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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAhead of the redistricting hearing, Congressman Marc Veasey called President Donald Trump “a power hungry, corrupt creature.”\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAhead of the redistricting hearing, Congressman Marc Veasey called President Donald Trump “a power hungry, corrupt creature.”\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Emma Ruby<\/p>\n
A federal court decision overturning the congressional map drawn and approved by Republicans<\/a> over the summer couldn\u2019t have come at a better time for the Dallas-area Democrats hoping to run for another term next fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n The filing period for the 2026 election ends in only 19 days, but North Texas incumbents Marc Veasey, Jasmine Crockett and Julie Johnson have all held off from filing in hopes that a court would strike down the map that sliced and diced their historically blue districts. That hope was realized Tuesday, when a three-judge panel ruled that the congressional maps \u2014 redrawn at the behest of President Donald Trump to secure Republicans an additional five seats in Congress after the midterm elections \u2014 were illegally racially gerrymandered.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n The map approved by Republicans would have combined the Democratic constituencies from Johnson\u2019s district, CD-32, with those from Veasey\u2019s district, CD-33, pitting the two incumbents against each other while flipping CD-32 red. When the map was being debated in the state House, Democrat Rep. Cassandra Garcia Hernandez remarked that CD-32 \u00a0\u2014 which includes parts of Plano, Richardson and Balch Springs under the map approved in 2021\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 had been turned into a \u201c175-mile fajita strip\u201d that stretched<\/a> from Richardson to (nearly) the Louisiana border.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was a judge appointed by Trump who ultimately ruled that next year\u2019s election \u201cshall proceed under the map that the Texas Legislature enacted in 2021\u201d in an opinion that Congresswoman Johnson believes was \u201cunequivocal, strong and convincing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhen news happens, Dallas Observer is there \u2014 <\/strong> \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re aiming to raise $30,000 by December 31, so we can continue covering what matters most to you. If the\u00a0Dallas Observer\u00a0matters to you, please take action and contribute today, so when news happens, our reporters can be there.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really happy to see the court render such a strong opinion,\u201d Johnson told the Observer. \u201cThose of us in the Democratic delegation, we\u2019ve been remarkably hopeful that the court was going to come to this conclusion. \u2026 I think that\u2019s why you see only Al Green [has] actually filed ahead of time in a different district. The rest of us were waiting on the court to rule because we were confident that these maps were going to get overturned.\u201d<\/p>\n Now that a federal court has maintained that Johnson\u2019s district will remain in North Texas, she said she plans to file for reelection in search of a second term in Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n In an interview with the Texas Tribune,<\/a> Veasey offered a similar sentiment to Johnson, stating that he\u2019d urged his colleagues to \u201cstay calm\u201d because the situation \u201cfelt exactly like 2011\u201d when a panel of judges overturned the Texas Legislature\u2019s maps, ultimately leading to the drawing of Veasey\u2019s district.\u00a0<\/p>\n Crockett, on the other hand, declined to say whether she will run for reelection. Although the redrawn map actually strengthened the Democratic support in her district, CD-30, there has been speculation that she will run for Senate instead.<\/a> Crockett told the Tribune that she \u201cstill has some evaluations to make\u201d before filing for either seat.<\/p>\n \u2018Chaos and Uncertainty\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n As Democrats celebrate Tuesday\u2019s ruling, uncertainty still lingers. Luke Warford, founder of the Agave Democratic Infrastructure Fund political action committee, lamented that while the redistricting back-and-forth has been confusing for potential candidates, it\u2019s likely been even more confusing for the voters who have found themselves yanked between congressional districts.\u00a0 <\/p>\n \u201cJust imagine how you\u2019d feel if you worked for Julie\u2019s [campaign], and you work real hard and you block walked and phone banked and then, boop, now you\u2019re in Keith Self\u2019s [district],\u201d Darrel Evans, a communications chair with the Collin County Democratic Party,<\/a> told the Observer back in July. \u201cYou just feel so disenfranchised.\u201d<\/p>\n With just over two weeks left for candidates to file for the November 2026 election, Warford said some politicians have found themselves in the position of running a race \u201cbased on the assumption that these maps were going to hold.\u201d Now, those districts no longer exist; as long as the federal court\u2019s ruling isn\u2019t overturned, that is.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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