Overview

• House GOP committees advanced party-line maps to create five additional congressional districts before Democrats fled the state to deny quorum.
• More than 50 Texas Democrats remain out of state to block the special session, facing threats of fines or arrest for their absence.
• The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and civil rights groups are preparing Section 2 Voting Rights Act lawsuits to challenge the proposed map.
• GOP operatives are publicly outlining a three-pronged plan of partisan gerrymandering, Supreme Court rulings to curb minority-vote protections and a mid-decade Census to win up to 40 seats.
• Advocates cite North Carolina’s 2023 court-enabled redistricting that flipped three seats as a blueprint for securing a durable Republican majority.