Texas Dems Can’t Win Redistricting Fight, So They Bravely Turn Tail And Flee The State

Aug 3, 2025 - 17:28
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Texas Dems Can’t Win Redistricting Fight, So They Bravely Turn Tail And Flee The State

Texas state lawmakers plan to break quorum, derailing a Republican-led attempt to redraw the state’s voting districts, because they do not have the votes to win by legitimate means.

Politico reported on Sunday that Texas Democrats planned to flee — by the dozens — in order to put a stop to the legislative process that would likely result in Republicans gaining as many as five GOP-leaning seats in the already traditionally red state.

“The choice was clear: Stand by while Abbott silences millions of Black and Latino voters, or use every tool available to stop this assault on our democracy. This corrupt special session is over,” the Texas Democrats declared in a statement.

The full statement read:

For two weeks, while families in the Hill Country mourned the loss of over 130 Texans in catastrophic floods, Texas Democrats fought to make their relief the legislature’s top priority. Instead, Governor Abbott and Republican leadership used the tragedy as political cover.

After thousands of Texans testified against this corrupt bargain in hearings across the state, their pleas were ignored.

“Governor Abbott has turned the victims of a tragedy into political hostages in his submission to Donald Trump. We will not allow disaster relief to be held hostage to a Trump gerrymander. As of today, this corrupt special session is over.”

Objecting to what they claim is an effort to “gerrymander” the districts in favor of Republicans, the Democrats plan to run away to a state where lawmakers wrote the book on partisan gerrymandering: Illinois.

Democrats attempted the same stunt in 2021 over an election bill, which passed along party lines in their absence but then could not proceed until they returned to the state 38 days later and they were able to achieve a quorum.

Governor Greg Abbott threatened to take action against the lawmakers who went AWOL in 2021 instead of doing their jobs, saying at one point that he would veto the section of the state constitution that ensured their pay.

“Once they step back into the state, they will be arrested and brought back to the Capitol and we will be conducting business,” Abbott told Fox News host Laura Ingraham at the time, saying that if the legislators returned to the state, he would dispatch law enforcement in order to force a quorum.

Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison has called on Abbott to take the same stance as Democrats attempt to employ the same strategy once again.

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