As you’ve no doubt heard, Governor Greg Abbott is calling the Texas Legislature back in session, and he has prioritized redrawing Texas’ congressional map.  

At a time when Texans are in the middle of an ongoing tragedy in the Texas Hill Country, Governor Abbott and Texas Republicans are preparing to save their own power when they should be preparing to save Texans from the next natural disaster.

Governor Abbott and Texas Republicans have utterly collapsed to pressure from President Trump, and they have surrendered Texas to political operatives from Washington, trading and dividing their constituents like commodities.  They are prioritizing helping out-of-state political operatives abuse the voting rights and distort the political will of Texans to eliminate seats now held by Democratic representatives so that national Republicans can try to hold on to the majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. 

This effort is not about any one member or any one district—it is an attack on the citizens of Texas, the voters of Texas and their right and their ability to elect people to represent them in Washington.  This effort threatens the very principle that people deserve to have their say in our democratic system.  In Texas, Republican partisan gerrymandering is racial gerrymandering.  And Texans already suffer from one of the most racially gerrymandered congressional maps in the country. 

Texas is a cautionary tale of what’s to come when an out-of-control President and administration demand loyalty to them rather than to the people and places that Republicans have been elected to represent.

The House of Representatives hangs in the balance.  In 2022, the House majority was decided by five seats. Last year, it was just three seats.  When the election results are this close, it’s easy to see how Republicans stealing three or four seats in Texas could tip control of the Congressional majority.

Together, we will fight this redistricting effort.  We will fight it in the halls of Congress.  We will fight it in the courts.  And we will fight it in our communities across Texas.  

And we will have friends in the fight with us—from now to next November and beyond.  I am working closely with partners to make sure that we bring this fight to ballot boxes across Texas.  But this fight is about more than the midterms, more than the map, it is about making real the founding promise of this country—that we, the people, all the people, not just the privileged few—have the right and the ability to have a say in our government.

You are a critical part of this effort.  We will share more opportunities to make your voice heard on this issue in the coming days.  If you want to help today, please consider making a contribution that we can use to fight back.

Together, we can do anything,