CHICAGO — Texas House Democrats who left their state to prevent Republicans from passing redistricting maps will take part in nationwide “Fight the Trump takeover” protest on Saturday.

Proposed new congressional maps in California could help Democrats flip five Republican seats and bolster around five Democratic incumbents in toss-up districts.

California Democrats on Friday released their redistricting proposal, aiming to produce up to five additional Democratic seats in the US House in response to Texas Republicans’ mid-decade redrawing of lines at the behest of President Donald Trump.

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

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. Meghan Hays and Matthew Dowd discuss this new wrinkle in a growing national redistricting battle and reporting Obama called New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday called a second special session to push through a redrawing of congressional maps to secure up to five more Republican seats in the US House.

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.

The plan would help Democrats flip five seats, offsetting the gains Republicans hope to make by redrawing maps in Texas.

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.'