The map includes redrawn districts that would help defend the Republicans' slim House majority in next year's midterms.

Greg Abbott threatened to remove state House Democrats from office—or charge them with felonies—after dozens of members fled the state Sunday to thwart Republican plans to redraw the state’s congressional map.

Texas Democrats left the state for Chicago in an effort to deny quorum and block Republican efforts to redistrict, gerrymander congressional map.