{"id":11162,"date":"2025-07-10T17:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-to-take-up-congressional-redistricting-in-special-session-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T17:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:20:58","slug":"texas-to-take-up-congressional-redistricting-in-special-session-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-to-take-up-congressional-redistricting-in-special-session-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas to take up congressional redistricting in special session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday the state Legislature will focus on redistricting during a special session later this year, as Republicans look to defend their narrow House majority in 2026. The move could potentially reshape the state&rsquo;s congressional map &mdash; which already heavily favors Republicans&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/09\/congress\/texas-redistricting-2026-midterms-00445561\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday the state Legislature will focus on redistricting during a special session later this year, as Republicans look to defend their narrow House majority in 2026. The move could potentially reshape the state&rsquo;s congressional map &mdash; which already heavily favors Republicans&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}