The NAACP joined an ongoing federal lawsuit on Tuesday against Texas over its newly approved congressional maps , alleging state lawmakers deliberately diluted the political power of Black voters ahead of next year’s elections.

The NAACP’s 141-page supplemental lawsuit accuses Texas lawmakers of racial gerrymandering by weakening Black voting power in cities like Houston , Dallas and Austin by “cracking” historically Black neighborhoods across multiple districts and “packing” others into a small number of seats, limiting their overall representation.

“It’s quite obvious that Texas’s effort to redistrict mid-decade, before next year’s midterm elections, is racially motivated,” said Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP. “The state’s intent here is to reduce the members of

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