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This week is on the major vote tap this week in Texas and California Legislative Assembly in a high-station battle between Republican and Democrats on the redistribution of the Congress before the mid-term elections next year.
In Austin, Texas, the GOP -dominated State House of Representatives start the meeting on Wednesday by a second direct special session called by Orthodox Republican Gove Greg Abbott.
At the top of their two-two list, because they return to work, passing a GOP-prepared redistribution map that will currently produce five Republican-fold Congress districts at the cost of the Democrat-controlled seats. Republicans currently control 25 of the 38 American house seats in the state.
“Please pass this map, asap. Thanks Texas,” President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post on Monday.
Relating Battle: Texas Democrats run home while running away
The House’s Texas Speaker Dustin Baroz attacked Gaval as House Austin says a quorum in Texas, a special session with Monday, August 18, 2025. (AP Photo – Eric Gay)
In Texas, the Republican Push, which comes at the insistence of Trump, is part of a comprehensive effort to control the Chamber in 2026 midnight by GOP across the country, when the party traditionally faces political headwind and loses seats.
Trump and his political team are targeting to stop what happened during their first term at the White House, when Democrats returned to hand over the House majority in the mid -term elections of 2018.
Red State enjoys an exaggeration in the Republican Legislature in Texas and the state Senate passed maps of new Congress last week during the first special legislative session.
Texas House Speaker Vrat Runway Dames will be arrested if they try to secret the house over the weekend
But dozens of Democratic State representatives of Texas fled the state to stop a quorum at the Texas House, effectively the Abbott and Republican from proceeding with new maps.
Many Democrats who fled from the state returned on Monday, and converted to the state capital building as the House. He was happy by supporters as soon as he arrived.
Supporters from Returning Texas Democrats entered the house as members at Texas Capital on Austin, Texas, Monday, August 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephen Spillman)))
But the Democrats at the Republican State House are expected to be near the new map when MPs return on Wednesday.
Republican Texas House Speaker Dustin Buroz said on Monday, “I should also be clear where we go from here. We are waiting, and we have quorum. Now it’s time for action.”
During the walkout, Abbott and Republican State Attorney General Kane Pasteton filed a lawsuit from the office to try and remove some absent Democratic MPs from the office. Meanwhile, Gop Sen John Cornin worked to seek FBI’s help in tracking AWol MPs. And Baroz issued civil arrest warrants and promised to pay a fine to MPs per day.
The fleeing Democrats, who set up the camp in the Blue States of Illinois, New York and Massachusetts at the end of the last week, indicated that they would return to Texas after adjournment of the first special session, and after the Democratic village.
The end of the walkout by the Democrats will lead to the passage of the new map, but Texas Democrats fasted that they would fight the new state map in the court and say that the tricks by California are allowing them to pass “baton”.
California unveiled new Congressonal Maps to wipe out five GOP-controlled seats and counter Trump
While the Republican push in Texas does not face constitutional obstacles to promote the existing Congress map, Newsom’s path in California is very complicated.
The governors are making a special election this year, which to obtain voter approval to undo the constitutional amendments that create a non-party redistribution commission. A two-thirds of the majority of votes will be required in the Democrat-added California Legislature to organize the referendum.
Democrats at Sacramento unveiled a bill to proceed with a referendum on Monday.
Robert Rivas, Speaker of the California Legislative Assembly, announced a legislative package to carry forward a biased effort to re -create a map of California Congress at a press conference in Sacramento, California on Monday, August 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Tran Guayen)
Newsom said in a statement on Monday, “People from California and California have been specificly targeted by the Trump administration, and we are not going to sit idle to command Texas and other states.
The legislature with a Democrat-witness is expected to approve the referendum on Thursday. The map that Democrats unveiled at the end of last week will form five and left-free Congress districts at the cost of Republican minority in heavy blue California.
“Here we are open and plain in the mid -term election of 2026 and before casting a vote here. [Trump] Once again trying to get the system rigged, “Newsomm charged on Thursday.
The presence of last week by Newsom, who is considered a possible contender for the nomination of the 2028 Democratic Presidential President, also served as a fundamental kickoff to raise cash in California to sell the essential campaign cash required to sell the revision push kingdom in California.
Democratic village. Gavin, Gavin in California, speaks at Los Angeles on August 14, 2025 during a Congress redistribution program. (AP Photo/Rich Pedronselli)
According to public opinion voting, the non-party redistributed commissions created 15 years ago are popular with most California.
This is why Newsom and California Democratic MPs did not abandon the Commission completely, but temporarily replaced it by the legislature for the next three election cycles.
But former Republican house speaker Kevin Macarthi, who represented a Congress district in Central Valley, California for 17 years, argued in an appearance on Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures” that “when you think they attract these lines, there is no debate. Even there is no input.
McCarthi, who is helping to lead the GOP money raising efforts to combat Newsom and California Democrats, said due to the possibility of this decline, “There will be an election on November 4 that people can actually say,” as they asked to show strong support for the current non-partisan revival commission.
A handful of California Republican state MPs on Tuesday filed a case in the State Supreme Court to prevent proposed redistribution reforms.
And to temporarily replace the commission, other high-profile Republicans are also being opposed. The most visible government is the former government. Arnold Schwarzenegger, The final Republican chose the Governor in California with Democrat-Crachs.
Hollywood movie star and former Republican village. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California opposed the push to temporarily replace the Golden State’s Non-Pedestrian Refining Commission. (Tristar Media/Wirimage)
For a long time, the Hollywood action star says he is gathering to temporarily scrap the state’s Nonpartison Redestricting Commission.
Schwarzenegger wrote in a social media post on Friday, “I am getting ready for the Germandering fight, which has been written in a social media post on Friday, which included a photo of former professional bodybuilding champion.
Schwarzenegger, who wore a T-shirt for fame around the world as the star of the film “The Terminator” four decades ago, was wearing a T-shirt in the photo He said “Eliminate Germandering.”
Schwarzenegger spokesman Daniel Kechel told Politico earlier this month This “he calls evil as evil, and he means that he thinks that taking power from people is really evil for politicians.”
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Cachel said, “He is opposing what Texas is doing, and he is opposing the idea that California will run downwards to do the same thing.”
During his tenure as a governor, Schwarznegger played a role in passing constitutional amendments in California in 2008 and 2010, which took the power to attract state legislative and Congress districts away from politicians and placed it in the hands of an independent commission.