When you think of redistricting in Texas gerrymandering also inevitably comes to mind. This isn’t without cause. Since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Texas has gained notoriety for its blatant gerrymandering when drawing district lines cycle after cycle...
Redistricting
back to archiveHow will Republicans gerrymander Texas?
As congressional districts are redrawn after the 2020 census, Texas will once again have a Republican trifecta creating the map. The GOP has used gerrymandering before and with the Democrats retaining only a slim majority in the House, they will most certainly do so...
Redistricting in Texas delayed by late Census data
A Census Bureau official on Wednesday announced that data used to apportion seats and draw state and federal district lines has been delayed. The delivery of apportionment data, which determines how many House seats Texas will gain, has been delayed until April 30. It...
Texas redistricting kicks off with public input meetings.
Lawmakers in the Texas Senate will hold meetings every day this week to hear from Texans about the 2021 legislative redistricting process. The 12 scheduled public input meetings will allow Texans to speak their mind about any considerations, ideas, or complaints they...
New Democrat-led Senate could save Texas from its own gerrymandering
Democrats scooped two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia on Tuesday, giving them a small majority in the upper chamber. That means the legislative blockade by Sen. Mitch McConnell is gone, and the bills he once scuttled upon arrival in the Senate have a real chance of...
Op-Ed: The redistricting fight is far from over
It’s no secret that the results in down-ballot races didn’t quite mirror the success that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had for their party at the top of the ticket. But far too many political reporters and pundits view the lack of gains in the 2020 election as a death...
Mehdi Hasan calls out Dan Crenshaw’s gerrymandered district
Political reporter Mehdi Hasan successfully irked Houston’s Rep. Dan Crenshaw this week, sparking the two to go at each other on Twitter. On a segment on “The Mehdi Hasan Show,” Medhi responded to a social media post made by Crenshaw pushing for election reform so...
Redistricting Part One: 2003
Having made it to the precipice of the most important election of our lifetimes, Texas Democrats in the waning days of the 2020 campaign have alternated between optimistic enthusiasm and foreboding anxiety. Texas Democrats haven’t been this close to the...