Trump Eyes Redistricting Move To Add 5 More GOP Seats In Texas Before 2026[update]

[rustynail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-5wC5U51jw

[txradioguy]

Who’s paying Texas Democrats to break the law?

They coordinated the entire stunt with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

A large chunk of the Texas Democrats are heading to Illinois, where Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker had been in quiet talks with them for weeks about offering support if they chose to leave the state to break quorum. Pritzker, a potential 2028 presidential contender, has been one of Trump’s most outspoken critics during his second term.

Last week, Pritzker hosted several Texas Democrats in Illinois to publicly oppose the redistricting effort. California Gov. Gavin Newsom held a similar event in his own state.

Pritzker also met privately with Texas Democratic Chair Kendall Scudder in June to begin planning for the possibility that lawmakers would depart for Illinois if they did decide to break quorum to block the map, according to a source with direct knowledge who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/watch-live-pritzker-texas-democrats-speak-after-group-breaks-quorum-heads-to-illinois/3804019/

[txradioguy]

Doing some sleuthing based on the picture in an article on Twitchy...here is the jet the Cowardly Texas Democrats are using.


It's an Embraer 170 operated by CommuteAir based out of Houston.  It holds 78 passengers plus two pilots and flight attendants.

CommuteAir doesn't post charter prices on their website...but some research finds that the average cost per hour to charter an E170 is $14,850 per hour


Your tax dollars at work.

[txradioguy]

For comparison here is the picture posted by State Representative Sheryl Cole as they were departing.

[cato potatoe]

Parker Thayer
@ParkerThayer
Going to Illinois to protest gerrymandering is like going to Wisconsin to protest cheese.
5:53 PM · Aug 3, 2025

A close-in view of Chicago demonstrates how egregious this map really is.  Maryland post 2010 is its only rival.  It's like Inception for ghettos.  They drew a ghetto inside a ghetto inside of another ghetto. 

[txradioguy]

@txradioguy
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Looks like @GregAbbott_TX may have to make good on his promise to vacate the @TexasHDC folks in Chicago from the Texas Legislature.  The chartered jet they used to fly to Chicago is back in Houston and it's a 2hr 10 min flight from ORD to AUS

https://x.com/txradioguy/status/1952405439200522440


For anyone interested...the tail code on the jet is N780NC 

[mountaineer]

Your tax dollars at work.

It may be Pritzker money, orchestrated by Obama and Jeffries.

[mountaineer]

For anyone interested...the tail code on the jet is N780NC 

03 Aug 2025 Chicago (ORD)    Houston (IAH)    C51501    7:39 PM   9:07 PM    10:03 PM    Landed 11:20 PM   
 03 Aug 2025    Austin (AUS)    Chicago (ORD)    C51400    4:00 PM   5:18 PM    6:35 PM    Landed 7:28 PM   
03 Aug 2025    Houston (IAH)    Austin (AUS)    C51500    1:00 PM   2:32 PM    1:39 PM    Landed 3:01 PM   

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n780nc

[mystery-ak]

Democrat NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Vows ‘War’ over GOP Redistricting in Texas

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is declaring “war” on Republicans over plans in Texas proposing a new congressional map that would likely result in five pickups for the GOP.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/04/democrat-ny-gov-kathy-hochul-vows-war-gop-redistricting-texas/

[mystery-ak]

Hakeem Jeffries Cheers Texas Dems Who Fled State to Block GOP Map: ‘The Embodiment of Good Trouble’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is praising Texas Democrats for refusing to vote on a Republican-led redistricting plan that could shift five congressional seats to the GOP, a move that involved fleeing the state to break quorum. His comments come amid a broader effort by Democrats to delegitimize Republican-led election reforms while advancing their own partisan maps in deep blue states.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/04/hakeem-jeffries-cheers-texas-dems-who-fled-state-to-block-gop-map-the-embodiment-of-good-trouble/

[Bigun]

Democrat NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Vows ‘War’ over GOP Redistricting in Texas

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is declaring “war” on Republicans over plans in Texas proposing a new congressional map that would likely result in five pickups for the GOP.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/04/democrat-ny-gov-kathy-hochul-vows-war-gop-redistricting-texas/

And??? She has exactly zero to do with this.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Any youtubers like following them around? That'd be pretty funny.

This may actually spurn some interest in politics in a pretty otherwise boring summer, for me.

This may get exceedingly entertaining, hunting down these scofflaws.

