Democrats are freaking out uh because they are realizing Texas has the authority to redistrict. >> More than 50 Texas Democrats headed to Chicago, New York, and Boston over the weekend, stalling a Republican push to redraw congressional districts in their favor. >> Why do you believe it is important for Texas to take this rare step of mid decade redistricting.>> Oh, because we have the opportunity. We have the time. We have the opportunity. And we have the advantage.In New York, flanked by Texas Democrats, ...

Democratic and Republican lawmakers are escalating their threats over redistricting, a fight that started in Texas and is now quickly spreading across the country https://t.co/mv1vlc0vWK ...

California Democrats are pushing a plan to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries https://t.co/dHaGyo0WLR ...

Texas Democrats who fled the state to block a controversial vote on new congressional maps will face "consequences," the state's House Speaker said Monday.Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered their arrest https://t.co/s8ffGXEj1c https://t.co/ApjIkwrXtT ...

Israel’s cabinet unanimously voted to terminate the country’s attorney general, citing “substantial and prolonged differences of opinion” between her and the government https://t.co/TJYn4BgxxM ...

France said that it would recognize Palestine as a state, and the UK and Canada have conditionally pledged to do the same. What difference does that make? https://t.co/j0Vnup4MZ2 ...

Most Texas House Democrats have left the state to prevent a vote on an unusual, GOP-backed effort to redraw congressional mapshttps://t.co/AUUtc7JQvo ...

We begin this morning with the confirmation of Donald Trump's latest nominee in a highly important position. Janine Piro, the combative Fox News host and one of the most prominent and fiercest Trump allies, was confirmed last night as US attorney for the District of Columbia. She was obviously confirmed along party lines.Trump announced Piro as his interim US attorney for Washington DC back in May after pulling the nomination for longtime right-wing activist Ed Martin who faced opposition to his nomination ...

Keir Starmer's courtship of Donald Trump may cost the British prime minister at home, argues Martin Ivens (via @opinion) https://t.co/3Mly4lRFy1 ...

Democratic politicians know that their supporters want a fighter. Their problem, having lost control of every branch of government, is that they can’t seem to get themselves into a fight they can actually win https://t.co/om3FdCt6EL ...