Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has directed a select committee to study annexing one or more contiguous counties from New Mexico.

The Texas Legislature redrew the state's congressional districts after a bitter, partisan battle. Republicans undertook the rare, mid-decade redistricting in hopes of picking up five additional ...

I represent the people of El Paso, Texas in the state legislature, a west Texas district that is a 14-hour drive away from the Louisiana border. Yet, data from the Texas Legislative Council indicates ...

Redistricting fever is back in Houston, and this time the targets are Texas’ state House and Senate lines. After a year of ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Texas to use its new congressional map for the 2026 elections. The ruling sides with Gov. Greg Abbott in a challenge claiming the map discriminates against Latino ...

A panel of federal judges in Texas on Tuesday blocked the state’s new GOP-favored House map from being used ahead of the 2026 midterms by declaring it a likely racial gerrymander, dealing a blow to ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House on Wednesday approved redrawn congressional maps that would give Republicans a bigger edge in 2026, muscling through a partisan gerrymander that launched weeks of ...

Empty chairs and desks in the House Chamber at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, US, on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. I represent the people of El Paso, Texas in the state legislature, a west Texas ...