California already has an overwhelmingly Democratic delegation in Congress. Gov. Newsom’s plan could give his party five more seats and offset a Texas gerrymander.

As Texas hurtles toward a flashpoint on a GOP effort to redraw congressional districts, California Democrats are answering with a plan of their own.

Santa Rosa really is the key for Northern California, because it's such a big population base,’ Assemblymember Chris Rogers said.

Republicans can move ahead with redrawing Texas’ congressional districts now that Democratic lawmakers have returned to the state. Efforts to thwart President Donald Trump’s push to tilt the political map for next year’s midterm elections in his favor shifted to California.

The proposed California map, unveiled Friday, was drawn by congressional Democrats with input from those in the state legislature.

Gov. Newsom is working to determine the true motives behind Trump's decision to deploy federal agents outside the governor's news conference in Little Tokyo this past week.

Braun—who Trump relegated to the kids’ table during his star-studded inauguration—has yet to make a decision on the matter, but his counterpart in Texas, Greg Abbott, is all in on the plan, with a special redistricting session planned for this week that could net the GOP five more House seats.