Texas House Democrats, who fled the state to block a GOP-led redistricting plan, are now heading to California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to host them. Meanwhile, Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has filed a lawsuit in Illinois to enforce arrest warrants against the lawmakers.

President Trump on Tuesday said the FBI “may have to” get involved in Texas Republican officials’ efforts to arrest state Democrats who fled Texas to delay the GOP-controlled legislature’s scheme to redraw congressional maps to benefit Republicans.

California Democrats are rushing to schedule an election to remake U.S. House districts to counter plans to boost Republican seats in Texas

The fight for control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections is underway — long before a single ballot is cast next year. Texas is fighting to enact a GOP-led redistricting effort that would give Republicans five more seats in the state and help them hold their narrow majority in the U.

In Texas, a chaotic fight is brewing over Republicans’ plans to redraw the state’s congressional map to give the GOP the potential for five more seats in the midterm elections. Democratic representatives have fled the state to block a vote on the new map,

The redistricting battle in Texas continues to escalate as Republican Gov. Greg Abbott claimed he had heard the FBI will search for Texas House Democrats who left the state in protest of proposed new congressional maps.

Leading Illinois Democrats and the head of the national Democratic party joined Texas House Democrats this week in a call for a political redistricting fight to expand to a national battle on Tuesday.

A Texas Monthly representative discusses Texas Democrats walking out to block a GOP redistricting plan that could add five congressional seats. The move delays the vote, but the analyst calls it a last-ditch tactic with limited influence.

Texas Democrats continue to camp out in different states across the country seeking to block voting back home on new congressional maps that would give Republicans more winnable seats