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Pritzker’s Illinois, Temporary Home to Texas Democrats, Is Gerrymandering Hot Spot
Just three of 17 Illinois congressional districts are represented by Republicans in a state where Trump won 44% of the 2024 ...
Inside Texas Democrats’ plan to seek refuge with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a possible 2028 presidential candidate, took in Texas Democrats who fled their state to block a ...
Texas Democrat Reacts as Abbott Asks State Supreme Court to Remove Him
The chair of the Democratic Caucus in Texas' House of Representatives called Governor Abbott's move "purely insanity." ...
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Pritzker shelters Texas lawmakers from vote
Classes begin Tuesday at Rock Island High School, but nine classrooms are still off-limits to students and staff while Rock ...
Texas governor threatens to remove Democrats who left the state over Trump-backed redistricting
The revolt by Democrats in the state House and Abbott’s threat ratcheted up a widening fight over congressional maps that ...
Texas House Democrats urge blue states to redraw congressional lines to counter Texas GOP
The call to action follows the currently stymied effort by the Texas GOP to redraw the state’s congressional map to try to ...
Redistricting clash escalates in Texas after Democrats scatter, denying state House a quorum
Democratic lawmakers fled to Illinois and other states Sunday in a bid to deny Republicans a quorum when the state House ...
Texas Dems ripped for 'cartoonishly dumb' strategy to flee to blue state notorious for gerrymandering
Texas Democratic lawmakers arrive in Illinois after fleeing their state to block a Republican redistricting vote that President Trump says could gain the GOP five new House seats ...