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“Texas has 38 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
Official federal and Texas state sources clearly show that Texas has 38 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 2020 Census apportionment gave Texas 38 seats, and current House, Congress.gov, and Texas election listings all align with that number. A minor secondary-source error about the size of Texas’s gain does not change the confirmed total.
“As of April 2026, the Texas delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives consisted of 24 Republicans, 13 Democrats, and one vacant seat in Texas's 23rd congressional district.”
The claim gets the vacant district right but the partisan breakdown wrong. As of April 2026, official House sources showed Texas’s delegation as 25 Republicans, 12 Democrats, and one vacancy, not 24 Republicans and 13 Democrats. The stated numbers appear to come from mixing an older party split with the later TX-23 vacancy.
“During a private Saturday call, Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia and Hakeem Jeffries discussed strategies after losing a redistricting case at the Supreme Court of Virginia, including trying to flip two or three Republican-held seats under the existing map.”
The evidence supports only the broader point that Democrats were reassessing strategy after the court loss. It does not verify a private Saturday call between Hakeem Jeffries and Virginia House Democrats, nor does it confirm that they discussed flipping two or three Republican-held seats. Public reporting and official statements stop well short of those specific assertions.