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Texas Gov. Wants Democrats Who Left State Kicked Out Of Office. Can He Legally Do It?
State officials are using what’s called a “quo warranto” process to ask the Texas Supreme Court to remove Democrats from ...
The Trump-Texas redistricting mess, briefly explained
A political showdown is unfolding in Texas, where state Republican lawmakers are trying to game the system to give their national party an advantage in next year’s midterm elections. They’ve hit a ...
Will Texas Democrats’ walkout work?
For months, Democrats have been urging their party to play more hardball in fighting back against President Donald Trump’s ...
Texas Democrats leave the state, hope to derail Republicans’ radical redistricting scheme
Ahead of a vote on the GOP’s redistricting gambit, Texas Democrats played their final card: They fled the state to block the ...
The Origins of the Political Power Grab in Texas
The cutthroat political maneuvering in Texas seemed to begin quietly in June, when President Trump’s political team urged ...
Texas Democrats Fled Their State. They’ve Done That Before. It Almost Never Works
More than 30 Texas lawmakers are in Illinois. Another six are in New York. Massachusetts was a draw for others as their comrades gathered for an unrelated wonkfest. And a few are ...
Texas Democrats defy Gov. Abbott's redistricting ultimatum, and threats of arrest, to block consideration of new congressional maps
The governor had threatened to kick Democrats out of office after dozens fled the state to prevent new district lines from ...
Texas Democrats leave the state to prevent vote on GOP-drawn congressional map
Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday in a desperate bid to block an aggressively partisan redrawing of the state’s ...
Democrats prevent Texas House from moving forward with GOP-friendly congressional map
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t ...