The Texas Senate could vote Friday to approve new congressional maps drawn to help Republicans win as many as five more House seats in next year’s midterm elections.

The Texas Senate on Friday began debating a bill that redraws the state's congressional maps at the behest of President Donald Trump in an effort to flip five seats held by Democrats to Republicans.

The two most populous states are in a political battle poised to have a major impact on the balance of power in Washington DC.

This fall, California's voters will decide whether to approve the Democratic party's plan to gerrymander the state's congressional map, which serves a transparent political purpose: countering Texas Republicans' new map.

Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for legal penalties for lawmakers who impede action in the Legislature after Texas House Democrats blocked a vote on GOP redistricting for two weeks.

When Ann Zimmerman Gallant learned of a congressional redistricting map Texas Republicans introduced last month, she immediately looked to see how lawmakers had changed the district she lives in. Zimmerman Gallant lives in a North Dallas neighborhood sandwiched between Preston Hollow and Lake Highlands.