California Democrats are taking up their proposed constitutional amendment to temporarily redraw their congressional maps, hours after Republicans in the Texas House passed new maps of their own.

If everything goes Democrats’ way, Trump’s demands for five seats in Texas to mitigate losses elsewhere may not materialize.

The Texas state House on Aug. 20 passed a new election map that President Donald Trump has embraced to boost his party’s chances of holding its U.S. House majority in the midterms.

Several Texas state House Democrats ripped up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort and returned to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.

Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives returned to Austin on Aug. 18, 2025, but their protest of redistricting efforts continues.

Democrat activists are protesting the confinement of Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier after the state representative spent Monday night in the Texas House chamber after refusing to submit to around-the-clock surveillance by the Department of Public Safety.