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CBS News on MSN · 3d

Bomb threat prompts evacuation at Chicago hotel where some Texas Democrats are staying

More than 50 Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday to prevent a quorum in the state House of Representatives to move forward on a bill that would set new congressional districts.

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 2d

Live redistricting updates: Dems say there was a bomb threat made at their hotel

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said his group is putting its full weight to help Texas Democrats, who left the state to block Republicans from redrawing congressional districts.

USA TODAY on MSN · 3d

Texas Democrats evacuate amid bomb threat at Illinois hotel

Some of the Texas Democrats who fled their state to try to block Republicans’ redistricting efforts were evacuated from an Illinois hotel where they were staying over a bomb threat. Police said they responded to a “report of a potential bomb threat at the Q-Center hotel and convention complex” at 7:15 a.

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Chicago Tribune · 6d

Texas House Democrats flee to Chicago to deny GOP’s congressional redistricting effort

Under threat of fines and arrest, Democratic members of the Texas House left for Chicago to deny the GOP a quorum needed to redraw congressional districts.

The Dallas Morning News on MSN · 6d

Texas House Democrats flee to Chicago to derail congressional redistricting bill

Texas House Democrats flee the state to delay a Republican-driven redistricting plan. A vote on a bill is scheduled for Monday.

Democrats delay Texas redistricting again, escalating a standoff with GOP leaders

Texas’ redistricting standoff rose to a new level Friday as Democrats once again denied a quorum to allow the House to consider the GOP-led plan and Republicans responded by threatening more punitive action.

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Texas Democrats head to Rainbow PUSH HQ to decry redistricting: 'This is our civil rights moment'

Lawmakers who fled Texas for Illinois to prevent an unprecedented mid-decade redrawing of congressional maps to benefit ...

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Texas Democrats in Illinois join Rainbow PUSH to mark 60th anniversary of Voting Rights Act

Texas House Democrats in Illinois say they are committed to staying out of their state until the special session ends August ...

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Watch live: Texas Democrats who fled to Chicago to deny GOP’s congressional redistricting effort speak out

Members of Texas’ Democratic congressional delegation who arrived in Chicago on Sunday are scheduled during a Monday evening ...

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Texas Democrats Head to Chicago in Effort to Block Redistricting Map

Democrats have left Texas for a second time in four years in an effort to block a vote by denying the legislature a quorum.

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Texas legislative standoff stretches into fourth day as Democrats are told to return to the Capitol on Friday

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that if Democrats don't return to Austin on Friday, they will be fired.

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Texas asks Illinois court to help it round up absent Democratic lawmakers

A lawsuit filed Friday in downstate Adams County seeks an order recognizing civil arrest warrants issued by the Texas House ...

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Finances weigh on Texas Democrats as costs of their quorum break add up

The legislators who fled the state face a daily fine, but they have also left behind their day jobs in Texas to grind the ...

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The Flaw in the Texas Democrats’ Plan

Shame, however, is not an emotion experienced by many politicians these days, least of all ones who answer to Donald Trump.

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