Texas and California compete on the Rediscussion Battles of the Congress

Major votes are in the barrel this week in the legislatures of Texas and California in the battle with high issues between the Republicans and the Democrats for the redistribution of the Congress before the mid-term elections next year.

In Austin, Texas, the House of Representatives of the State dominated by the GOP resumed the meeting on Wednesday in the middle of a second consecutive special session called by the conservative republican governor Greg Abbott.

At the top of their task list, while returning to work, he passes a redistribution card designed by the GOP which would create up to five districts of the Republican Congress to the detriment of the seats currently controlled by the Democrats. Republicans currently control 25 of the 38 seats in the American American house.

“Please pass this card as soon as possible. Thank you to Texas,” President Donald Trump wrote in an article on social networks on Monday.

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The president of Texas of the Dustin Burrows Chamber strikes the hammer while the house calls a special session with a quorum, Monday, August 18, 2025, in Austin. (APO PHOTO – Eric Gay)

The republican thrust in Texas, which comes at the request of Trump, is part of a wider effort of the GOP across the country to fill their majority at the thin house like the razor to keep control of the mid-term room in 2026, when the power party traditionally faces a political head and loses seats.

Trump and his political team aim to prevent what happened during his first mandate in the White House, when the Democrats returned to seize the majority of the Chamber in the 2018 mid-term elections.

The republicans of the Red State of Texas enjoy a supermajority in the Legislative Assembly and the State Senate adopted the new Congress cards last week, during the first special legislative session.

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But dozens of representatives of the Democratic State of Texas fled the state to prevent a quorum in the Texas Chamber, effectively preventing Abbott and the Republicans from advancing with new cards.

Many Democrats who had fled the state returned on Monday and went to the State Capitol building while the room met. They were applauded by supporters when they arrived.

Supporters of the song of the Democrats of Texas back as the members entered the chamber at the Capitole in Austin, Monday, August 18, 2025. (AP photo / Stephen Spillman)

But with the Republicans exceeding the Democrats 88-62 at the State House, the new cards should pass when the legislators return on Wednesday.

“Let me be also clear on where we are going from here. We have finished waiting, and we have the quorum. It is now time for action,” the republican president of Texas House Dustin Burrows said on Monday.

During the raising, Abbott and the republican attorney general Ken Paxton continued to try to withdraw some of the democratic legislators absent from the office. Meanwhile, GOP Senator John Cornyn worked to get the FBI help to find AWOL legislators. And Burrows issued civil arrest warrants and also committed to fine $ 500 a day legislators.

The fleeing democrats, which created a camp in the Bleus States of Illinois, New York and Massachusetts, at the end of last week, pointed out that they would return to Texas after the adjournment of the first special session, and after the Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and other Democrats of California, revealed at mid-term of the push of the push and the Republicans.

The end of the democrats by the Democrats will lead to the passage of new cards, but the Democrats of Texas swear that they will fight the new state cards in court and say that the movements of California allow them to pass “the stick”.

California unveils the new Congress cards to destroy five seats controlled by the GOP and counter Trump

While the republican push in Texas to upset the current cards of the congress does not face the constitutional constraints, the Newsom path in California is much more complicated.

The governor is moving to organize a special election this year, to obtain the approval of the voters to cancel the constitutional amendments that created the non -partisan redistribution committee. A two -thirds majority vote in the Californian legislature dominated by the Democrats would be necessary to hold the referendum.

The Sacramento Democrats unveiled a bill on Monday to move forward with the referendum.

The president of the California assembly, Robert Rivas, announces a legislative set to advance a partisan effort to redraw the card of the State Congress during a press conference on Monday, August 18, 2025 in Sacramento. (AP photo / Tran nguyen)

“California and Californians have been targeted only by the Trump administration, and we are not going to remain inactive while they order in Texas and other states to fuel the next elections to keep power – pursuing more extreme and unpopular policies,” Newsom said in a statement.

