Texas House Democrats are expected to return to the Legislature on Monday after denying a quorum for two weeks.

The move will allow Republicans to move forward with their plan to redraw Texas' congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

A second special session that has made approving the map a priority started Friday, as soon as the first one ended.

According to data reported by Voting Rights Lab, roughly 342,000 mail-in ballots were cast in Texas in 2024 compared to nearly 1 million mail-in ballots cast in 2020.

The Texas Senate could move the GOP’s redistricting plan forward in the next few days after the redistricting panel advanced the map on Sunday afternoon.

A group of Texas House Democrats have been staying in suburban Chicago for nearly two weeks to block Republican plans to redraw the Texas congressional map before next year's midterm election.

SAN ANTONIO – The state senate has already pushed another THC ban attempt past its first legislative hurdle, after Gov. Greg Abbott called a second special session Friday.

A second special session that has made approving the map a priority started Friday, shortly after the first one ended.

Dr. Maria C. Gonzalez and Dr. David Mazella, both associate professors of English at UH, are forming a faculty-led entity to replace UH's Faculty Senate, which the university dismantled due to its implementation of Senate Bill 37 in late July.