The proposal can still change before legislators consider it more, and the members of the committee can still refer to new proposals for their consideration throughout the entire special session.
At the moment, the members of that committee are scheduled to discuss the proposed map during a Friday meeting. However, legislative democrats have suggested that they could interrupt the broader process by leaving the State and denying Republicans the necessary quorum to advance a bill.
The redistribution effort of districts in the mid -decade, such as many regularly scheduled map redraws, is full of partisan policies, with the eye of helping Republicans to cling to their close majority of the United States Chamber in the mid -period elections of next year.
The New York Times reported last month that the members of Trump’s political operation had urged Texas Republicans to draw their maps again before the partial people of 2026. And Trump himself publicly praised the efforts, pressing Texas legislators earlier this month to take measures that would help the Republican party to win five seats in the house.
The lines in the recently proposed maps cut the districts of the southern Congress of Texas currently held by Democratic representatives Henry Cuellar and Vicente González; the Dallas area district held by the representative Julie Johnson; and the district of the Houston area held by the representative to Green. The recently proposed lines also effectively combine the districts of the Austin area held by Democratic representatives Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett.
According to a review of the maps and the demographic and voting data of NBC News, the proposed limits seem to put more Latin voters in the new district of Cuellar, a measure that bets on demographic changes in the area are useful for Republicans. The district proposed by González includes more white voters than the current version.
Meanwhile, Green’s seat is being redesigned to substantially include more white and Latin voters, and much less black voters. Green, who has represented the district since 2005, presented articles of political trial against Trump last month.
Johnson, whose current district is not white, would now represent, under the proposed maps, an almost uniformly divided one between white and non -white voters.
Then they are marrying and doggett. The new lines pose the possibility that the two Democrats have to run in a primary among themselves, a perspective that married promised to fight, raising the perspective of legal actions.
“Merging districts 35 and 37 is the suppression of illegal voters of the black and Latin central tejans,” he wrote in X. “By merging our central Texas districts, Trump wants to commit another crime, this time, against the voters of Texas and against the Velocent Law.”
“United, we’ll fight with everything we have,” Casar wrote. “If Trump is allowed to tear the Voting Rights Law to crumble here in the center of Texas, its ploy will spread as a forest fire throughout the country. All those who care about our democracy must mobilize against this illegal map.”
In 2024, Trump wore two of the 13 teams of Texas that the Democrats currently have, the districts of the southern Texas de Cuellar and González. The Cúellar district went to Trump for 7 points, while González’s went to Trump for 4 points, according to the NBC News decision desk analysis. Cuellar won his seat for less than 6 points, while González left victorious for less than 3 points, illustrating the thin margins at stake in the region.
The districts redistribution process generally occurs at the beginning of each new decade, when there are new census data available. Texas maps, which were drawn in 2021, are still fought in court, with a lawsuit claiming that discriminate against black and Latin voters.
The president of the Texas Democratic Party, Kendall Scudder, criticized the proposal in a statement, accusing the state Republicans of Trump Kowtowing and promising to fight against their implementation.
“Texas Republicans have finally revealed their new redistribution map of districts, and as expected, they are attracted to represent Donald Trump, not the voices of the Texans. The voices of the minority communities in Texas are illegally drawn in a way that Silence Silence,” said Scudder.
“When Donald Trump knows he can’t win, he cheated and Texas Republicans showed that they can’t face their dictator aspiring,” he added. “This is designed for Donald Trump, not for Texans. Texas Democrats will use all the available methods to oppose this racist and desperate power. Nothing is out of the table.”
Maps will surely face the resistance of non -political actors as well. The question is whether any legal action would prevent a new map from arising in force for the 2026 elections.
Dan Vicuna, director of Senior policy of voting and fair representation in the Government’s Surveillance Group, Common Cause, in a call with journalists before the proposed maps were presented that the group would legally challenge any maps presented in Texas that “Gerrymanded” considered.
“We are going to sue,” Vicuna said. “We have been there before, and we will be absolutely there again to challenge unfair maps, regardless of who attracts them.”
