Texas Redistricting News

AP via San Francisco Chronicle: Senate Democrats remain in exile even as session to redraw Texas congressional boundaries ends

Texas Senate Democrats remained in self-imposed exile in a New Mexico hotel, sure that they had won this round in a bitter fight to stop a Republican redistricting plan -- but certain that they would face another.

Scripps Howard via Harlingen Valley Morning Star: Poll: Texans divided over redrawing congressional districts

Texans are divided over whether state lawmakers should redraw congressional districts, but 62 percent oppose the Democrats leaving Texas to kill redistricting efforts, according to The Scripps Howard Texas Poll.

SAEN: Another chapter in remap battle ends today

They are, however, awaiting final word from the Department of Justice over a planned meeting in Washington later this week to lay out their opposition to the redistricting plan.

AAS: Ads to feature absent Texans

Moveon.org, an activist group founded in 1998 by two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, has raised almost $1 million via the Internet and within days will launch a national ad campaign featuring the Texas senators, said Glenn Smith, spokesman for the Internet group.