The Texas Senate on Saturday approved new congressional maps drawn to help Republicans win as many as five more House seats in next year’s midterm elections.

Republican lawmakers are pursuing the unusual mid-decade redistricting plan amid pressure from President Donald Trump to protect the GOP’s slim majority in the U.S. House.

After a long day of debate, the Texas House of Representatives passed GOP-favored congressional maps Wednesday evening that could flip five Democratic districts.

Urine for a long night. Texas Democratic state Sen. Carol Alvarado announced plans Friday to filibuster a Republican-led redistricting bill — and while she’s holding the floor, she won’t be holding it in.

The measure is a response to the dozens of children who died at Camp Mystic and other youth camps in the Texas Hill Country during the July 4 flood.

Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon slammed House Republicans on Wednesday for not doing an effective job of selling the president’s “big, beautiful” law of tax and spending

Updated at 9:45 p.m. A Republican bill to ban ranked choice voting in the state of Michigan, which was introduced in the House of Representatives last month and rammed through committee on Tuesday after just one hearing,