The map was submitted by redistricting committee member Rep. Todd Hunter, a Corpus Christi Republican. Hunter also chairs the House's Calendar committee. His office did not immediately respond a question asking who drew the map.

The longtime representative was first elected to the House in 1988. After serving four terms, he was again elected to the House in 2008 and has served in the chamber since.

The map moves District 33, represented by Democrat Rep. Marc Veasey of Fort Worth, to Dallas County. It is currently split across Tarrant and Dallas counties.

"Let's be clear - this map is racist, it's illegal, and it's part of a long, ugly tradition of trying to keep Black and Brown Texas from having a voice," Veasey said on X minutes after the map was submitted. "What Donald Trump and Greg Abbott are doing isn't about democracy - it's about consolidating power."

The newly proposed congressional map of Texas completely removes Fort Worth Democrat Marc Veasey's district from Tarrant County and puts it in Dallas County.

His district, as it stands now, is 86.8% non-white. In the proposed map, 77.5% of the district is non-white. It was one of four districts specifically mentioned in a letter from the Justice Department as "unconstitutional ‘coalition districts.'"

A coalition district is one that is predominantly made up of minority voters who tend to vote together. The letter, sent to Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton, called out Veasey's Fort Worth district and three Houston area districts.

Three districts in Houston and one Fort Worth district, all represented by Democrats, in the current congressional map of Texas was condemned by the Department of Justice prompting a mid-decade redistricting.

After receiving the letter on July 9, Abbott announced a special session agenda that included the redistricting, THC and legislation relating to the Hill Country flooding. Several constituents and lawmakers have been outspoken about this redistricting coming just weeks after hundreds of Texans died in a catastrophic natural disaster.

A new congressional map of Texas has been submitted to the Texas committees on redistricting by Corpus Christi Republican Todd Hunter

In the map proposed by Hunter, Tarrant County would be represented in Congress by Republican Beth Van Duyne in District 24, Republican Craig Goldman in District 12, Republican Roger Williams in District 25, Republican Jake Ellzey in District 6 and Democrat Jasmine Crockett in District 30.

District 9, represented by Democrat Al Green of Houston, is moved from the southern part of Harris County and parts of Fort Bend and Brazoria counties to encompass east Harris County in the proposed map.

District 18, which has been vacant since Democrat Sylvester Turner died in March, is C-shaped reaching north from Downtown Houston. In the proposed map, District 18 sits in South Houston and stretches into Fort Bend and Brazoria Counties.

District 29, represented by Democrat Sylvia Garcia, is shaped like a backward C and is the inverse of District 18. It moves from surrounding the north, east and south of Downtown Houston to only encompassing north Houston in the proposed map.

The map was released days after the final of three House redistricting committee public hearings took place in Arlington. Held at the UT-Arlington campus, representatives heard from hundreds of North Texans who were overwhelmingly opposed to the redistricting.

"Republicans have the power to stop this racist mid-decade redistricting that spits in the face of the Voting Rights Act," Veasey said in a statement after the hearing. "Know this-that Trump will not stop in Texas. He will go after minority voters across the nation. But Democrats will use every tool in our arsenal. We will fight to stop this rig-districting and protect the voices of millions."