Texas Democrats decamp to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting
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In response, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to try to remove the Democrats from the state Legislature and said some of them may even be "felons."

In an extraordinary move brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, dozens of Texas House Democrats aim to deny a quorum as the GOP is set to draw new maps.

The roughly 30 Democrats are expected to stay for the week in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who had met with the Texas caucus late last month and has directed staff to provide logistical support for their stay. A news conference with the governor and Texas Democrats is expected later Sunday.

Last week, Texas Republicans released a proposed new congressional map that would give the GOP a path to pick up five seats in next year’s midterm elections. It followed President Donald Trump’s public pressure for a new map in the state as he works to retain a majority in Congress in what historically is a difficult year for the party holding the White House.

The proposed map would shift district lines in ways that would target current Democratic members of Congress in and around Austin, Dallas and Houston, as well as two already endangered Democrats representing south Texas districts that Trump carried last year.

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I’m not saying it’s going to be an overnight Civil War, it’s the beginning of a long, irreversible erosion process that could get very chaotic and economically destabilizing for the entire continent for the next century. Say goodbye to the American wealth we’ve all gotten so used to and start looking at how developing nations are structured.

    The only way I see this turning out even remotely good in our lifetimes is if there is a sudden and near-term disaster that results in a majority of America suddenly turning to some new, charismatic figure who actually wants to do good things and implements some kind of “New Deal 2.0” and we see reconstruction in our lifetimes under a revised and ratified constitution.

    So yeah, keep an eye on your bingo card that says “AI will kill most of us and then maybe save us.” Or aliens. Or nuclear war.