Kayla Guo
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The second session is set to consider the same agenda that stalled in the first, with redistricting and disaster response at the top of the governor’s priorities.
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With Democrats’ walkout over redistricting bringing the House to a standstill, both parties are accusing each other of abandoning Central Texas flood victims.
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States can draw electoral maps for partisan gain, but not if it dilutes the power of voters of color, courts have found.
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The first bill to reach Abbott’s desk this session creates a regulation-cutting state agency under the purview of the governor. It was passed with bipartisan supermajorities.
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The federal agency agreed their monitors would remain outside polling locations and wouldn’t interfere with voting.