Texas’s Republican Legislature, prodded by President Donald Trump, is poised to enact a new congressional map intended to deliver as many as five more seats for House Republicans in a rare mid-decade redistricting.
With implications for the 2026 midterm elections, the move has triggered a fierce national partisan battle that resulted in Texas Democrats temporarily fleeing to prevent legislative action and other governors, including those from Democratic-dominated California and New York, threatening their own redistricting plans.
The five targeted Lone Star districts — two in the Rio Grande Valley and one each in the Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio ...