As bad as the congressional redistricting map is in Texas for Democrats, it could be about to get a lot worse based on a Louisiana case that the U.S. Supreme Court heard Wednesday.

Texas elections, minority voting rights, and possibly the reshaping of legislative districts across the country are in the hands of federal judges.

The Texas GOP has voted to censure five of its own in the Texas House yet stopped short of banning them from the 2026 primary ballot, rejecting an untested provision that some House members say would have violated their constitutional right to appear on the ballot.

They can literally create a permanent one-party rule system without the Voting Rights Act in place–and doing it at the

The proposed amendment to the Texas Constitution would add “persons who are not citizens of the United States” to a list of those ineligible to vote in Texas. The new language would be placed in the constitution’s “Bill of Rights,” a symbolic piece of real estate in a 273-page document that had been amended 530 times since it was ratified in 1876.

The Texas GOP will vote Saturday to possibly bar some state legislators from running in the 2026 primary, despite repeated Texas Supreme Court rulings.