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What Happened in 20 18?
The net effect of redistricting is to reduce the overall number of competitive seats. In texas, republicans propose a map that essentially moves all nine of their vulnerable incumbents into much more solid republican districts by purging as many democrats and minority voters from those districts possible. So that isn't nacessarily a seat gain for republicans, but it's a game of keep away, right from the democrats.