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Texas, Donald Trump and GOP

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Trump pushes Texas Republicans to redraw congressional maps to help defend GOP's House majority
President Trump and Texas GOP leaders push for mid-decade redistricting to create five new winnable seats, as both parties engage in mapping strategies to control the House in 2026.

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Trump tells Texas Republicans to redraw the state congressional map to help keep House majority
Trump wants Texas to redraw its congressional map to pick up more GOP seats. Here's what to know.

Texas, Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom

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Newsom’s Threat to Match Trump’s Texas Power Grab Is Risky Business
California’s governor keeps talking about creating new House seats in response to a Texas gerrymander. But the gambit could backfire on Democrats.

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Gavin Newsom's warning to Donald Trump over plan for Texas Republicans
Liberals look to California to counter Trump's Texas gerrymandering plan

Trump administration, Immigrant

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Texas based immigration advocacy group sues Trump administration over courthouse arrests
A lawsuit filed in federal court looks to stop the Trump administration's arrests in immigration courthouse, as ICE looks to increase arrests.

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Immigrants suing Trump administration for practice of making arrests at court hearings
How the Trump administration is amping up immigrant deportations
Cook Political Report moves Texas Senate race to ‘likely Republican’
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report changed its rating of the 2026 Texas Senate race from “solid Republican” to “likely ...
FEMA's quick Texas response was 'the exception' as backlog grows under Trump
As natural disasters like flooding, tornadoes and landslides piled up this spring, FEMA accumulated a backlog of disaster ...
Tracking Trump: AI may soon audit taxes; details on the Indonesia trade deal; Trump tells GOP to gerrymander Texas; and more
Trump called on Texas Republicans to gerrymander their districts. Senate Republicans rallied behind turning DOGE cuts into ...
John Cornyn appeals to Trump as he faces primary headwinds
Cornyn may be in his toughest Senate re-election fight yet in a primary against state Attorney General Ken Paxton — and the ...
Trump, first lady mourn young lives lost in Texas floods, praise first responders during Kerrville roundtable
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump met with local, state and federal officials and first responders who are ...
This Texas Democrat is adding fuel to the ongoing MAGA feud over Jeffrey Epstein
President Donald Trump has plenty of recent accomplishments he wants the public to talk about, but there’s an issue dividing ...
Texas officials defend flood response and Tucker Carlson criticizes Trump: Morning Rundown
Plus, Republicans strategists are advising lawmakers to appeal to working class voters when selling Donald Trump's "big, ...
Texas Trump threat suspect arrested after allegedly writing 'I won’t miss' in social media post
A Texas man was arrested on federal charges after an alleged Facebook threat saying “I won’t miss" ahead of Trump’s Kerrville ...