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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A federal court Tuesday struck down the new Republican congressional map of Texas that aimed to flip up to five Democratic seats, ruling that the new districts amount to illegal racial gerrymandering ...

Republicans grabbed back the edge in the nationwide redistricting wars as the conservative-led Supreme Court has approved a new GOP-friendly Texas map that should help them flip up to five Democratic ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily reinstated Texas’s congressional map that adds up to five GOP pickup opportunities until the high court rules on the state’s emergency appeal.