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Texas Republicans ensure state won't go blue for at least 10 years with new gerrymander map

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/insider/texas-redistricting.html
>In Texas, Republicans, as the majority party, have been in charge of redrawing the Texas map for the past 18 years. Reporting on redistricting can be an arcane business of looking into deals made by politicians behind closed doors.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/18/texas-redistricting-democrats-2022/
>Democrats won’t be rallying voters with claims they can flip control of the Texas Legislature in the general election a year from now.

>The redistricting maps nearing approval in the current special legislative session make that a near impossibility.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Republicans-spare-Rep-Sheila-Jackson-Lee-in-16542254.php
>Democratic U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is being spared in a new revised version of a congressional redistricting plan that had previously threatened to force thousands of mostly Black Houston residents to change who represents them in Washington.

>Texas House Democrats battled over the weekend to force House Republicans to accept a compromise proposal that keeps downtown Houston, the Third Ward and Texas Southern University all within the 18th Congressional District.