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Daily Dispatch 8/21/25: Texas House GOP Greenlights Trump Takeover of Texas, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Texas House Republicans, surprising nobody, approved the new congressional map ordered by Donald Trump to artificially create five new Republican U.S. House seats yesterday: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8z4nj17dnoIn response, lawmakers in California will likely vote today on a package of bills to put the option of redistricting that seat for Democratic advantage to their voters in November: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/redistricting-california-texas.htmlOn the ground, the new map represents a dismembering of…
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