[Bigun]

https://twitter.com/MQSullivan/status/1952460733322514786

[Cyber Liberty]

https://twitter.com/MQSullivan/status/1952460733322514786

They just missed the Quorum Call so Abbott should be declaring their seats vacated.  I hope soon.  Also I am sure he's filing bribery charges.

[Bigun]

They just missed the Quorum Call so Abbott should be declaring their seats vacated.  I hope soon.  Also I am sure he's filing bribery charges.

 

[Cyber Liberty]

There be lawsuits for sure....

[Bigun]

https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1952467589554438645

[Bigun]

https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1952470032379740524

[IsailedawayfromFR]

There be lawsuits for sure....

Meanwhile we get money for the flood victims and obtain a few more GOP Congressmen potentially.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

California Republican to introduce bill banning mid-decade redistricting nationwide

Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) is set to introduce legislation that would halt the nationwide partisan redistricting process if passed in the House.

Kiley’s legislation, which stops any mid-decade redistricting, comes in response to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) calling a special election in the state for voters to allow lawmakers to redraw congressional maps, rather than the independent commission. The California congressman represents a portion of eastern California.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3490180/kevin-kiley-bill-banning-mid-decade-redistricting/

[Canuck Conservative]

By Victor Nava
NY Post (Aug. 4, 2025)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/04/us-news/texas-gov-abbott-orders-arrest-of-democrats-who-skipped-town-to-avoid-redistricting-vote/

“Texas House Democrats abandoned their duty to Texans,” Abbott said in a statement. “By fleeing the state, Texas House Democrats are holding hostage critical legislation to aid flood victims and advance property tax relief. There are consequences for dereliction of duty.”

Moments before Abbott’s announcement, the Texas House of Representatives voted 85-6 to approve a motion to call for the Democrats to come back.

House Speaker Dustin Burrows subsequently directed the chamber’s sergeant at arms “to send for all absentees … under warrant of arrest, if necessary.”

“To ensure compliance, I ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to locate, arrest, and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans,” Abbott proclaimed. “This order will remain in effect until all missing Democrat House members are accounted for and brought to the Texas Capitol.” ...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I bet the Texas Rangers can locate them and bring them back, probably alive.

[Canuck Conservative]

Do the Texas Rangers have authority to arrest the crybaby Dems in Illinois?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Do the Texas Rangers have authority to arrest the crybaby Dems in Illinois?

Hell, they went into Mexico arresting horse thieves and murderers.

[Fishrrman]

Those errant Texas d-communists have to come back someday.

When that day happens, and a quorum once again exists, force the vote on the redistricting.

[mountaineer]

It would be a shame if the Texas dems, while in Chicago, went out at 2 a.m. for a Subway sandwich and got mugged by fellas with nooses and MAGA hats. This is MAGA country, baby!

[collins]

LOL, and they went to Illinois of all places to protest gerrymanderiing.

just one of their old stunts, hope that fake ghetto chick really loses her district. She is entertaining at times, but joke's getting old.

[mountaineer]

Gene Wu
@GeneforTexas
Please support our efforts. Donate to @TexasHDC!
From texashousedems.com
10:30 PM · Aug 3, 2025

Bo French
@BoFrenchTX
Soliciting donations to fund your dereliction is a 2nd degree felony in Texas. You may not have known that given your allegiance to China, but you will learn the hard way.
11:53 AM · Aug 4, 2025

[berdie]

And??? She has exactly zero to do with this.

My thoughts exactly. MYOB and state, Kathy.

[berdie]

This could be fun.  They can't stay away forever.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

And??? She has exactly zero to do with this.

Actually, not all the deserters went to Illinois.

I read that some went to New York.

So Hochul is announcing to the world that she will not honor any arrest warrants from Texas and extradite them.

[Hoodat]

So Hochul is announcing to the world that she will not honor any arrest warrants from Texas and extradite them.

This is part of what triggered the War of Secession.  Ohio refusing to honor warrants from other States.  Hochul would be in direct violation of the US Constitution.


Article IV

Section 2.

A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.

[txradioguy]

Gene Wu
@GeneforTexas
Please support our efforts. Donate to @TexasHDC!
From texashousedems.com
10:30 PM · Aug 3, 2025

Bo French
@BoFrenchTX
Soliciting donations to fund your dereliction is a 2nd degree felony in Texas. You may not have known that given your allegiance to China, but you will learn the hard way.
11:53 AM · Aug 4, 2025

Gene may be a state level legislator...but he's a national level attention whore on social media.

