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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
Behind the scenes, however, Johnson’s decision underscores the House GOP’s deep divisions and its increasing deference to Donald Trump.Â
Texas’s attempt at a mid-decade redistricting is highly unusual and comes as President Trump seeks to protect the Republican House majority.Â
While Trump turns 1600 Pennsylvania Ave into a pay-per-view party palace, Black, Brown, and poor folks are being left to fend for themselves.
The North Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee loaded the Juneteenth docket with bills designed to kill DEI initiatives and put guns in private schools. You read that right, folks.Â
Texas lawmakers have taken a significant step toward the potential passage of Senate Bill 2, a measure that would create a statewide school voucher program.
The bill's future in the Senate proves to be another challenge as the threat of a GOP-led filibuster could again impede progress for Black communities targeted with repeated attacks against their voting rights.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of her committee assignments on Thursday, following a contentious battle between Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
Fifty-four percent of Democrats and 43 percent of Republicans said the stimulus checks aren’t enough, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll.
Earlier Friday, Senate Republicans joined with the Democratic majority to pass a bill that will keep the government running past the Monday deadline, despite the antics of Tea Party extremist Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. The Senate voted 79-19, joined by 25 Republicans despite rather prickly opposition to Obamacare. SEE ALSO: No Surprise! Republicans Are […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday voted to freeze the wages of federal workers for a third straight year and put members of Congress on record as opposing a boost in their $174,000 annual salaries. SEE ALSO: Rick Santorum’s Trisomy18 Baby Republican supporters said their measure, which would freeze federal worker wages through 2013, […]