The mid-decade map redraw adds five Republican-leaning districts and sets up a legal showdown over minority representation.

Just as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred was holding a town hall near the Mexican border as part of an “unrig Texas” campaign tour, the state’s Democratic fundraising powerhouse Beto O’Ro...

“Literally minutes after Abbott signs this bill and the redistricting plan goes into effect, there’ll be litigation, most likely by Democrats, by the ACLU, by LULAC, by the NAACP,” said Jon Taylor, t...