NYT has this story on a possible Democratic walkout of the special legislative session: “Republicans in the Texas Legislature are planning to hold off on voting on measures to address the state’s deadly July 4 flooding until after they approve a partisan redistricting of Texas’ U.S. House boundaries, hoping to thwart Democrats’ efforts to block new House maps, according to two people briefed on the discussions.”

Politico reports on a DCCC polling memo, finding “that 63 percent of likely voters across 22 of Texas’ congressional districts — including 41 percent of Republicans — think the effort to redraw lines in the GOP’s favor is unnecessary.”

The Texas Tribune has this story on the reluctance of Gov. Greg Abbott to engage in mid-decade redistricting — until a conversation with President Trump — as well as the wariness of some Republican members of the state’s congressional delegation.

And Lisa Falkenberg has this column in the Houston Chronicle, suggesting that the Trump-backed re-redistricting is likely to succeed: “This steal will be much easier than Trump’s failed heist of the 2020 presidential election – and potentially even more destabilizing for our wobbly democratic republic. “