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November 19, 2025

Federal Court Rules Texas Cannot Use New Congressional Map for the 2026 Midterm Elections
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A federal court ruled that Texas cannot use its recently passed
congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections and will instead have
to rely on a previous map from 2021. Texas Republican state legislators
over the summer pushed for a new congressional map that could garner the
GOP five additional House seats. In his ruling striking down the new
congressional map, Trump-appointed Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote, "The
public perception of this case is that it's about politics. To be sure,
politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more
than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially
gerrymandered the 2025 Map." Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to
ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the ruling.


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