On Tuesday, a three-judge panel ruled against the use of a new Texas congressional map for the 2026 midterm election.

Through the redistricting effort, the GOP hoped to pick up five more U.S. House seats. Abbott signed the congressional map into law in August and celebrated on social media that “Texas will be more RED in Congress.”

A judge ordered that the 2026 congressional election will “proceed under the map that the Texas Legislature enacted in 2021.”

In a news release, Abbott responded to the decision, “The Legislature redrew our congressional maps to better reflect Texans’ conservative voting preferences – and for no other reason. Any claim that these maps are discriminatory is absurd and unsupported by the testimony offered during ten days of hearings."

“This ruling is clearly e

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