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The NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law are suing the state of Texas over its newly drawn congressional map, per Reuters .

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in El Paso on Tuesday (August 26), alleging that the Republican-led redistricting effort is racially motivated and seeks to suppress Black and minority voting power ahead of the 2026 midterm election. Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Secretary of State Jane Nelson are named as defendants in the lawsuit.

“The state of Texas is only 40 percent white, but white voters control over 73 percent of the state’s congressional seats,” Derrick Johnson , president and CEO of the NAACP, said in a statement. “It’s quite obvious that Texas’s effort to redist

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