Wow. This isn't even as aggressive a map as I expected from Texas Rs. It could plausibly be 24R-14D, w/ the chance Rs add seats in the Rio Grande Valley & Dems gain in DFW burbs over the course of the 2020s.
https://twitter.com/allymutnick/status/1442497118342508546
A few early highlights/impressions:
- a new Dem #TX37 in Austin
- a new GOP #TX38 in Houston (for Wesley Hunt?)
- no new Hispanic majority seat (lawsuit?)
- #TX15 Gonzalez (D) made redder
- #TX03 Taylor (R) & #TX24 Van Duyne (R) not shored up quite as much as I'd have expected
- a new Dem #TX37 in Austin
- a new GOP #TX38 in Houston (for Wesley Hunt?)
- no new Hispanic majority seat (lawsuit?)
- #TX15 Gonzalez (D) made redder
- #TX03 Taylor (R) & #TX24 Van Duyne (R) not shored up quite as much as I'd have expected
Another surprise: this GOP proposal doesn't shore up #TX21 Rep. Chip Roy (R) by nearly as much as it could have. He's still got a chunk of Travis Co.
The much bigger winners: #TX02 Crenshaw, #TX10 McCaul, #TX22 Nehls, #TX25 Williams, #TX31 Carter.
The much bigger winners: #TX02 Crenshaw, #TX10 McCaul, #TX22 Nehls, #TX25 Williams, #TX31 Carter.
And of course, the huge winners: #TX07 Fletcher (D) & #TX32 Allred (D), who would get mega-safe Dem districts in Houston & Dallas respectively.
The GOP play in the Rio Grande Valley: they've turned Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D)'s #TX15 into a Trump district. Under these lines, it's likely Gonzalez would move over to retiring Rep. Filemon Vela (D)'s open #TX34, which would become an even safer Dem seat. 
Bottom line: the most likely outcome of this map in 2022 would be 25R-13D, *however* Republicans have still left the door open a crack for Dems in #TX15 as well as a few suburban GOP seats like #TX03, #TX21, #TX23 and #TX24 under the right circumstances.
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