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Our top story: In order to fully block redistricting, #Democrats will likely need to maintain an organized quorum break of more than 90 days—easily the longest in Texas history—through possibly three special sessions and under more punitive political conditions than ever. texasobserver.org/texas-house-

The Texas Observer · Can Anything Halt the Gerrymandering Arms Race?Texas Dem quorum-breakers are seeking to protect voter rights nationwide, but they’re likely engaged in little more than a perfunctory game of chicken.
#Texas#TXlege#news

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Steve Schmidt:
Trump & MAGA Want To CONTROL American Votes

“...through computer programs that carve out every Democratic household in a way that makes it impossible to send a Democrat to Congress for a Democratic voice to be heard. And they're doing this to protect the deeply unpopular imbecile Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, the religious nationalist extremist.”
youtube.com/watch?v=ka83o8Lc7jI

#texas #gregabbott #kenpaxton #democrats

I just learned that the democrats in Texas received a gift from no other than Ken Paxton, there is a fight between Paxton and Greg Abbot;

“ Shortly after Abbott filed the motion, Paxton’s office took the unusual step of sending a letter to the Texas Supreme Court claiming Abbott did not, in fact, have the authority to file the lawsuit. ”

democracydocket.com/news-alert

Democracy DocketTexas Republicans Clash Over Lawsuit Removing Top Democrat From OfficeRead more here.
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#Texas state Rep. John Bucy III (D) blamed Republicans for the incident, saying in a post on X that their rhetoric has endangered the Democratic lawmakers.
“This is what happens when Republican state leaders publicly call for us to be ‘hunted down,’” Bucy said. “Texas #Democrats won’t be intimidated.”

#Texas #Democrats evacuated from Illinois hotel over potential #BombThreat

“We are safe, we are secure, & we are undeterred,” said caucus leaders after police searched the hotel where some of the lawmakers who had fled
Texas to block the redrawing of the congressional map were staying.

#law #Trump #StochasticTerrorism #GregAbbott #Republicans #PoliticalViolence #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #elections
usatoday.com/story/news/politi

USA TODAY · Texas Democrats evacuate amid bomb threat at Illinois hotelBy , USA TODAY

#Texas Gov #GregAbbott sues to remove TX #House #Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu from his seat amid #redistricting battle between TX #Democrats & #Republicans.

“What is at stake here? Nothing less than the future of Texas. If a small fraction of recalcitrant lawmakers choose to run out the clock today, they can do so for any, & every, Regular or Special Session, potentially bankrupting the State in an attempt to get their way,” Abbott’s suit reads.

#law #gerrymandering
thehill.com/regulation/court-b

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#Democrats’ revolt & #GregAbbott’s threats intensified a fight over congressional maps that began in #Texas but now includes Democratic governors who have pitched redrawing their district maps in retaliation—even if their options are limited. The dispute also reflects #Trump’s aggressive view of presidential #power & his grip on #Republicans nationally, while testing the long-standing balance of powers between the #federal government & individual #states.

#Politico Aug 4, 2025

#Texas Gov. #GregAbbott had a message Sunday 4 the 12s of #Democratic legislators who fled the state 2 derail a mega-partisan #gerrymander: “This truancy ends now.”

But Abbott’s options 2 compel those #Democrats — whose departure to Illinois & other states is preventing the state Legislature from conducting any business — 2 return & vote are more constrained & legally uncertain than he let on. & they may take significant time 2 resolve in court

politico.com/news/2025/08/04/g

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The #Texas Supreme Court held in 2021 that #House leaders had the authority to “physically compel the attendance” of missing members, but no #Democrats were forcibly brought back to the state after warrants were served. #Republicans answered by adopting $500 daily fines for lawmakers who don’t show up for work as punishment.

#GregAbbott, meanwhile, continues to make unsubstantiated claims that some lawmakers have committed felonies by soliciting money to pay for the fines…

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A refusal by #Texas lawmakers to show up is a civil violation of legislative rules. As for his threat to remove the lawmakers, #GregAbbott cited a nonbinding legal opinion issued by #Republican TX #KenPaxton amid a partisan quorum dispute in 2021. Paxton suggested a court could determine that a legislator had forfeited their office.
Paxton, who is running for US #Senate, said… #Democrats who “try & run away like cowards should be found, arrested, & brought back to the Capitol immediately.”
#law

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#GregAbbott insisted ahead of the scheduled session that lawmakers have “absconded” in violation of their sworn duties to the state.

“I believe they have forfeited their seats in the state Legislature because they are not doing the job they were elected to do,” he said in the FauxNews interview, invoking his state’s hallmark machismo to call the lawmakers “un-Texan.”

“Texans don’t run from a fight,” he said.