Beto O'Rourke said Democrats should be "ruthlessly focused on winning power" through their own redistricting in California as Texas Republicans began a special session.

For those not in the know, Texas is about to undergo a seismic redistricting process, where state lawmakers will get together to redraw Texas' 38 congressional districts. It's a process that is required by law to happen every decade, when the census numbers decide how many seats in Congress a state gets and how people should be crammed into them.

Republican Eric Flores launched a campaign on Monday to oust Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) and flip Texas’s 34th Congressional District red. Flores, an Army veteran and lawyer from Mission, announced his bid to challenge Gonzalez as Republicans in the state’s GOP-controlled state legislature eye redistricting efforts,

Texas lawmakers are meeting in a special session to debate redistricting, abortion pills, flood relief and more amid growing partisan tensions.

GOP lawmakers are holding legislative response to the deadly Texas Hill Country flooding hostage to attempt to block Democrats from breaking quorum over proposed redistricting in efforts to get the Trump-backed initiative to the finish line during the special session.

Why is this about the Texas Republicans' redistricting gambit a story with importance far beyond the Lone Star State? Several reasons, actually.

Texas Democrats are considering their options to block a Republican-led effort to redraw the state's congressional maps during a special session that began Monday.