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Explainer: Texas Redistricting 2025
TEXAS, JUL 31 – Republicans aim to add five GOP-favored districts in Texas, with analysts projecting five pickup opportunities and demographic shifts, sparking legal and political challenges from Democrats.
- On Thursday, U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries condemned a Republican-backed redistricting proposal that would eliminate five Democratic seats, calling it a blatant attempt to rig elections.
- On Wednesday, Republican lawmakers introduced a redistricting plan after Gov. Greg Abbott reconvened the Texas Legislature earlier this month to address legislative priorities including redistricting.
- According to data analysis, the plan would shift one Democratic seat each from Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and the Austin/San Antonio corridor to Republican control, adding five districts Trump carried by double digits in 2024.
- In response, the controversy has sparked calls for retaliatory redistricting in California, with the National Redistricting Foundation labeling it a `racially discriminatory, brazen power grab` and Ken Martin pledging to explore options.
- This strategy threatens to drain the last meaningful races from the nearly maximally gerrymandered national congressional map, critics say, in an antidemocratic power grab.
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ABC's George Stephanopoulos PLEADS for Dems to Stop Texas Redistricting
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, in an interview with former Attorney General Eric Holder, sounded almost despondent while asking whether Democrats could do anything to stop the redistricting process currently underway in Texas. His question on the matter sounded like a plea. Watch as Holder discusses redistricting free of irony, with no pushback from Stephanopoulos: “Is there any way to stop it?” George Stephanopoulos to @EricHolder, his only guest…
Explainer: Texas Redistricting 2025
Congressman Al Green speaks to rally-goers about Texas Republicans’ attempt to redraw voting maps before 2030, and further stifle Black and Brown electoral voices. Credit: Aswad Walker. States across the U.S. have engaged in redistricting (drawing new Congressional voting maps to reflect population changes) every decade (following the U.S. Census) since 1790 (except for 1920). But Texas Republicans are choosing not to wait until 2030; they are a…
Missouri Republicans' attempt at district takeover is outrageous
Regarding "Missouri Republicans are talking about a redistricting push to help Trump, GOP" (July 29): It is unfathomable that some in the Republican Party feel that they can swindle voters out of yet another chance for balanced representation.
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