Texas Senate Democrats plan to filibuster the House-passed redistricting map during floor debate on Friday in a last-ditch effort to delay the final passage of the plan to create five new winnable seats for the GOP.

One Texas Senate Democrat is taking drastic measures to ensure her filibuster of the state Republican redistricting plan is successful. Democratic state Sen. Carol Alvarado is using a catheter to urinate into a urine bag,

Gene Wu, the leader of the Texas House Democrats who fled the state earlier this month to resist Republican-led efforts to redraw Texas's congressional maps, joined a private strategy call on Thursday with Democratic legislative leaders from other Republican-led states that might also redraw their maps,