The legislature dominated by the Democrats should approve the referendum on Thursday. The cards that the Democrats unveiled at the end of last week would create up to five other districts of the left congress at the expense of the Republican minority in highly blue California.

“Here, we are open and simple before a vote is expressed in the mid-term elections of 2026 and here (Trump) tries once again to fake the system,” Newsom accused Thursday.

The appearance of last week by Newsom, which is considered a probable competitor for the democratic presidential appointment of 2028, also served as a start -up of fundraising to increase the massive quantities of the campaign necessary to sell the redistribution of state thrust in California.

California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a congress redistribution event on August 14, 2025 in Los Angeles. (AP photo / Rich Pedroncelli)

The non -partisan redistribution commission, created over 15 years ago, remains popular with most Californians, according to the survey of public opinion.

This is why Newsom and the Democratic legislators of California promise not to completely remove the commission, but rather temporarily replacing it by the Legislative Assembly for the next three electoral cycles.

But the former president of the republican chamber, Kevin McCarthy, who represented a district of the Congress in the California central valley for 17 years, argued in an appearance in “Sunday Morning Futures” of Fox News that “when you think of the way in which they have drawn these lines, there was no audition. There is no debate. California has no traction.

McCarthy, which helps direct the GOP fund collection effort to counter the Democrats of Newsom and California before the probable referendum this fall, said that “November 4 will be the election that people could really have their say”, as he highlighted the surveys showing solid support for the current non -partisan redistribing commission.

The republican leader of the Assembly James Gallagher is expressed in opposition to the plan of the Democrats to advance a partisan effort to redraw the map of the Californian congress during a press conference on Monday, August 18, 2025, in Sacramento, California. (AP photo / Tran nguyen)

A handful of California republican state legislators took legal action on Tuesday before the Supreme Court of the State to stop the proposed redistribution reform.

The trial was filed as an election committee of the California Assembly held on the push of the referendum on Tuesday. GOP legislators within the Committee and the Republicans who submitted comments to the panel have greatly criticized the effort to redepartmentalize the Democrats.

The State Republican Party, which welcomed the trial press conference, said that “the Californians voted to put the redistribution in the hands of the people, not politicians. What the Democrats are doing is a blatant takeover, and the Republican Party of California will fight it with each occasion to protect the votes of voters.”.

“Their plan would tear the communities, would reduce the fact of silencing the contributions of the public and would erase the transparency that the voters demanded when they created the redistocking commission of citizens,” added Corrin Rankin, president of the Republican Party of California, in a statement at Fox News.

The pressure to temporarily replace the Commission is also opposed by other high -level Republicans. Among the most visible, there is the former governor. Arnold Schwarzenegger, The latest Republican elected Governor in California dominated by Democrats.

The Hollywood film star and former republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in California opposes the thrust to temporarily replace the non -partisan redistage commission of the Golden State. (Tristar Media / Wireimage)

The longtime star of the Hollywood action says that he is mobilizing to oppose the push of Newsom to temporarily eliminate the non -partisan redistigation commission.

“I am preparing for the battle of the Gerrymandering,” wrote Schwarzenegger in an article on social networks on Friday, which included a photo of the former professional bodybuilding champion of the bodysuits lifting weights.

Schwarzenegger, who has become world famous as a star of the film “The Terminator” four decades, wore a t-shirt in the photo That said “finish Gerrymandering”.

Schwarzenegger spokesperson Daniel Ketchell said Politico at the beginning of the month That “he calls the evil of Gerrymandering, and he means it. He thinks it is really bad for politicians to take the power of people”.

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“It is opposed to what Texas does, and it is opposed to the idea that California would go down to do the same thing,” added Ketchell.

Schwarzenegger, during his governor mandate, played a main role in the adoption of constitutional amendments in California in 2008 and 2010 which took power to draw the legislative districts and the Congress of the States of politicians and placed it in the hands of an independent commission.