The Action Committee is a constituent of Fair Maps Texas, a nonpartisan coalition of organizations that study redistricting, educate their membership and the public, and provide resources for public participation in redistricting, including training the public and their membership in the use of redistricting tools and providing expertise to the public, organizational members, and lawmakers. [...] Unlawful and discriminatory redistricting in Texas frustrates and impedes the core mission of the Action Committee and the purpose for which the group is organized. [...] Specifically, the court found that the plan diluted the ability of Latino voters in Southwest Texas to elect the candidates of their choice in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. [...] For more than two years before the Texas Legislature steamrolled the challenged maps through the legislative process in September and October 2021, Fair Maps Texas and the members of the Action Committee engaged legislators to urge additional and accessible opportunities for public testimony by Texans, and particularly people of color.10 55. [...] In February of 2021, Fair Maps, along with the Texas AAPI Redistricting Coalition and the Texas Department of Transformation (a nonprofit organization), successfully expanded language access at the Senate’s public input hearings after the committee clerk initially refused to provide an interpreter, thereby enabling members of the Latino and AAPI communities to participate in the redistricting proc.
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