Attorney General Ken Paxton has successfully protected Texas’ redistricted congressional map, helping ensure the state will remain red.
In late August, Gov. Greg Abbott signed the ‘Big Beautiful Map,’ a redistricting plan for the 2026 elections that will likely add five new Republican-opportunity congressional districts.
Shortly after it was signed, left-wing activist groups and other Texas residents filed a suit against the state, saying that the new map is racially motivated to eradicate majority-minority districts. The suit also claimed that the state was intentionally discriminating against minority groups.
After the suit was filed on behalf of national Democrats and their blatant lies about the new map, a federal court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, saying that the State was not allowed to use the new map because “substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map.”
Soon after the three-judge panel in El Paso issued a preliminary injunction preventing the map from going into effect for the 2026 election, Paxton filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the ruling.
In early December, SCOTUS granted Paxton’s appeal to enforce the congressional map while litigation continues, noting that blocking the map would disrupt 2026 candidate filings, campaigns, and elections.
In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS granted interim relief to the state, saying that the district court “committed at least two serious errors.” The ruling states that the district court “failed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by construing ambiguous and circumstantial evidence against the legislature,” and that they “failed to dispositive a near-dispositive adverse interference against respondents even though they did not produce a viable alternative map that met the State’s avowedly partisan goals.”
Paxton wrote in a press release that his office will continue to defend the congressional map against rogue Democrats and their attempts to undermine it.
“In the face of Democrats’ attempt to abuse the judicial system to steal the U.S. House, I have defended Texas’s fundamental right to draw a map that ensures we are represented by Republicans. The Big Beautiful Map will be in effect for 2026,” said Paxton. “Texas is paving the way as we take our country back, district by district, state by state. This map reflects the political climate of our state and is a massive win for Texas and every conservative who is tired of watching the left try to upend the political system with bogus lawsuits.”
The filing deadline for Texas’ elections was December 8.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.