{"id":3002,"date":"2025-08-26T22:18:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/08\/because-of-gov-abbotts-complacency-a-rigged-congressional-map-is-likely-to-gain-the-texas-houses-approval-today\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:18:29","slug":"because-of-gov-abbotts-complacency-a-rigged-congressional-map-is-likely-to-gain-the-texas-houses-approval-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3002","title":{"rendered":"Because of Gov. Abbott\u2019s Complacency, a Rigged Congressional Map is Likely to Gain the Texas House\u2019s Approval Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today, the Texas House of Representatives is expected to approve a congressional redistricting map demanded by President Trump, putting the measure on a fast track to approval in the state Senate as soon as Thursday before heading to Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump gerrymander push is authoritarian, anti-democratic, and yet another tell of a wannabe dictator. We watch Texas today with the clear understanding that this is not an isolated push, but the beginning of a national power grab across multiple states to try and impact the 2026 midterm. The immediate impacts in Texas \u2013 depriving voters of fair representation, and the disparate impact on voters of color, as districts with majority or large populations of voters of color are broken up \u2013 will be mirrored throughout the nation. We cannot allow this to proceed. And if needed, California and other states must make offsetting gerrymanders of their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrian Shelley, Texas director of Public Citizen, issued the following statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGov. Abbott and Republicans in the Texas Legislature abandoned their constituents because they didn\u2019t dare to say \u2018No\u2019 to President Trump. What will President Trump demand from Abbott and his fellow Republicans next? President Trump will do just about anything to hold onto power and evade accountability, even if it means asking Texas Republicans to move mountains \u2013 and rig congressional district lines \u2013 to make it happen. Republicans will have to answer for the betrayal of taking away the voting power of entire communities in Texas and gifting it on a golden platter to a corrupt President Trump in Washington, D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Texas House of Representatives is expected to approve a congressional redistricting map demanded by President Trump, putting the measure on a fast track to approval in the state Senate as soon as Thursday before heading to Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s desk. Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement: \u201cThe Trump gerrymander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}