The Democrats of Texas return to the State, ending a two -week dead end on the redistribution

Democratic legislators in Texas said they were returned to the state on Monday after an absence of two weeks which temporarily prevented Republican leaders from promulgating a plan aimed at padding the majority of their group in the American houseA decision that sparked a national political storm on redistribution.

The legislators decided to put an end to their impasse after preventing the Texas Republicans from passing a card from the redesigned Congress during a first special legislative session and after the Democrats of California have counters with their own redistribution proposal. But the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, called for a second special session, and with enough democratic legislators now present in Texas, the legislature controlled by the GOP will be able to advance its new card.

“We have killed the corrupt special session, resolved unprecedented surveillance and intimidation, and rallied the Democrats on a national scale to join this existential struggle for fair representation – remodeling the entire landscape of 2026,” said Gene Wu, president of the Democratic Caucus of Texas House, Gene Wu. ” We left. Our return allows us to build the legal file necessary to defeat this racist card in court, bring our message to communities through the State and the country and inspire how to fight these non -democratic redistribing diets in their own state houses. “

The Democrats of Texas, without any real legislative power, won praise at the national level of their party members for having delayed the pursuit of the Republicans of a rare and half-decennia redistribution effort and to raise awareness of the question. The two -week quorum break was expensive, with democratic legislators Facing a fine of $ 500 For each day, they were absent. And a lot Face security threats far from their families.

Democrats started Run the field for their possible return last weekDeclaring the decision of the Victory Republicans to end their first special legislative session without vote. They declared that their second condition to return was that the Democrats of California disclose a plan that would seek to compensate for all the changes that the Republicans of Texas have brought to their card, which They did it on Friday.

The more than 50 Democrats in Texas left the State on August 3, the day before the first special session, leaving the State House Short of the required quorum to consider legislative affairs.

They obtained a reception of heroes from the eminent Democratic governors in the United States in which they decamped, such as Illinois, California and New York. The problem has become a National rallying cry for democratsIn the midst of their argument that President Donald Trump and the national Republicans were pursuing himself to isolated himself from the potential political danger in the mid-term elections next year.

But the Republicans in Texas have deeply criticized their colleagues. They authorized the civil ceremonial arrest mandates against the fleeing members and moored them. The Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Abbott asked the court orders to withdraw more than a dozen of them from their seats. And the Republicans then moved, in their absence, to consider the legislation to respond to the devastating floods outside San Antonio, accusing the Democrats of shirking their responsibility for the victims.

“Instead of dealing with these challenges, some of our colleagues fled the state in their duty. They left the state, abandoned their posts and turned their back on the voters they have sworn to represent,” said the president of the Dustin Burrows Chamber on August 4 in response to the break of the quorum of the Democrats.

But the Democrats were fiercely critical with regard to these accusations, arguing that the legislature could have sent first with the bipartisan flood times, and only waited to keep the question as hostage to force the Democrats to return.

During the last meeting on Friday morning of the first special session of the room, the room had 95 of the 100 members necessary to move forward, which means that it would take the return of a few Democrats to allow the room to return to session.

And the redistribution plan adopted the State Senate last week for the demonstrations of State Democrats. While most of the Senators of the Democratic State were released during the debate on the bill, two remained, allowing the bill to adopt.