Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows confirmed the plans during a brief session Tuesday morning that marked another failure to meet the required attendance standards to conduct official business because dozens of Democrats have left the state to stymie the GOP’s partisan gerrymandering attempts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

A partisan move by Texas to redraw its congressional maps in the middle of the decade to secure five more GOP seats in the U.S. House set off a clamor to replicate the effort in statehouses

A new poll shows Texas voters are divided on President Donald Trump’s redistricting plans to add five more GOP seats to Congress, according to a new poll. The new Emerson College poll found that 36% of Texas voters supported the proposal to redraw Texas’ congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.