Exclusive: Gene Wu joins strategy call with Democratic legislators about fighting GOP-run redistricting beyond Texas

Source: ABC News

August 22, 2025, 4:58 PM


Texas state Rep. Gene Wu, the leader of the Texas House Democrats who fled the state earlier this month to resist Republican-led efforts to redraw Texas's congressional maps, joined a private strategy call on Thursday with Democratic legislative leaders from other Republican-led states that might also redraw their maps, ABC News has learned exclusively.

The call, hosted by the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), the arm of the Democratic Party focused on state legislative races, came the day after the Texas House passed a bill containing new congressional maps that could allow Republicans to flip up to five U.S. House seats.

"I think it's easy to say I kind of didn't expect to be here in this position, starting, you know, when I ran for caucus leader or caucus chair," Wu told leaders from states such as Missouri and Indiana on the call, according to a recording of his remarks obtained by ABC News.

Texas's move to redistrict, which is usually only done once a decade, has set up a redistricting race around the country. Republicans in Indiana, Missouri and Florida have openly discussed the possibility of reworking their maps ahead of the 2026 midterms; the DLCC has called for blue states to consider mid-decade redistricting and says it is working with Democrats in red states on how to push back against GOP-run redistricting.

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