As Texas Republicans move ahead with redistricting to protect or even expand the GOP’s slim majority in the US House, Democratic-run states, led by California, are pushing forward with their own efforts to draw new maps and add Democratic seats.

Dave’s Redistricting is a web app developed by Dave Bradlee, a software engineer, that allows users to draw imagined electoral districts. Hobbyists can combine the relaxation of paint-by-numbers with the catharsis of destroying their political opponents in a fantasised redistricting process.

Texas Democrats have prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump to shore up Republicans’

Abbott filed an emergency petition with the Texas Supreme Court to have Rep. Gene Wu, D-Houston, the Democratic Caucus Chair, removed from office.