According to KVUE, the 27-year-old Martin was arrested after Texas State Rep. Cody Vasut (R-Angleton) took offense to Martin’s disruption of the hearing by going over his allotted time at the House Redistricting Committee hearing and told the sergeant-at-arms to arrest Martin.

The legislature is meeting in special session to draft plans that could give the party five more seats in Congress.

As the Texas Legislature plans to redraw congressional maps, the governors of California and Illinois may devise new borders before the 2026 elections.

Isaiah Martin, who spent a day in jail, later confirmed the charges were dropped and said he'd “do it again for the people of Texas"

Texas Republicans want to redraw the state's congressional districts to gain an advantage in next year's election. U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., says Democrats must counter or become complicit.

Texas’ elected officials, including Governor Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and the state House speaker, Dustin Burrows, can fall in line with the president or not; they can place party loyalty above Texas voters or do the right thing. It is their choice — they don’t have to be complicit.

Texas Republicans launched a high-risk, high-reward redrawing of the state's 38 congressional districts, a move championed by President Donald Trump to protect the party's narrow House majority in next year's midterm elections.

Trump won Ohio with 55% of the vote, but Republican politicians want to gerrymander 80% of the state’s U.S. House districts for themselves.

Gov. Gavin Newsom says California should redraw its congressional maps ahead of 2026 to ‘put a stake in the heart’ of Trump’s Texas redistricting plan.