Democrats Flee Texas to Fight Redistricting
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In Texas, Republicans are pursuing redistricting, aiming to shake up the electoral balance of the state. In protest of this, Democrats have fled to Illinois. Sunday evening, however, Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatened to remove them from office if they don’t return.
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From Breitbart:
Sunday afternoon, Texas House Democrats fled the state to Illinois to stop the State Legislature from moving forward on plans to redistrict Texas Congressional Districts, Breitbart News’ Elizabeth Weibel reported. Democrat Caucus Chair Gene Wu (D-Houston) said the governor is “using an intentionally racist map to steal the voices of millions of Black and Latino Texans, all to execute a corrupt political deal.” The chairman said House Democrats will “not be complicit in the silencing of hard-working communities who have spent decades fighting for the power that (President Donald Trump) wants to steal.”
The House Democrats left the state on Sunday and reportedly flew to Illinois.
House Democrats are leaving the state to, as the Governor put it, “deprive the House of the quorum necessary to meet and conduct business.” The State House requires a certain number of representatives to be present in order to vote. So, in layman’s terms, House Democrats exited the state to keep the vote on a new district map from happening in the first place.
In response, Governor Abbott has suggested that these legislators may have abandoned their offices by fleeing the state. And, if that is the case, it would give the Governor the authority to fill the lawmakers’ seats himself:
“This truancy ends now,” Governor Abbott (R) said in a Sunday night statement. “The derelict Democrat House members must return to Texas and be in attendance when the House reconvenes at 3:00 PM on Monday, August 4, 2025.” The governor said he will invoke “Texas Attorney General Opinion No. KP-0382 to remove the absent Democrats from their elected office.”
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Abbott concluded that “through a quo warranto action, a district court may determine that a legislator has forfeited his or her office due to abandonment and can remove the legislator from office, thereby creating a vacancy.”
“That empowers me to swiftly fill vacancies under Article III, Section 13 of the Texas Constitution,” Abbott stated.
Additionally, many of the Democrats who fled the states have been soliciting funds to cover the fines they will incur upon their return. Governor Abbott suggested that this may amount to bribery, adding potential felony charges into the mix.
How will this resolve? Only time will tell. As of Monday evening, Democrats had not returned to Texas. In response to this, Governor Abbott reportedly ordered the Texas Rangers to investigate those who fled “for potential bribery and any other potential legal violations,” according to CNN. The Texas House Speaker has also reportedly signed civil arrest wants for the Democrats who did not show up to a special session held earlier today.
This is yet another way that those on the Left are abusing power. Let’s pray for an end to this obstruction charade!
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(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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I completely agree with Governor Abbott and His strand on what needs to be done with the Democrats who left their their responsibility to try to force their
evil intents! Removing them is the right thing to do!
Brothers and Sisters. We are beginning a” Movement”, of political debate… which may be fine and beneficial – or devisive and demonic it has become a distraction from the original intent of this platform. Let’s stay the course. Regardless of our political convictions let’s pray for each other – and for truth, justice and God’s will to be done “on earth”, in America, as it is in heaven. Amen
When Americans refuse to show up for work, they get fired. Democrats need to be fired. Democrats are transformalist, hate America, hate the middle class and anyone who disagrees with their deranged plans and thinking. They will do and say anything to stay in power.
You got that right, Barry. Exactly the way I feel.
That is a pretty hateful message directed towards Democrats and really unfair though no one on this website will call you out on it. Nor will IFA remove your comment though if someone said Republicans hate America and are deranged it would be removed. But since you are a Christian, I assume you believe that we all are to be judged equally before God and so when the Republicans in Congress try to call for a recess and miss work so as to not have a vote on the releasing the Epstein files, I’m sure you have the same response, correct? They should all be fired. It would only be fair by your thinking to fire all the Republicans in Congress.
Danny, it is not just that the comment is hateful, it is contrary to the teachings of Jesus. Evangelicals are supposed to be the kind of people who memorize scripture, read the Bible every day, and take the Bible seriously, but they seem to not really seek to have any deeper understanding than memorization or factual knowledge. If you read the parable of the Good Samaritan, that is part of the main point here, these people that were categorized as immoral/deranged were the ones capable or really helping someone in need and doing God’s will over the religious priest and Levite who were ‘righteous’ but too focused on the wrong things to see someone who truly needed help. To categorize all Democrats as deranged puts you in the wrong place of interpreting the Good Samaritan parable and against the teachings of Jesus, but Evangelicals just don’t seem to get this and self-righteously think they are on the right side of morality, when that very view means that they are not.
May the Democratic House members reconsider their childish choice and return willingly. May they stop playing this game and fulfill their post.
As more information emerges about Trump’s association with Epstein, Trump and his loyalists are trying hard to push stories suggesting that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton or former president Barack Obama or other Democrats are the real criminals.