[mountaineer]

Gene may be a state level legislator...but he's a national level attention whore on social media.

He sure is. The Jazzy Crockett of state legislators.

[txradioguy]

He sure is. The Jazzy Crockett of state legislators.

I'm waiting for the pics of his salad from Subway like he posted last time when this same group of Dems ran to DC and hid behind Pelosi's skirt.

[Mod2]

Merged with existing thread.

[mystery-ak]

Ian Hanchett 4 Aug 2025

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Texas State. Rep. Linda Garcia (D) argued that Illinois’ gerrymandering is different from Texas because it’s “within their constitution, within their right.”

Guest host Phil Mattingly asked, “One of the things that’s been raised, particularly for you and some of your colleagues that have gone to Illinois, is Illinois isn’t exactly a nonpartisan district-by-district state. It’s quite a gerrymandered state towards the Democratic side, was, just a couple of years ago, signed into law by the current Gov., JB Pritzker (D). How do you respond to people who point that out?”

Garcia responded, “Well, I think that the actions he took are within their constitution, within their right. That is very different from what is taking place in the state of Texas. So, I think we all need to process that and understand the difference. This is illegal.”

She added, “In the state of Texas, our Texas Constitution calls for redistricting every ten years, based on the Census. We are not at the ten-year mark. We are halfway through the ten-year mark. And so, not only are we redistricting from data that is incorrect, but we are also watering down the voices. When President Donald Trump calls for five congressional Republican districts, he is calling for the watered-down voices of marginalized community members in those existing districts. And that is the difference.”

more
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/04/dem-tx-rep-illinois-gerrymandering-is-different-because-its-legal/

[txradioguy]

Ian Hanchett 4 Aug 2025

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Texas State. Rep. Linda Garcia (D) argued that Illinois’ gerrymandering is different from Texas because it’s “within their constitution, within their right.”

Guest host Phil Mattingly asked, “One of the things that’s been raised, particularly for you and some of your colleagues that have gone to Illinois, is Illinois isn’t exactly a nonpartisan district-by-district state. It’s quite a gerrymandered state towards the Democratic side, was, just a couple of years ago, signed into law by the current Gov., JB Pritzker (D). How do you respond to people who point that out?”

Garcia responded, “Well, I think that the actions he took are within their constitution, within their right. That is very different from what is taking place in the state of Texas. So, I think we all need to process that and understand the difference. This is illegal.”

She added, “In the state of Texas, our Texas Constitution calls for redistricting every ten years, based on the Census. We are not at the ten-year mark. We are halfway through the ten-year mark. And so, not only are we redistricting from data that is incorrect, but we are also watering down the voices. When President Donald Trump calls for five congressional Republican districts, he is calling for the watered-down voices of marginalized community members in those existing districts. And that is the difference.”

more
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/04/dem-tx-rep-illinois-gerrymandering-is-different-because-its-legal/

She's failing to take into consideration the massive amount of illegals that entered the state over the last five years thanks to Biden...done on purpose to change the population make up of certain districts.

That alone should be the driving force for an early redrawing of the maps.

[mystery-ak]

Texas Republican: GOP ‘will never have the White House again’ if state lost to Democrats
by Filip Timotija - 08/05/25 8:14 AM ET

Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R) claimed on Monday that the Republican Party will “never have the White House again” if Democrats overtake the majority in the Lone Star State.

“I‘m here to speak for myself. And what I care about is working to make sure that the will, the interests, the desires and quite frankly, what the voters of Texas deserve to have happen, which is their elected Republican legislature, stand up and do what they want, which is make sure the state of Texas — where the line in the sand for the future of the country,” Harrison said during his Monday night appearance on CNN’s “The Source,” when asked why the redistricting push in Texas, which was approved by President Trump, is taking place.

“There‘s no doubt about that. As goes Texas, so goes the nation,” he told host Kaitlan Collins. “If we ever lose Texas to the Democrats, the Republicans will never have the White House again. So, it‘s incumbent upon us, people like me, in the legislative branch.”

Harrison added, “If you want to ask the governor a question about what motivated him to do something, feel free to ask him. I mean, he called the special session as a member of the legislature.”

more
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5436213-texas-rep-brian-harrison-redistricting/

[txradioguy]

Texas Republican: GOP ‘will never have the White House again’ if state lost to Democrats
by Filip Timotija - 08/05/25 8:14 AM ET

Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R) claimed on Monday that the Republican Party will “never have the White House again” if Democrats overtake the majority in the Lone Star State.

