Texas GOP rams through gerrymandered map after quorum fight

🤠Texas Republican lawmakers completed mid-decade redistricting on Aug. 29, 2025, when Governor Greg Abbott signed maps creating five new safe GOP seats through surgical gerrymandering of major cities

Democratic legislators fled 🤠Texas on Aug. 3, 2025, breaking quorum for two weeks but ultimately returned on Aug. 18, 2025 after facing $500 daily fines, arrest warrants, and threats of removal from office

Attorney General Ken Paxton sued 13 Democratic lawmakers Aug. 8, 2025, seeking their removal from the legislature while threatening bribery charges against those who stayed away

Trump personally demanded the redistricting push to gain five congressional seats, calling it a "very simple redrawing" essential for preserving GOP control of the House in 2026

Computer algorithms split Austin, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio across multiple rural Republican districts, diluting Democratic voting power through "packing" and "cracking" techniques

🌴California Governor Gavin Newsom announced retaliatory redistricting adding five Democratic seats if 🤠Texas maps become law, escalating the first interstate gerrymandering war since Reconstruction

The Princeton Gerrymandering Project gives 🤠Texas congressional maps an "F" grade for extreme partisan bias, ranking among the worst gerrymandered states in America