The Texas Senate on Saturday approved new congressional maps drawn to help Republicans win as many as five more House seats in next year’s midterm elections.

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,

The Texas House passed a new congressional map Wednesday that will likely give Republicans five more seats in a closely divided U.S. House. Why it matters: The redistricting would go a long way to ensuring the U.