How Texas congressional districts would change under Republicans’ new proposal

The proposal can still change before the legislators reflect it further, and the members of the Committee can always refer new examination proposals throughout the special session.

For the moment, committee members are expected to discuss the card offered at a meeting on Friday. The legislative democrats, however, suggested that they could interrupt the broader process by leaving the state and by refusing to the Republicans the quorum necessary to advance a bill.

The effort to rediscover in mid-December, as many regularly programmed card redemptions, is imbued with partisan policy, in order to help the Republicans to keep their vast majority at home during the mid-term elections next year.

The New York Times reported last month that members of Trump’s political operation had exhorted the Texas Republicans to redraw their cards before the mid-2026. And Trump publicly praised the efforts, pressing the legislators in Texas this month to take measures that would help the GOP to acquire five seats of the house.

The representative of the State Gina Hinojosa, a Democrat representing Austin who helped organize a disengagement by democratic legislators in 2021 to counter an attempted GOP to tighten the laws on voting, told NBC News that she and her colleagues were ready to “fight with everything we obtained”.

“What is happening in Texas will inform what is happening in other states. This is Trump’s attempt to block the responsibility, to block voters, because he is afraid of voters and what we will do him mid-term in 2026,” she said.

Hinojosa said that, while State Democrats continue to weigh to flee the state again to deprive the legislature of the number of legislators necessary to adopt bills, she thinks that the “quorum break” of 2021 has succeeded in succeeding in the Democrats’ argument and managed to remove two provisions of the legislation that Democrats opposed to the Democrats.

How the new lines differ from the old

The lines of the newly proposed maps were cut in the districts of the South Texas Congress held by the Democrats Henry Cuellar and Vicentte Gonzalez, the Dallas region district held by Julie Johnson and the district of the Houston region held by Al Green. The newly proposed lines would also effectively combine districts in the Austin region owned by Democrats Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett.

According to a review of cards and demographic data and voting by NBC News, the proposed limits seem to put more Latin voters in the new Cuellar district – a decision that bets that demographic changes in the region are useful for republicans. Gonzalez’s proposed district has many more white voters than the current version.

Green’s seat, on the other hand, would be redesigned to include much more white and Latinos voters and many black voters. Green, which has been the district since 2005, introduced articles of dismissal against Trump last month. Another district of the Houston region, the 18th, would be more user -friendly for the Democrats, going from a Harris won by nearly 40 percentage points last year to the one she would have gained by 54 points.

Johnson, whose current district is mainly non -white, would represent an almost uniformly divided between white and non -white voters, which Trump would have won nearly 18 points.

And while the 33rd district of the region of the representative Marc Veasey, of the Dallas region, would remain strongly democratic, the areas around his hometown, Fort Worth, would be far from his district and in a safe republican district.

Then there is Casar and Doggett. The new lines raise the possibility that the two Democrats should present themselves in primary school against each other – a Casar perspective has promised to fight, increasing the prospect of legal action.

“The merger of the 35th and 37th districts is an illegal abolition of the voters of the Texans of the Center of Blacks and Latino,” wrote Casar on X. “By merging our central Texas districts, Trump wants to commit another crime – this time, against Texas Voters and against the law on voting rights.”

“United, we are going to fight back with everything we have,” wrote Casar. “If Trump is authorized to tear the law on voting rights to shred them here in the center of Texas, his ploy will propagate as forest fires across the country. All those who care about our democracy must mobilize against this illegal map.”

Last year, Trump carried two of the 13 seats in Texas that the Democrats are currently holding, the districts of southern Texas of Cuellar and Gonzalez. The Cuellar district went to Trump by 7 points, while Gonzalez went to him by 4 points, according to the analysis of the decision of NBC News. Cuellar won his seat of less than 6 points, while Gonzalez was victorious with less than 3 points, illustrating the thin margins at stake in the region.

Looking at the election results in 2024 through the proposed cards of Texas Gop, Trump would have won their two 10 -point districts.

Harris won the current 34 -point Doggett and Casar’s 49 -point Doggett headquarters. But under the proposed cards, she would have won the new 56 -point centered seat, while Trump would have brought the other seat, centered more in evidence around San Antonio, 10 points.

The redistribution process generally occurs at the start of each new decade, when new census data is available. The texts of the Texas, which were drawn in 2021, are still in progress in the court, with an alleging trial that they discriminate the black and Latinos voters.

The President of the State Democratic Party, Kendall Scudder, criticized the proposal in a statement, accusing the Republicans of the State of going to Trump and promising to fight against his implementation.

“The republicans of Texas finally revealed their new redistribution card, and not surprisingly, it is drawn to represent Donald Trump, not the voices of the Texans. He is illegally drawn in a way that silences the voices of the minority communities through Texas”, said Scudder, adding: “The Texas Democrats will not use all the available methods to oppose this Take -up desperate.

The cards are also faced with the resistance of actors outside of parties policy. The question is whether legal action would prevent a new card from taking effect for the 2026 elections.

Dan Vicuna, the main political director of voting and fair representation to the surveillance group of the Common Cause government, said during a call to journalists before the proposed cards were filed according to which the group legally disputes all the cards filed in Texas which, according to them, were “Gerrymandered”.

“We will continue,” said Vicuna. “We have already been there, and we will be there again to challenge unjust cards, no matter who attracts them.”