With one week until Texas candidates must file their campaign paperwork, some races remain up in the air and are likely to prompt decisions to be made right up to the 6 p.m. deadline on Monday, Dec. 8.

Democrats in North Texas are waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to take further action after Justice Samuel Alito filed an administrative stay in the ongoing Texas redistricting case, which temporarily reinstated the 2025 Congressional maps approved by Republicans this summer that could give them an extra five seats.

Alito's stay reinstates GOP-backed maps — for now

Alito's stay set aside the Nov. 18 ruling by two federal judges in El Paso who blocked the 2025 maps, saying Texas Republicans illegally racially gerrymandered the districts and that the maps approved in 2021 would stay in

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