“I‘m here to speak for myself. And what I care about is working to make sure that the will, the interests, the desires and quite frankly, what the voters of Texas deserve to have happen, which is their elected Republican legislature, stand up and do what they want, which is make sure the state of Texas — where the line in the sand for the future of the country,” Harrison said during his Monday night appearance on CNN’s “The Source,” when asked why the redistricting push in Texas, which was approved by President Trump, is taking place.

“There‘s no doubt about that. As goes Texas, so goes the nation,” he told host Kaitlan Collins. “If we ever lose Texas to the Democrats, the Republicans will never have the White House again. So, it‘s incumbent upon us, people like me, in the legislative branch.”

Harrison added, “If you want to ask the governor a question about what motivated him to do something, feel free to ask him. I mean, he called the special session as a member of the legislature.”

more
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5436213-texas-rep-brian-harrison-redistricting/

The goal for a couple decades has been to turn Texas blue for the reasons stated above.

[Polly Ticks]

The goal for a couple decades has been to turn Texas blue for the reasons stated above.

Yep.  Their "Turn Texas Blue" PAC evidences their concerted efforts since at least 2017.

© 2017–2025 Turn Texas Blue PAC. All Rights Reserved.

https://turntexasbluepac.com/

[Bigun]

The goal for a couple decades has been to turn Texas blue for the reasons stated above.

And they have failed miserably at doing it. Texas is getting redder by the day and Democrats know it! Which is the real reason they have run off instead of doing their jobs.

[txradioguy]

Yep.  Their "Turn Texas Blue" PAC evidences their concerted efforts since at least 2017.

Yeah if they can get Texas or Florida to turn blue we'll never have a Republican President or congress ever again.

[Elderberry]

Fox News Host Says Texas Dems Will Be Sent To Prison In El Salvador If They Refuse To Cave To The GOP's Redistricting Push

The Latin Times

Governor Greg Abbott ordered on Monday the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block the effort

Fox News host Jesse Watters said Texas Democratic lawmakers who continue blocking the GOP's push to change congressional districts could end up in El Salvador's mega prisons where Venezuelan migrants were sent earlier in the Trump administration.

Watters made the claim while discussing Governor Greg Abbott's order for the arrest of the lawmakers who left the state to block the effort, through which the GOP is seeking to obtain five additional seats.

"Democrats had until 3 to show and they didn't. So Gov. Abbott is sending out a posse to arrest them for dereliction of duty and drag them back to the Capitol. They told us no one is above the law. And if they resist, they'll wind up in El Salvador with the Maryland dad," Watters claimed.

More: https://www.latintimes.com/fox-news-host-says-texas-dems-will-sent-prison-el-salvador-if-they-refuse-cave-gops-588018

[Cyber Liberty]

@corbe

Is this really District 35?

[Cyber Liberty]

Fox News Host Says Texas Dems Will Be Sent To Prison In El Salvador If They Refuse To Cave To The GOP's Redistricting Push

The Latin Times

Governor Greg Abbott ordered on Monday the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block the effort

Fox News host Jesse Watters said Texas Democratic lawmakers who continue blocking the GOP's push to change congressional districts could end up in El Salvador's mega prisons where Venezuelan migrants were sent earlier in the Trump administration.

Watters made the claim while discussing Governor Greg Abbott's order for the arrest of the lawmakers who left the state to block the effort, through which the GOP is seeking to obtain five additional seats.

"Democrats had until 3 to show and they didn't. So Gov. Abbott is sending out a posse to arrest them for dereliction of duty and drag them back to the Capitol. They told us no one is above the law. And if they resist, they'll wind up in El Salvador with the Maryland dad," Watters claimed.

More: https://www.latintimes.com/fox-news-host-says-texas-dems-will-sent-prison-el-salvador-if-they-refuse-cave-gops-588018

Lol!  Unlikely

[corbe]

@corbe

Is this really District 35?

   

   Yes, my district.  @Cyber Liberty a dem lloyd doggett has run the district for 30 years.  2 blocks away from my location starts Chip Roy's district.

[Cyber Liberty]

   

   Yes, my district.  @Cyber Liberty a dem lloyd doggett has run the district for 30 years.  2 blocks away from my location starts Chip Roy's district.

I'm appalled.  I never knew they stretched a District long enough to include parts of San Antonio and Austin. 

[txradioguy]

@corbe

Is this really District 35?

Indeed it is.

[corbe]

   Look at Texas District 18, designed to keep sheila jackson lee in power till she died in office.