Trump-Backed Texas Map BLOCKED: Judges Say GOP Crossed a Racial Line

MAJOR BREAKING: Federal court kills gerrymandered Texas congressional map and slams Republicans for racial gerrymandering — sounding the death knell for Trump’s dream of stealing the 2026 midterm elections.

In a massive blow to Donald Trump’s national redistricting scheme, a panel of federal judges just blocked Texas Republicans from using their brand-new, GOP-favored congressional map — ruling that it was not just political dirty trickery, but an outright racial gerrymander.

Yes, you read that right: A federal court — including a judge appointed by Trump himself — just ruled that the Texas GOP drew its new districts in a way that was so blatantly discriminatory it couldn’t even survive until 2026.

The panel’s 2–1 ruling forces Texas to throw out the map Republicans rammed through earlier this year, a map engineered to give them up to FIVE new House seats in 2026. Five seats that could have helped save a deeply unpopular president from massive losses in a midterm cycle already shaping up to be a political hurricane for the GOP.

Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, delivered the gut punch. He wrote that while politics obviously played a role, what Republicans did went far beyond normal partisan games, saying that “substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”

Let’s pause for a moment. A Trump-appointed federal judge just accused Texas Republicans of racial gerrymandering. Not “maybe,” not “sort of,” not “technically questionable.” He said the evidence is substantial.

This wasn’t about politics. It was about power — and the willingness of the Texas GOP, backed by Trump and the White House, to shred communities of color to manufacture extra seats in Congress.

And it gets even better.

The ruling forces Texas to revert to its previous congressional lines, instantly blowing up Republican dreams of an easy House majority boost. Even worse for them, it comes after they launched a national redistricting blitz that triggered a counteroffensive from California Democrats. With the California redistricting approved by the state’s voters, Trump’s whole strategy is looking like a collapsing house of cards.

Of course, Gov. Greg Abbott and state Republicans are already scrambling for the next move, preparing to beg the Supreme Court to intervene. But the damage is done: their plot has been exposed in federal court, and the ruling stands as a brutal, documented indictment of their tactics.

The bottom line is the Texas GOP didn’t just try to tilt the playing field — they tried to burn the rule book and redraw it along racial lines. And even Trump’s own judges said “Absolutely not.”

This isn’t just a legal setback for Republicans. It’s a national embarrassment. It’s a massive victory for voting rights. And it’s yet another reminder that when Trump and his allies try to rig democracy, the courts — sometimes even their own courts — are still capable of saying “No. Not this time.”

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