After a long day of debate, the Texas House of Representatives approved Maps of the Congress favored by the Republicans on Wednesday night that could turn to five red districts fusing Democratic seats in the areas of Houston, Austin and Dallas-Forth Worth to form new Republican seats and making two districts of Rio Grande Valley that are currently more competitive.
The districts currently held by Democratic representatives to Green, Marc Veasey, Julie Johnson, Greg Casar and Lloyd Dogget are potentially attacked.
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, speaks during a press conference at the State Capitol, on August 15, 2025 in Austin, Texas.
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The vote occurred weeks after state Democrats denounced the redistribution of unorthodox medium decade districts such as shameless gerrymandering to increase the number of seats of the Congress of the Republican Party.
The special session was delayed after the Democrats left the State to avoid a quorum, despite the threats of arrest of governor Greg Abbott and other republican leaders.
Some Democrats returned to the state house on Monday and allowed the legislature to reach a quorum, but continued talking against the controversial redistribution of districts.
The protesters encourage the representative of the State of Texas, Nicole Collier, after she chose to remain in the House of the House of Texas in the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, on August 18, 2025.
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It is likely that the districts redistribution plan, which was pressed by President Donald Trump, passes. The map could go to the state Senate as soon as the end of the week and then would go to Governor Greg Abbott for his firm.
The protesters shout in support of state representative Nicole Collier, after she chose to remain in the Chamber of the Texas Chamber in the Capitol of the Texas State in Austin, Texas, on August 19, 2025.
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A handful of the Democrats of the Texas House of Representatives rejected the police escorts to ensure that they would not leave the State again. They spent during the night at the House of Texas in solidarity with state representative Nicole Collier, who had refused to sign a “permission slip”, which allows him to leave the state’s capitol with an escort of application of the law.
The Capitol of the State of Texas also took care of a threat of social networks on Tuesday night that led to the evacuation of the land and the building, but the democratic legislators who were already in the building remained inside.
The protesters meet in the roundabout outside the House of the House of Representatives in the Texas Capitol while the legislators discuss a map of the US Congress in Texas during a special, on August 20, 2025, in Austin, Texas.
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The bill, which was recently presented for the second special session after the first was postponed because it did not have a quorum, died of the committee on Monday.
