The major parties' redistricting battle escalated this week, with lawmakers in the country's two most populous states each taking a notable step toward a new congressional map.

Texas redistricting standoff: Texas Democrats are staying away from the state to prevent a vote on a map that would split the Austin, TX district.

Trump said he wants a "simple redrawing" of Texas' congressional map — it would enable Republicans to pick up five seats.

California Democrats are rushing to schedule an election to remake U.S. House districts to counter plans to boost Republican seats in Texas.

The House map aims to give Republicans five more pickup opportunities, impacting lawmakers in the Austin, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Rio Grande Valley areas. The move in the Texas Senate ...

The senator said the agency had agreed to help locate Democratic state legislators who departed to try to block a vote on congressional maps. Democrats said federal law enforcement was being misused.

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Senate Bill 4 is the same map as the one the House proposed, which includes significant changes for voters in Austin, Houston, North Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley.

Why have the Rio Grande Valley's lawmakers chosen to stay while Democrats flee Texas? More than 50 Democratic lawmakers fled the state earlier this week, encamping to Illinois, Boston and New York ...

Why most Rio Grande Valley Dems stayed as others fled Texas over redistricting “If that were true that South Texas was shifting red, they would not need to chop up these lines." ...

Cartographers have spent half a millennium tracing the development of what is now Texas—and changed our history along the way.