The Democratic state MLAs fled from Texas on Sunday, hoping to vote on a new Congress map in an attempt to denote a quorum to Republican, which prefer GOP even more than the current districts.
Texas House Democrats said in a statement on Sunday, “For two weeks, while families in Hill Country mourned the loss of more than 130 texas in the horrific floods, the Democrats fought a fight to relieve the top priority of the Legislature. Instead, instead, Governor Abbott and Republican leadership used the tragedy as a political cover.”
The statement said, “Governor Abbott has replaced Donald Trump a tragedy in his submission.
“For a very long time, Donald Trump and Republican have tried to manipulate the system, break the rules, break and hold power. It’s time to fight back.”
Republican New map unveiled Earlier this week, GOP’s Razor-Thin US House as part of a mid-decade redistribution in an attempt to protect the majority. President Trump Said in July He believes that Republicans can win five more seats in Texas with various districts.
Texas village. Greg Abbott included redistribution to address in a special legislative session, as well as other high-profile disciplines such as disaster relief for deadly Texas floods and a THC ban.
“For weeks, we are warning that if Republican wants a Tasleem in Texas – if they want to delay flood relief to save Donald Trump from unavoidable midtharm multdown – we would give them that shodown,” Martin said.
Both houses of the Texas Legislature are controlled by Republican, but if most Democratic MPs left the state, they can deny the state house and Senate two-thirds of the quorum that they need to vote on the new Congress map.
At least 51 Texas Democrats have run to the state ChicagoPolitico was the first to report that MPs left the state.
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Republican in Texas is currently 25 of the state’s 38 Congress seats. The party hopes that the new maps can bring that number up to 30, and all those new 30 seats were won by Mr. Trump by at least 10 points in November.
Five seats come from Rio Grande Valley Districts – where Mr. Trump once was a Democratic stronghold – and has made a profit in Austin in the districts of Lloyd Doggate and Greg Sesar, including reps. In northern Texas, rape. Julie Johnson’s suburbs will be re -designed to spread the 32nd district from Dallas region to rural Republican strongholds, and rape. Mark VC will be completely taken out of the Tarant County, which will leave only a small portion of the county depicted by a democrat. All four Houston-region seats were re-prepared with rape al-Green being the most dramatic.
“They are turning our districts into crazy shapes to guarantee the results they want in 2026 elections,” Democratic State Rape James Talarico said in a message. Posted on social media“If this power is grabbed, they will hang in power without any accountability from voters.”
Democrats are Fought back against new districtsHouse Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrees on Thursday vowed a national support to travel to Austin.
“We’re not fighting for the Democratic party, we are fighting for the Democratic process, and the bets may not be too much. We have to take a stand,” Talariko said.
Martin In an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday, I said, “I really proud to break the quorum here. Our democracy is truly under attack by Donald Trump, Greg Abbott and Republican, who know that they are on a track to lose the majority of the House next year. So what they do? They leave all?”
“We are definitely going to stand with those who will litigate it in courts,” Martin said. “We will continue to hold on the ground in Texas, and we will continue to support the dames of the house, as they have just broken the quorum.”
This is not the first time Democrats have left the kingdom to deprive the Republican to a quorum – not the first when they have done it to oppose it. Landmarks escaped during two separate special sessions to prevent redistribution of Texas Democrats during the mid-decade of 2005. But the redistribution eventually passed. And in 2023, Republican passed the law that impose a fine of $ 500-day on MPs leaving the state.
The final significant quorum brake at the Texas House was in 2021, when Democrats fled to the state to prevent a restrictive voting bill.
Last month, Texas Attorney General Kane Paxon Threatened to help police In the “Hunting Down and Into the Attendance” of any democratic MPs who leave the state to block votes during a special session.
“If the Democrats break the quorum and ignore their duties towards their components, they should be found and arrested, no matter what they are,” said Paxton, which is also running for GOP enrollment in the next year’s Senate race.
