Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort attempt to block redrawn U.S. House maps that President Donald Trump wants before the 2026 midterm elections.

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      3 days ago

      Thank you for posting the map. It’s wild how every city in every state (from what I can tell) is always a blue dot surrounded by a sea of red.

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        3 days ago

        And the blue dots have hundreds of times more people than the red swathes of land. Blue vs. red is essentially urban vs. rural.

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        They’re actually blue dots surrounded by mostly empty land with way way smaller, dispersed red dots.

        But maps like this overrepresent the rural areas