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Gov. Greg Abbott signs new Texas congressional map designed to give GOP five more seats
Governor Abbott signed a redistricting bill expected to flip up to five U.S. House seats to Republicans in 2026, sparking protests and lawsuits alleging minority voter dilution.
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a new congressional voting map to help Republicans gain more seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
- The new map has sparked protests from Texas Democrats, who plan to challenge it in court for potentially violating the Voting Rights Act.
- California's new bill aims to create Democratic-leaning districts to counter Republican gains in Texas.
- Republican leaders argue the map is not racially discriminatory and creates more majority-minority seats than before.
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Abbott signs mid-decade Texas congressional maps, escalating national redistricting fight
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional districts, capping a special-session push that Republicans say could net their party up to five additional U.S. House seats in 2026. The move followed weeks of walkouts, marathon hearings and a pressure campaign from President Donald Trump to “lock in” more GOP-leaning districts before the midterms. Republicans framed the overhaul as both legal and necessary…
Austin—The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, signed a new U.S. Congressional electoral map as a law on Friday, designed to help Republicans win more seats in the 2026 mid-term elections, delivering a victory to President Donald Trump and his desire to keep a thin majority of the GOP in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Texas map drawn up in the rare re-istriation in the mid-decade sparked ferocious protests from Democrats and launched a stret…
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