Texas’ redistricting effort resulted in a new congressional map that potentially gives Republicans five new House seats ahead of the midterms.
Congressional leaders are meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in a last-ditch effort to avoid a shutdown.
Adelita Grijalva won the seat in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District that was previously held by her father before he died earlier this year.
Gov. Greg Abbott has stated his intent to call as many special legislative sessions as it takes to finalize Texas’ redistricting effort.
Gov. Abbott also called for the arrest of the Texas Democrats who fled the state to prevent a vote on a new electoral map from moving forward.
Texas Democrats fled the state on Sunday to stall a vote on a new electoral map that would add five new GOP seats in the House of Representatives.
Trump requested that Texas Governor Greg Abbott order a new round of redistricting in an effort to protect the Republican House majority.Â
Robert Smalls escaped slavery by commandeering a Confederate ship and was the first Black man to serve in South Carolina’s state legislature.
Democrat Shawn Harris is facing a formidable challenge to unseat the controversial Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Mazi Melesa Pilip is also a pro-Israel Orthodox Jew who served in the IDF and a county legislator who ran on a Republican ticket on Long Island despite her opposite political affiliation.
Barbara Lee voted to expel George Santos from Congress, unlike two House Democrats who are also running for U.S. Senate in California.
Here are three of the most revealing elements of the ongoing speaker kerfuffle, and how political science can help people understand them.
