Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, defeating four-term Sen. John Cornyn, the Associated Press projects.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans gain more seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
Texas Democrats are preparing their final show of resistance against a mid-decade redraw of the state's congressional map
The approval by the Texas House of Representatives came at the urging of President Donald Trump. Democrats have vowed to sue to challenge the new Texas map.
"My daughter was stolen from us," one of the several Texas parents who lost children in the Camp Mystic flooding said at the hearing.
The Texas House reached a quorum earlier Monday after Democrats returned to Austin, ending a two-week standoff with Republicans over proposed congressional maps.
