State Democratic lawmakers have left Texas in an effort to block the passage of a new congressional map specifically designed by Republicans to get more House seats in next year’s midterm elections. State Rep.

A bomb threat forced Democrats from the Texas state House of Representatives to flee the hotel in Illinois where they are staying after they decamped to Illinois to block a Republican attempt to redraw the congressional map.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatened on Monday to arrest Democratic lawmakers who are using their collective absence from the state capital to prevent the legislature from adopting a Republican-backed plan for redrawing Texas congressional districts.

Watch live coverage as the Texas House of Representatives convenes amid a standoff over a new congressional map. Democratic lawmakers have left the state in order to block the redistricting effort, which has prompted Gov.

The Texas House again failed to reach the quorum needed to vote on a new congressional map that could give Republicans five new seats, after state Democrats forced a legislative standstill.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his push for a Republican-backed plan to redraw Texas congressional districts before the midterm congressional elections in 2026. "We have a really good governor and we have good people in Texas and I won Texas,