Facing the possibility of losing control of the U.S. House next year, national Republicans are pushing two GOP-led states are weighing aggressively redrawing their congressional districts and ...

Texas Republicans might redraw state's U.S. House districts to protect majority from the midterm curse By David Martin Davies Texas Public Radio Jun 22, 2025 ...

On Capitol Hill, members of the Texas GOP delegation huddled Monday night to discuss the prospect of reshaping their districts. Most of the 25-member group expressed reluctance about the idea ...

The White House has been urging Texas Republicans to look into potentially redrawing the lines of their House districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections in an attempt to try and safeguard the ...

White House aides have reportedly been pushing Texas Republicans to re-open the redistricting process this summer to make the maps even more dominating for Republicans in Congress.

Critics of a prior House map, which favored Republicans 6-1, argued it violated section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and needed to be redrawn with an additional black-majority district.

FILE - Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, speaks during a hearing of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2024, in Washington.

Texas doesn’t have many competitive house districts, especially after the latest round of redistricting in 2021, when state lawmakers redrew the state’s political maps. Under the new maps ...

The border House districts are a competitive outlier in Texas, where Republicans have full control of the Legislature and a Democrat has not occupied a statewide office for more than 30 years.

He attributed this to the safe districts which exist under the current maps. The congressional districts drawn in Texas currently do not favor competition — just two House races were decided by ...

A rare mid-decade redistricting push has unnerved some Texas Republicans, who worry a drive to harm Democrats could end up endangering G.O.P. incumbents in 2026.