Tag Archives: Walkout

How a Self-Described Wallflower Came to Lead the Texas Democrats’ Walkout  The New York Times Can the Out-of-State Texas Dems Be Arrested?  Time Magazine Blue State Republicans Helped Win the House Majority. The Redistricting Wars May End Their Careers.  Politico AWOL Dems’ flight from Texas may have been funded illegally by Beto O’Rourke nonprofit  Fox News How Texas Republicans want to dismantle Democratic districts  CNN …

Republicans Raise the Pressure on Texas Democrats to End Their Walkout  The New York Times Texas Democrats receive bomb threat in escalating standoff over redistricting  The Guardian Texas state lawmakers in Illinois evacuated from their hotel after threat  NBC News Bomb threat prompts evacuation at Chicago hotel where some Texas Democrats are staying  CBS News Bomb threat at Q Center on 5th Avenue in …

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to remove one of the state’s House Democratic leaders, Rep. Gene Wu, calling him “the ringleader” of the dozens of Democratic lawmakers who left the state in an effort to block a redistricting vote. Abbott filed the emergency petition with the Texas Supreme Court to have Wu, who represents Houston and …

As the umpires conferred on Friday night to determine whether Bryson Stott had beaten out the throw to first base, the control room above left field at Citizens Bank Park was holding its collective breath. The go-ahead run hinged on the umpires’ call. If the Phillies broke the tie with the Tigers in the eighth, that meant their new closer, …

Democrats Broach Potential Walkout to Block Texas Redistricting  The New York Times Trump tells Texas Republicans to redraw the state congressional map to help keep House majority  AP News Gerrymandering: Gov. Gavin Newsom floats redistricting retribution if Texas GOP redraws its maps ahead of midterm elections  ABC7 San Francisco White House eyeing five-seat GOP pickup in Texas in midterms as part of redistricting …