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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In early July, as President Donald ...

The Texas Legislature redrew the state's congressional districts after a bitter, partisan battle. Republicans undertook the rare, mid-decade redistricting in hopes of picking up five additional ...

AU.S. Supreme Court decisionon Thursday allows Texas' mid-decade congressional redistricting map, which was adopted this summer, to be used for the 2026 midterm elections. But it does not necessarily ...

A stubborn high pressure ridge could bring record January heat to Houston. Here’s why temperatures are running far above ...

AUSTIN, Texas — As Democrats continue to push back against an effort to redraw congressional districts, and Texas House Democrats remain out of the state to block a vote in that chamber on the ...

Texas Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, right, huddles with other democrat senators and staff members to fight against a bill on a redrawn U.S. congressional map during a special session in the Senate ...

Federal judges in Texas this week will weigh whether the state’s newly drawn congressional map unlawfully dilutes the voting power of racial minorities, bringing to a head a redistricting battle that ...

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