CHICAGO - Democratic state lawmakers from Texas have fled to Illinois and other states in an attempt to block a Trump-backed effort to redraw the Lone State’s congressional districts to further advantage the GOP in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.

While redrawing a state’s congressional districts is not unusual, the process typically happens every 10 years after a census, which last happened in 2020.

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Still, Democrats are alleging that Republicans are trying to politically gerrymander Texas’ congressional districts to squeeze out extra GOP wins.

That’s especially important in a tightly contested House of Representatives in which Republicans have a slim 291-212 majority.

Gerrymandering has a long history in the U.S., and Republican opponents have pointed out that I

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