An Illinois judge just rejected a request by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to help arrest Democrats who fled there over a fight on redistricting. Texas Republicans are expected to end their first special legislative session tomorrow after Democrats denied them a quorum, but they will immediately begin a new one, leaving out of state Democrats hammering out a plan for when they should return home. Joining me now, Democratic strategist and author of the Salty Politics Newsletter on Substack, Julie Reggink ...

Welcome back. We're tracking new developments in the Texas redistricting standoff that's resulted in dozens of Democratic state house members fleeing the state to block new congressional maps pushed by President Trump. The state's Republican leaders announced plans to adjourn the current special session and start a new one on Friday, resetting the clock as they wait for Democrats to return to the state.Republican Governor Greg Abbott says he will call as many special sessions as it takes to compel Democrats ...

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The battle over redistricting in Texas has threatened to ignite a partisan redistricting arms race. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsome says his state will respond to Texas and call a November special election over redistricting to redraw California's maps. Meanwhile, Republican controlled states from Missouri to Indiana to Florida are being encouraged by President Trump and Vice President Vance to take a look at their district maps ahead of the midterms.Joining me now is the expert on all things r ...

Joining us now, co-host of the week night here on MSNBC, Simone Sanders Townsen and Puck congressional correspondent Abby Abby Living Livingston is back with us. All right, Abby, Texas is your purview. Texas girl, tell me, um, Democrats want to put pressure on Governor Greg Abbott. They want to put pressure on the Republicans.They tried this in the past. It did not work. Is it going to work this time.I think it's highly unlikely, but they've got to put up a fight. But what I can say is this idea of every ti ...

Eight days into the Texas redistricting stalemate and it's only escalating. Moments ago in Austin, state senate Democrats joined their House colleagues and walked out of the session. Meanwhile, California Democrats plan to move forward with their promise to redraw districts to their advantage within the next 10 days.And Texas Governor Greg Abbott is all but daring them to >> know this. If if California tries to jerrymander five more districts, listen, Texas has the ability to eliminate 10 Democrats in our s ...

Plan to add five Republican seats to the Texas congressional map is on hold as state house Democrats keep their walk out going. For the eighth day, the Texas chamber failed to reach a quorum. They need 100.Today, they only had 97. That means Republicans do not have the votes they need to get those seats. But this isn't just happening in Texas.Republicans across the country are trying to redraw congressional maps to their advantage. In Missouri, Republicans are pushing to split the district of Emanuel Clever ...

To those absent members, you can go to another city, another state, even another time zone. But you cannot escape your responsibility to the people of Texas. Eventually, you will be here.Tomorrow, when the gavl drops, the question is simple. Will you be in that chair to vote for these critical disaster recovery bills, or will you be remembered as one who did not show up. The choice is yours.And that happened just a couple minutes ago. That's the speaker of the Texas Legislative State House um basically sayi ...

If the Republicans and Donald Trump were just functioning within the rules, we wouldn't be in this situation. We're here because they bent the rules. And I think what's happening with with this redistricting is that being the opposition is a muscle.It is not the same as like, you know, a quick resist moment or a quick march. It is a potentially generationally long fight. And I think that they need to get used to stepping outside the bounds of what might seem respectable because the American people frankly I ...

“Democrats tend to be concentrated in big cities,” says @owenwntr. “The average voter for Kamala Harris lives in an area that voted for her by 13 points.”Why Democratic clustering has given Republicans the advantage in redistricting. Listen now https://t.co/9EzFhnTlsk ...