On July 24, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claimed that officials in the administration of Barack Obama ”manufactured” evidence in 2016 to suggest that Trump’s campaign was connected to Russian operatives. This was ridiculous on its face, but then the administration declassified documents it claimed proved their allegations. But another set of documents released on August 1 said the two emails that purportedly proved such a plan were instead, as Charlie Savage of the New York Times put it, “most likely manufactured by Russian spies.”
After Gabbard made her claims, media outlets reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi was surprised as well as annoyed by Gabbard’s explosive accusations and, already in trouble for botching the Epstein issue, scrambled to support them.
Today Sadie Gurman, Josh Dawsey, and Brett Forrest of the Wall Street Journal reported that, according to an official at the Department of Justice, Bondi has signed an order directing a U.S. attorney to present evidence concerning the matter to a grand jury. This is a major escalation in their crusade to convince voters that the real story in the news should be that Trump is a victim.
The Wall Street Journal reporters note that the administration’s claims “come as the Trump administration has faced intense bipartisan criticism over its refusal to provide more information about the FBI investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”
Another aspect of the Epstein issue is also in the news today. After the Wall Street Journal published the story by Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo reporting that Trump contributed a bawdy birthday letter to an album Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell compiled for Epstein’s fiftieth birthday in 2003, Trump sued the Wall Street Journal’s parent company Dow Jones and owner Rupert Murdoch for $10 billion. But the lawsuit read as if it were written primarily to rile up Trump’s base. The Wall Street Journal stood firm on the accuracy of its reporting, and the defendants moved to dismiss the lawsuit.
Truthful info that IFA is not reporting: President Donald J. Trump’s firing of the commissioner of labor statistics on Friday for announcing that job growth has slowed dramatically has drawn a level of attention to Trump’s assault on democracy that other firings have not. Famously, authoritarian governments make up statistics to claim their policies are working well, even when they quite obviously are not.
Yesterday former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told George Stephanopoulos of This Week on ABC News: “This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism…. [F]iring statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers. It goes with launching assaults on universities. It goes with launching assaults on law firms that defend clients that the elected boss finds uncongenial. This is really scary stuff.” In The Bulwark, Bill Kristol called out the open assault “on the truth, on the rule of law, on a free society” as “part of the broader pattern of the transformation of government information into pure propaganda.”
Summers shot down Trump’s claim that the commissioner had rigged the numbers in the jobs report to make him look bad. “These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals,” he said. “There’s no conceivable way that the head of the [Bureau of Labor Statistics] could have manipulated this number.”
Kathryn Anne Edwards at Bloomberg explained the implications of Trump’s determination to control economic statistics: “The peril…isn’t a potential recession; it’s losing highly reliable, accurate and transparent data on the health of the world’s largest economy.” As Ben Casselman pointed out in the New York Times, officials at the Federal Reserve, for example, need reliable statistics on inflation and unemployment to inform decisions about interest rates, which in turn affect how much Americans pay for car loans and mortgages.
Economist Paul Krugman noted that Trump lashed out against the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because most economists warned that Trump’s economic policies would hurt the economy, and the official data is starting to confirm that he was wrong and they were right. Krugman suggested that those numbers will continue to get worse as Trump’s tariffs and deportations start to show up in inflation.
These TX legislators who fled our state show such immaturity and childish behavior. They do not deserve to hold their seats. How ironic that in an attempt to block redistricting in TX, they run for solace to the state of Illinois which has turned “gerrymandering” into a ‘fine’ science. What hypocrites! Please give Gov. Abbott wisdom and strength to hear and obey You in regard to dealing with these renegades, and restoring order and the ability to function in our state’s legislature.
I hope that Governor Abbott follows through and that those democrats who fled lose their seat and receive the maximum punishment. It is time to punish those who abuse their power for the democrats evil agenda. Everything that democrats accuse republicans of is exactly what they are doing and have been doing for decades. The leadership in the democratic party are following satan’s evil plan and I pray that the good people in the democratic ask God’s help in removing the evil from their party. I trust in God to take care of this. 🙏😇🙏
Heavenly Father, You are a righteous and just God. I pray these rogue Democrats would be held accountable for their actions. It is time for accountability for those who break the law. Lord, You established this nation and the rule of law must be upheld. I bind the spirits of lawlessness, rebellion, and violence that are attacking our country, in the name of Jesus, Amen
Again, Father we pray Your Will over this and every situation. We know you are a Just and Precious Lord. We know that while man thinks he knows what is best, that YOU have a plan and whatever you deem appropriate is what will occur. We humble ourselves before you and pray that we will not be a stumbling block to your plans. Help us to learn to rely on you, holding fast the confession of our Faith for you are FAITHFUL. We give you all Glory, Honor, Power and Praise for you alone are Worthy to be Praised. Amen