Posted on 08/18/2025 12:43:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrats ended a two-week walkout Monday that stalled Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts as part of a national partisan brawl over President Donald Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps to his advantage.
Their return to the Texas Capitol will allow the Republican-run Legislature to proceed as California Democrats separately advance a countereffort to redraw their congressional boundaries in retaliation. The tit-for-tat puts the nation’s two most populous states at the center of an expanding fight over control of Congress ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The battle also has rallied Democrats nationally after infighting and frustrations among the party’s own voters since Republicans took control of the White House and Capitol Hill in January.
In Texas, dozens of state House Democrats left the state Aug. 3 to deny their Republican-majority colleagues the attendance necessary to vote on redrawn maps intended to send five more Texas Republicans to Washington. After spending nearly two weeks in Illinois and elsewhere, they declared victory when Republicans adjourned their first special session on Friday and Democrats around the country rallied in opposition to the Trump-led gerrymandering effort. They pointed specifically to California’s release of proposed maps intended to increase Democrats’ U.S. House advantage by five seats, effectively neutralizing any Republican gains in Texas.
Many of the absent Democrats left Chicago early Monday and landed hours later at a private airfield in Austin, where several boarded a large charter bus to the Capitol. Once inside, they were greeted by cheering supporters. And for the first time since Trump’s redistricting push accelerated into a national issue, the Texas House floor was near full capacity when lawmakers convened briefly Monday afternoon.
Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows did not mention redistricting on the floor Monday but promised...
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It may not even be legal for CA to do that.
If they try, a massive lawsuit should be filed.
So they finally got over their collective temper tantrum thinking they proved something. Immature idiots!
Abbott needs to send those Texas Yellow-bellied, Double-Breasted Pushovers back to their butt buddy, the Prickster. Texans don’t want his cowardly little dogies here. They belong to the Chicongo Prixster now. He can make them into Vienna Sausages.
California “retaliated” years ago when it gerrymandered the crap out of its districts before Texas even thought about doing it. The big Dem states do this all the time and the press isn’t interested. But if one Republican state does it, the press screams bloody murder. Now lets see a bunch of other Republican states do it.
CA cant retaliate without the voters VOTING for what they want, without a special election which will FAIL because OVERWHELMINGLY the voters in a poll show by a 30 point margin that they do NOT want this, NewSCUM is done and he knows it he knows this wont pass
Commiefornia already cheated in the 2024 election, doesnt take THREE WEEKS to count votes in congressional races, they “counted” til they “won”
They said this morning that the evil Dark Kenyan Fascist was turning over the communist attack on America’s redistricting effort over to his own little Alfalafa Harris, Eric the Racist Holder. Washington is starting to look like the Little Rascals again.
DemonicRATS in Commiefornia hold 82% of Congressional seats even though 38% voted for Trump. A 43-9 makeup means 5 times more demonicRATSthanRepublican<>s
Texas Republicans hold 66% of Congressional seats while 56% voted for Trump. Texas has a 25-12 advantage . Or roughly 2 times as many Republicans.
Quod erat demonstrandum
Commiefornia is less of a democracy.
I thought they were going to be arrested
Hopefully more Red states follow Texas’s example since they can do a lot more gerrymandering than blue states (which are largely already maxed out on gerrymandering)
Though Republican officials are wimps so they probably won’t
They are in the process in Missouri. KC area. Will toss one Demwit.
Obummer should run for CA Guv’nuh.
Get that ‘Muricuh hatin’ Commie ball rollin’ once again!
HOW MUCH DID THE LAST “SPECIAL ELECTION” IN CALIF COST?
“Abbott needs to send those Texas Yellow-bellied, Double-Breasted Pushovers back to their butt buddy, the Prickster. “
Then no quorum, no redistricting.
Pretty amazing that it's just peachy that California is acting on Congressional redistricting because of what Texas is doing, but back in December 2020, the Supreme Court, except for Alito and Thomas, told 21 states including Texas that they had no standing in how Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin conducted the Presidential election in their respective states:
155, ORIG. TEXAS V. PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL.
The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.
“If they try, a massive lawsuit should be filed.”
In Texas, or some other staunchly conservative district. Because the democrats taught us, venue only matters for ensuring the judicial activism goes your way.
There’s already a pretty serious movement in California to separate it into two states. Newsome’s “enhanced Gerrymandering” plan could give new energy to it.
Republicans may be able to keep the map off of the ballot.
The new proposed map is illegal because it wasn't drawn by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is the only body currently authorized by law to draw district maps. Putting this map on the same ballot as the amendment to change the law is illegal piggybacking because the map isn't legal until the amendment is passed.
This has to be a two-step process: first they have a special election to amend the constitution, then if the amendment passes they can call another special election to adopt the new map that is now lawfully authorized.
The way they are doing it now, the illegal map cannot be on the same ballot that changes the authority to draw the maps because current law governs the map that would be put on the ballot.
-PJ
“It may not even be legal for CA to do that.
If they try, a massive lawsuit should be filed.”
Others have posted that it’s not possible to make the changes before the midterms for the reasons you mention.
CA Dems are trying to make up for the illegal alien House seats they’re in the process of losing.
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