Texas Republicans, at the behest of President Donald Trump, redrew the state’s congressional map this summer to eliminate Houston’s largest Black district — the 9th, in south Houston — and pack many of its residents into the city’s other historically Black-led district, the 18th.

Race was at the center of the redistricting effort throughout. The Trump administration’s Justice Department set the process in motion when it sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott alleging that race was illegally used as a factor in the current congressional maps drawn just four years ago.