The Texas Legislature is scheduled to convene Monday for a special session, which now includes flood-related issues.

Actually derailing the redistricting effort, which was one of nearly 20 items added to the special session agenda by Gov. Greg Abbott, would be a herculean lift fraught with risk for legislative Democrats. Delaying the process with a walkout would require strong participation by most of the party's caucus, and could carry steep financial costs.

Texas state Representative James Talarico joined The Joe Rogan Experience and urged Republicans to compete for young voters rather than trying to suppress them.

More than 20 years after launching mid-decade redistricting, the Lone Star State is back in the middle again. It’s easy to forget these days, given the more than three-decade dominance of Republicans in Texas, that Democrats began 2004 with a majority of the state’s delegation to the U.S. House.

President Donald Trump pitched a key group of Texas Republicans Tuesday on his strategy for his party to hold onto power in the midterms: Redrawing those members’ districts to allow for even more GOP seats.

Some local Republicans think Texas' congressional districts were drawn competitively in 2021 and worry about districts flipping to Democrats. Others think boundaries were drawn too safely with too-large GOP majorities.

The party is weighing its options for battling the GOP-led effort to redraw congressional boundaries ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) warned that GOP redistricting efforts in the Lone Star State represent a “five-alarm fire” and urged Democrats to push back. “This is a five-alarm fire, what’s happening in Texas.

Having never expanded Medicaid, Texas avoided most of the looming federal cuts other states will face. But the Affordable Care Act is a different story.