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Both parties expect a GOP map in Texas to clear a big hurdle in a national fight over redistricting
Texas' Republican-led legislature is expected to approve new congressional maps that add five new House seats that the GOP could win.
Texas Republicans are advancing a redistricting plan that could expand GOP seats and create majority-Black districts in Houston and Dallas.
Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a police escort.
The Texas House gaveled in at noon with Democratic members present, marking an official end to the quorum break.
Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety.
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Police escort Texas Democrats to prevent new redistricting walkout as California moves to retaliate
Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public Safety officers to leave the floor.
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The New Republic on MSNTexas Dems Resort to Wild Measure to Protest Fascist Surveillance
President Donald Trump has taken aim at MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace in a bizarre social media rant. The drama started when 79-year-old Trump kicked off his Sunday morning with a cryptic post on Truth Social. “Bela,” he wrote, leaving his followers to debate the meaning of the word.