A Republican redistricting plan in Texas bets that Latinos will vote for the GOP with as much, or more, enthusiasm as they did in 2024. New polling suggests that's a risky bet.

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The news comes after California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) pushed for a ballot initiative to allow California’s state legislature to enact its own redistricting scheme favoring Democrats, and California voters approved it on Nov. 4.

CAIR officials, who along with the Muslim Legal Fund of America have sued Abbott and state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) over the declaration, deny that allegation as well. CAIR’s Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin chapters asked a federal judge to strike down the proclamation, which also labeled the group “a transnational criminal organization.”

Offer Vince Shlomi, the entrepreneur widely known to television viewers as the high-energy "ShamWow guy," has filed to run for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in Texas’ 31st Congressional District,

The decision was a blow to Texas Republicans and President Donald Trump, who hoped the redistricting would help the party pick up seats in next year’s midterms.

A panel of federal judges in Texas on Tuesday blocked the state’s new GOP-favored House map from being used ahead of the 2026 midterms by declaring it a likely racial gerrymander, dealing a