C-SPAN's description prematurely of the legislative session is: "The Texas House of Representatives gavels in for a fourth attempt at a vote on a new congressional map for the state. Most Democrats left Texas to try and block the map designed to boost the GOP's chances of holding the House in 2026's midterms."

News and Analysis

• AP: Texas Legislature to take one other swing at redistricting vote as Democrats lengthen their walkout

• Texas Tribune: Ken Paxton asks Texas Supreme Court to expel 13 House Democrats over redistricting standoff | Gov. Greg Abbott beforehand requested the court to expel Rep. Gene Wu, the House Democratic chief. Paxton disputed the governor’s authority to make the request.

• AP: Why dozens of Democrats left Texas and the way Republicans need to punish them

• Texas Tribune: Texas House points arrest warrants for Democrats who left state to dam congressional redistricting | The warrants apply solely inside state traces, making them largely symbolic as many of the legislators in query decamped to Illinois, New York and Massachusetts.

• NPR: Texas Democrats walked out to dam the GOP. How effectively has the tactic labored earlier than?

• USA Today: Texas Democrats fled the state to oppose GOP redistricting. Why this one stayed behind. | In 2003, Texas Rep. Richard Peña Raymond battled a Republican redistricting plan all the best way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, he's doing it once more. But as fellow Democrats fled the state, he stayed.

Live Updates

Text-based stay updates are being supplied by: The Texas Tribune.

Where to Watch

• AP by way of YouTube: Texas Democrats, Sen. Dick Durbin maintain press convention on redistricting map

• C-SPAN: Texas House of Reps. Holds Special Session Amid GOP Redistricting Plans