AUSTIN, Texas — On Saturday morning, the Texas House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting voted along party lines to advance a new proposed congressional district map to the full Texas House floor for a vote.

The push to redraw the congressional district map follows President Donald Trump's urging of Texas Republicans to redraw the congressional districts to secure five more Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“The effect of these maps is that now a black person is worth only one-fifth. I guess I should feel lucky because people who look like me are worth at least one-third. We are truly doing worse in 2025 Austin than in 1787 Philadelphia,” State Rep. Joe Moody (D-El Paso) said. “This is politics over people in the grossest way possible, which is a power

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