NexStar – Texas lawmakers in the House of Representatives will discuss a new map of Congress that aims to give Republicans an advantage to capture five seats in Midterms 2026.
The map was suggested by Representative Todd Hunter, R – Corpus Christi, who will place the draft law in the committee session on Friday morning at 10 am. The meeting agenda says that the first 90 minutes of the session will be booked to plan the draft law, which is an opportunity for legislators to ask questions about the proposed map.
After planning the draft law, the committee will listen to a public certificate that will be directed at a maximum of ten hours. People can only see the Capitol and they will only have two minutes to speak.
How did we get here
Rumors began to re -divide the circles in June when reports appeared that the White House wanted to restore Lone Star State to re -draw the Congress maps to help the Republicans capture more seats before 2026.
The governor of the state, Greg Abbott, placed the re -division of the rotation on the invitation of the special session “in light of the constitutional concerns raised by the US Department of Justice.” A message from the Civil Rights Department of the Ministry of Justice claimed four of the Congress areas in Texas that were racist.
However, President Donald Trump told reporters in early July that the voltage of re -dividing the circles was to get five seats.
A selected committee held the House of Representatives on the re -division of departments three general sessions in July to allow people to testify for what they are considering re -drawing Congress maps. These meetings were held in Austin, Houston and Erlington. The majority of the certificate in those meetings was criticizing the efforts to divide the circles.
Hunter presented his suggested map early this week below Home Law Bill 4. You can enlarge the map below to find out which area will be located according to the proposed plan:
The proposal transmits some of the occupants of democratic jobs from their current areas and places them in another region, either in competition with a Republican member or in competition with someone in their party. However, the US constitution said that a candidate for Congress must live in that state, but not necessarily in the region they are running.
The proposed map seems to target members of Congress in the largest city in the state. Brian Smith, a political professor at St. Edward University, explains that mapping makers “are already taking democratic areas and making them safer, which may make the neighboring republican regions more republic.”
The map below shows you how provinces were changed in some of the largest cities in Texas:
What do they say?
National Democrats and an explicit assets were frustrated by re -dividing the circles in the middle of the decade. This process is usually done at the beginning of each contract when new census data is available. Based on the trends of the population, the states can either earn or lose seats in Congress.
“I think Trump has taken hatreds to Austin and the entire country really, in order to preserve his individual rule,” said US MP Lloyd Dujett, Dr. Austin, on the proposed map. In the proposal, his area was combined with parts of the American MP Greg Kassar area. Dogit said he was planning to run again in 2026.
The Democrats in Texas in the House of Representatives were traveling to different democratic states-Ilinoy, California, and New Mexico-to speak with their rulers about this process and “continuing the national effort to gather to build a wall of protection against the re-dividing the corrupt circles, which are forced into the address, according to a press statement,” according to a press statement.
The Republicans in Texas remained silent in the entire process. Representative Al -Dawla Nate Chatzeline, p. – Fort Worth, Did he post on his X account? On Wednesday, a picture of the proposed map with an illustrative name, “It seems that 5 seats were turned in red! Let’s accomplish it!”