But there is a term, too, for so aggressively redrawing a map that it puts that party’s own seats at risk: a “dummymander.” The Texas GOP knows the risk.

Texas Republicans aim to redraw House districts at Trump’s urging, but there’s a risk by NICHOLAS RICCARDI and NADIA LATHAN, Associated Press - 07/21/25 5:20 PM ET ...

Texas has 38 seats in the House. Republicans now hold 25 and Democrats 12, with one seat vacant after Democrat Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, died in March. Gonzalez’s district ...

Texas Republicans are poised to redraw the state’s congressional map during a special session that starts Monday ...

Mapmakers — in most states, it’s the party that controls the legislature — must adjust congressional and state legislative lines after every 10-year census to ensure that districts have about the same ...