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In 2003, just three years after the decennial census, Texas Republicans developed a proposal to redraw that state’s congressional boundaries so provocative it caused 52 House Democrats to charter a bus to Oklahoma to prevent the Legislature from having the quorum needed to approve the plan.
Check out the new Texas political maps here. ... they took six Republican-leaning counties out of CD-34 and put them into Congressional District 27, represented by U.S. Rep. Michael Cloud, ...
Texas’ new political maps are law, but redistricting legal challenges are piling up, ... which splits communities of color in Tarrant County Democrat Beverly Powell’s district.
In redistricting, Texas’ 2 new congressional districts are going to Travis and Harris counties in an early proposal for the federal boundaries, leaving out North Texas.
The map below highlights the counties that had changes in presidential voting outcomes between 2016 and 2020. Williamson and Hays counties were the only counties in the state to flip from red to blue.