Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, the longest-serving member of Texas' congressional delegation, announced Thursday that he will retire instead of run for re-election if new congressional district boundaries aren't rejected in court after state Republicans carved up his Austin-area home district in new maps.

On the eve of the Texas House voting on a new congressional map, President DONALD TRUMP ordered his “Republican friends” in the state legislature to get it to Gov. GREG ABBOTT ’s desk “ASAP.”

“This is illegitimate, this is a wrongful use of power, and I will not condone it, and I don’t want to be a part of setting a very bad and low precedent for future legislators.”

Democrats are asking questions and giving final remarks on the Texas House floor ahead of the vote on the GOP’s plan to redraw the state’s congressional map after Democratic lawmakers returned to Aus...

State Rep. Gene Wu, the House Democratic leader, said that voters’ “problems start right here.”