Greg Abbott, and lawsuits challenging the plan for alleged racial discrimination are already underway.
• Casar’s campaign says the redrawn 37th includes his home, roughly 250,000 of his current constituents, and the area he once represented on the Austin City Council.
• Casar, 36 and chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, launched with a video and a slate of endorsements from Texas Democrats.