Donald Trump has urged conservative states to redraw districts ahead of schedule, claiming Republicans deserve to expand their slim House majority. (EPA Images pic) WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s bid to lock in Republican rule in next year’s US elections with an unprecedented mid-decade redis»»»

close Video NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump got another victory in the high-stakes political battle between Republicans and Democrats over congressional redistricting. The Missouri state Senate, meeting Friday in a special legislative session, passed by a 21-11 vo»»»

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a controversial vote on new congressional maps. “Texas House Democrats abandoned their duty to Texans,” Abbott said in a statement Monday. “I ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to locate, ar»»»

AUSTIN, Texas: Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatened on Monday to arrest Democratic lawmakers who are using their collective absence from the state capital to prevent the legislature from adopting a Republican-backed plan for redrawing Texas congressional districts. The exodus of more than 50 Democ»»»

HOUSTON, Aug 5, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Dozens of Democrats in the Texas legislature faced threats of legal action Monday after they fled the US state to block a redrawing of districts in Republicans' favor ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The state's Republican leaders, following a push by President »»»

Texas House fails to establish quorum as dozens of Democrats flee state to block redrawn congressional map. Democratic state legislators in Texas have blocked a vote on a United States congressional map that favours their Republican rivals by leaving the state, preventing the state House of Represe»»»

Texas governor Greg Abbott has threatened to file bribery charges against Democratic legislators who fled the state to prevent a vote on a controversial redistricting plan that would significantly favour Republicans. At least two-thirds of the 150-member state legislative body must be present to pr»»»

Democratic lawmakers in Texas left the state on Sunday in an attempt to deny the Republican-led legislature the quorum required to pass a controversial redistricting of the state. On Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatened to remove the lawmakers if they did not return to the state within 24 »»»

The Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, has vowed to protect the Democratic members of the Texas house of representatives who left the state in an attempt to block Republican efforts to redraw Texas’s congressional maps. “We’re going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them and make »»»

Absconding to -- where else -- Chicago, Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives fled the state on Sunday to break a quorum and prevent a vote on a redistricting plan that promises to boost the GOP's share of seats in the US House of Representatives by five. In response, Gov. Greg A»»»

A vote on the proposed maps had been set for Monday in the Texas House of Representatives. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort attempt to block redrawn»»»

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has warned that he will initiate steps to remove Democratic lawmakers from office beginning Monday if they do not return to the state, amid a growing political standoff over proposed congressional redistricting maps backed by former President Donald Trump. The warning fol»»»

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday issued a letter threatening that he would remove any Democrats from the House if they do not return to Austin to pass the GOP’s proposed new congressional maps.The Republican governor’s late-night missive came after more than 50 Democrats left the state Sunday a»»»

WASHINGTON — Democratic state lawmakers have fled Texas in a bid to stop a vote on a new congressional map that would heavily favour Republicans.The redistricting, unveiled by Texas' majority Republicans last week and backed by President Donald Trump, would create five new Republican-leaning seats »»»