Texas Republicans passed the map early on Saturday morning after a failed filibuster attempt from Democrats.
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The Texas Senate voted 18-11 along party lines to approve the bill around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, just days after the Texas House of Representatives approved the map on a similar 88-52 party line vote.
The bill will now go to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk to sign into law, and the governor has previously expressed support for the redistricting effort.
“The One Big Beautiful Map has passed the Senate,” Abbott said in a statement posted on social media, decrying the Democrats’ “petty stunts” and stating he would sign it into law.
The redrawn districts could help Republicans pick up as many as five more House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
State Sen. Phil King, a Republican who sponsored the bill, has repeatedly defended the new map as a means to improve “political performance” for his party, and claimed they had “no reason to look at racial data.”
Democrats are promising to further challenge the new map, with Rep. Gene Wu, the chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, insisting they are “not done fighting” and that the “next step is the courts.
