{"id":12497,"date":"2025-08-21T16:20:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-across-us-rip-texas-house-passage-of-new-congressional-lines\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:20:55","slug":"democrats-across-us-rip-texas-house-passage-of-new-congressional-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-across-us-rip-texas-house-passage-of-new-congressional-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats across US rip Texas House passage of new congressional lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic leaders from coast-to-coast ripped Texas Republicans on Wednesday for approving a new Congressional map that gives the GOP an opportunity to gain five additional House seats in next year&#8217;s midterm elections. The map passed along party lines in an 88-52 vote. State senators are expected to consider the measure on Thursday for final approval&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5463017-newsom-hochul-ossoff-texas-gop-map-redistricting\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic leaders from coast-to-coast ripped Texas Republicans on Wednesday for approving a new Congressional map that gives the GOP an opportunity to gain five additional House seats in next year&#8217;s midterm elections. The map passed along party lines in an 88-52 vote. State senators are expected to consider the measure on Thursday for final approval&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497","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=12497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}