(1 Aug 2025)
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Austin, Texas – 1 August 2025
1. Tilt from top to bottom of protesters in the Capitol Rotunda, ahead of a public hearing on congressional redistricting in Austin, Texas.
2. SOUNDBITES (English) US Rep. Greg Casar, (D) Austin:
"My constituents don’t want Donald Trump picking their politician. So that’s why Donald Trump has come in and tried to rig the lines around Austin. He’s chopped up parts of Austin all the way down to Port Aransas. He’s chopped up other parts of Boston, sending them all the out to Midland, Odessa. It’s an eight-hour drive from Midland down to port Aransas, that makes no sense. But the reason Trump is chopping up outside parts of Austin and then merging. Me and Doggett’s districts together is because he wants to silence the voices of the voters. This isn’t about any one of us in Congress. What Trump is trying to do is silence voting rights and protect his numbers in Congress while breaking the Voting Rights Act."
3. Mid of protesters dispersing the Capitol Rotunda, ahead of a public hearing on congressional redistricting in Austin, Texas.
4. SOUNDBITES (English) US Rep. Greg Casar, (D) Austin:
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice specifically said that they wanted to get rid of districts represented by what they call coalitions, that is, Hispanic and Black voters. And so they’ve really targeted these districts that were established by Martin Luther King’s Voting Rights Act. He wants to get of those loud voices in Congress that are willing to stand up to Donald Trump. And I’m not going to let him."
5. Right to left pan of protesters dispersing the Capitol Rotunda, ahead of a public hearing on congressional redistricting in Austin, Texas.
6. SOUNDBITES (English) Rick Levy, President, Texas AFL-CIO:
"That these politicians are bending their knees to Donald Trump and carving up our state like it’s some video game. My other reaction is inspiration from the thousands of Texans that have come here to say, hell, no, we’re not going to let that happen on our watch."
7. Various of public hearings on congressional redistricting in Austin, Texas.
STORYLINE:
Democratic lawmakers tried to build a case Friday that Republicans in Texas have engineered a rushed and unfair process for redrawing the state’s congressional districts in response to a push by President Donald Trump to win more GOP seats that Democrats fear will spread to other states.
Democrats in the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature delayed the start of public testimony during a hearing of a state House Committee on Redistricting by peppering its chair with pointed questions about how quickly GOP lawmakers planned to move and whether the public is getting enough of an opportunity to weigh in. The Republican proposal would give the GOP five more winnable seats in next year’s elections, which would make it easier for the party to keep its slim U.S. House majority.
Chair Cody Vasut told the committee that he expected it to vote later Friday or Saturday on the bill, which Republicans unveiled Wednesday. He said he expected the full state House to debate the measure Tuesday.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott called the Legislature into a 30-day special session and put congressional redistricting on the agenda after Trump called for Texas to redraw lines that Republicans approved in 2021. Republicans hold 25 of the state’s seats, to 13 for Democrats, and the plan would create 30 districts that Trump would have carried by at least 10 percentage points had they been in place in 2024.
GOP author acknowledges partisan motives
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