Texas Democrats Flee State to Avoid Redistricting Vote

Texas Democrats made good on a threat they’d been mulling since redistricting showed up on Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda last month: Lawmakers fled the state Sunday to avoid voting on a proposed map that they say is an illegal and discriminatory power grab for GOP congressional seats. Watching…

Texas Democrats made good on a threat they’d been mulling since redistricting showed up on Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda last month: Lawmakers fled the state Sunday to avoid voting on a proposed map that they say is an illegal and discriminatory power grab for GOP congressional seats. Watching closely, and, in some cases, participating in the fight over district boundary lines, are many of the almost two dozen candidates seeking to fill a vacant U.S. Congressional seat with a primary set in November…