December 14, 2025
A group of Texas Democrats fled their home state Sunday, traveling roughly 1,000 miles to Illinois to block a Republican-backed redistricting effort. Their stated reason? To stop what they called an undemocratic and racist power grab. Ironically, they ran straight into the arms of the most aggressively gerrymandered state in...

A group of Texas Democrats fled their home state Sunday, traveling roughly 1,000 miles to Illinois to block a Republican-backed redistricting effort. Their stated reason? To stop what they called an undemocratic and racist power grab.

Ironically, they ran straight into the arms of the most aggressively gerrymandered state in America — Illinois — where Republicans have almost no voice at all.

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