Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has said the chamber will reconvene at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT) to move ahead with legislative business, including redistricting.

National Republicans are ramping up their efforts to squeeze out more GOP-friendly congressional seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections outside of the five seats they hope to gain in Texas.

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.

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.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is asking an Illinois court to enforce arrest warrants against Democrats who fled to the Prairie State over GOP efforts to redraw Texas’s congressional maps. On Monday,

In 2021, Gov. JB Pritzker in 2021 signed one of the most aggressively gerrymandered congressional maps in the country.

RCP contributor and lawyer Richard Porter joined Tom Bevan Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics Podcast, to discuss why Democrats are happy to fight on the issue of redistricting, and the vulnerabilities they're exposing by comparing what Texas is doing to blue states like Illinois.