Trump’s push for states to redraw political maps and create more GOP-friendly House seats in time for the 2026 election has led to Democrats showing they’re willing to use whatever power they have to win.

But in some of the nation’s biggest Senate races, Democrats are relying on an old strategy of recruiting—and then clearing the field for—long-serving party leaders with whom voters are already familiar.

Former President Obama sat down with Texas Democrats to lay out what is at stake as they protest Trump’s request for state Republicans to gerrymander Texas’s congressional map. Former Special Assistant to President Biden,

Senate Democrats are banking on familiar, older figures in at least three critical races next year, bucking the tide of momentum toward fresh candidates from the next generation.

Lawmakers are now framing their ability to prevent new maps from passing during one special legislative session as a victory. But Republicans are poised to call another.

Democrats have struggled to find effective ways to oppose President Trump, and even some Democratic voters describe the party as weak.

If those conditions are met, the Texas House Democratic Caucus said Democratic lawmakers will return to the Texas House.

Bluestack Strategies founder Maura Gillespie and Fox News contributor Richard Fowler unpack Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's call with former President Barack Obama on 'Fox News Live.'