On Wednesday, the Texas House of Representatives approved state redistribution cards after several hours of debate.
During a vote of 88-52, state representatives of the state managed to cross the new redistribution cards, which are about to add five additional American house seats to the GOP despite the decline in Democrats, according to Texas Tribune. Voting along the party’s parts, the approval of the Texas Chamber is the first step for the Republicans to implement the new cards, because they still have to be approved by the Senate and signed by the Republican Governor of Texas Greg Abbott.
Chaos broke out between the Democrats of Texas and the Republicans in July after the GOP revealed the cards, which prompted dozens of democrats to flee the state in order to block a vote. While leaving for blue states like Illinois, the Democrats were faced with the reaction of the Republicans while the prosecutor general of the Ken Paxton State warned the legislators that they could face the arrest if they did not return.
After an impasse of more than two weeks, the Democrats who fled returned to Texas on Monday, saying that they had at least managed to derail the first special session.
The debate between the Republicans and the Democrats of the State House began early Wednesday morning, some Democrats claiming that the push of President Donald Trump’s cards did not want to remain the files on the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein will be released, according to Houston Chronicle.
President of the House of Representatives of Texas Dustin Burrows Gavels at a house meeting on August 18, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
“At the same time, he demands Abbott Ram through racist cards, he ensures that the Republicans of the Congress block the release of files which could expose his relationship of several decades with a sexual trafficker for children,” said the president of the Democratic Caucus of the Chamber, Gene Wu, according to the point of sale. “This amendment obliges Republicans to choose between their loyalty to Trump and their obligation to exhibit sexual predators.”
Tensions throughout the debate have also increased, with an extinguished between the representative Barbara Gervin-Hawkins and the republican representative Todd Hunter, the author of the Redecoupage bill, according to the Houston Chronicle. While Gervin-Hawkins tried to express concerns concerning the legislative caucus of Texas potentially losing two seats, Hunter explained how party legislators left.
“You want to be fair. Let me finish,” said Hunter, according to the point of sale. “You have opened the questions. You have the ranging, you said you did it. But don’t come to this body and say that we did not include you. You left us for 18 days, and that’s bad.”
In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Abbott said he expected the new cards to go to his office to be signed by the end of the week.
The redistribution cards, making democratic legislators in various states are expressed, the governor of California Gavin Newsom presented the Gerrymandering campaign of his own state in response to Texas on Thursday. The push of Newsom and State Democrats aims to withdraw approximately six Republicans from the delegation of the Chamber of California, transferring the redistribution authority of the Independent Commission to the State legislature.
Texas redistribution cards are expected to go to the State Senate for a vote on August 21 and potentially reach Abbott’s office by the end of the week, according to the New York Times.
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