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Special Session Recap – Texas Redistricting
The second special session of the year is complete, and now Texas officially has a new congressional map. Under the updated congressional district lines, Republicans could potentially pick up five new seats here in the state — changing the makeup of our congressional delegation and carrying national implications in the battle for control of the House majority in Congress:
- Trump +15 seat in the Houston area
- Trump +10 seat in the San Antonio area
- Trump +18 seat in the Dallas area
- Trump +10 and Trump +10.5 seats in the Rio Grande Valley
National Redistricting Updates
These newly drawn districts are not a guaranteed victory for Texas conservatives. We still need to run good, principled candidates, focused on limited government, who will work hard to lower spending and taxes.
Even if Texans elect five conservative leaders to fill these seats, we still have an uphill battle to hold a Republican majority in Congress in part because of possible redistricting countermeasures in other states.
In California, Governor Gavin Newsom and state Democrats have proposed counter-maps in an attempt to swing five seats towards Democrat control — canceling out Republicans’ potential gains in Texas.
Updates from other states considering redistricting include:
- Missouri: The Missouri House passed a redistricted map, giving Republicans the opportunity to flip one seat
- Indiana: Republicans are in discussions with the White House about redistricting prospects
- Louisiana: Republicans are considering a special session to address redistricting
- Ohio: The state is required under its constitution to redraw its map for the midterms
- Kansas: Republicans are considering redistricting
- Utah: The state is required by court order to redraw its congressional districts
- Florida: Republicans plan to redistrict if the federal government conducts a new census
- New York: Democrats are pushing for legislation to allow mid-decade redistricting
- Maryland: Democrats will file redistricting considerations during their 2026 legislative session
Defending Majorities and Another Funding Battle
Right now, Republicans hold a narrow six-seat majority in the House and have a 53 to 47 seat advantage in the Senate. Republicans will have an opportunity to increase their control of the Senate through elections in Georgia and Michigan, where Trump won, and through an open seat in New Hampshire.
Still, it is crucial that we hold the line here in Texas and in other Republican strongholds.
Time will tell what effect redistricting has on the slim margin in the House come next fall, but in the meantime, the focus of the Republican majority in the 119th Congress will be on the funding battle taking place now that Congress is back in session.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has said that Republicans will be moving forward with the normal appropriations process, but the parties in Congress are at odds over how to avoid a government shutdown by October 1st.
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