The Republican Party’s redistricting efforts are heating up as the Texas legislature pushes for new congressional maps.

Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the ...

Logistics of moving primary dates, diluting Democratic districts way harder than political theater now playing out.

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Whether it’s Texas Republicans seeking to gerrymander congressional boundaries or Illinois Democrats preserving their control ...

Over a dozen states are locked in a standoff over the maps that could decide which party takes control of Congress in 2027.

As Texas House Democrats hunker down in Illinois to try to stop a Republican-led redistricting plan in their state, national ...

Texas’ redistricting standoff rose to a new level Friday as Democrats once again denied a quorum to allow the House to consider the GOP-led plan and Republicans responded by threatening more punitive ...

Texas Republicans are planning to escalate their efforts to end a weeklong holdout by Democrats if they don’t return to the ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed Thursday in an interview with NBC News to call “special session after special session after special session” until state Republicans can pass new maps to pad the party’s ...

A group of Texas Democratic legislators fled their home state and some took refuge in Illinois. The action was an attempt to ...

Former Democratic advisor Dan Turrentine warned that his party's dramatic redistricting language could hurt their chances of ...