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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/12/its-over-texas-democrats-wil   
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   The war over Texas’ congressional maps is nearly over, and conservatives   
   emerged victorious.   
      
   ABC13 Eyewitness News reports that multiple sources have confirmed House   
   Democrats are finally coming back to Texas. They haven’t said exactly   
   when, but apparently, they think they’ve achieved some grand victory by   
   killing the first special session and grabbing a few headlines about the   
   mid-decade redistricting fight. In reality, all they’ve done is waste   
   taxpayer money, embarrass themselves on the national stage, and   
   guarantee that the new map will still pass, just without the drama next   
   time.   
      
   It is unclear which day they will be in Austin at the Capitol, but they   
   stress that they will push for Hill Country flooding relief to be the   
   priority.   
      
   This comes as the House went another session without a quorum on   
   Tuesday, with just 95 members present for the second day in a row. Texas   
   House Speaker Dustin Burrows said that assuming there is no quorum on   
   Friday, the session will end, and a new one will begin.   
      
   Hours later, the Senate actually passed a new map that benefits   
   Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. It's the same map that   
   passed out of committee in the House and precipitated more than 50 House   
   Democrats to break quorum.   
      
   Democrats in the Senate walked out in protest, but a quorum remained.   
   Sources told ABC13 that Senate Democrats will not break quorum.   
      
   It’s not all that surprising. The Democratic Party, the worst offenders   
   when it comes to gerrymandering, throwing a conniption over Republican   
   redistricting, was the epitome of hypocrisy, and to top that off, Texas   
   Democrats fled to the heavily gerrymandered state of Illinois: a stunt   
   so tone-deaf that it practically wrote its own punchline. Democrats were   
   going to cave eventually; it was only a matter of when.   
      
   Something tells me that when Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to keep calling   
   special sessions until the new map was passed, they knew they were beat.   
      
   “This could literally last years because in Texas, I’m authorized to   
   call a special session every thirty days. It lasts thirty days,” he told   
   Fox News host Shannon Bream on Monday, promising to keep calling session   
   after session relentlessly. “As soon as this one is over, I’m gonna call   
   another one, then another one, then another one, then another one.”   
      
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   When it comes to gerrymandering, Democrats are the undisputed champions.   
   Four of the five most gerrymandered states, Illinois, California, New   
   Jersey, and New York, are all under full Democratic control. Their   
   congressional maps hand Democrats far more seats than their actual vote   
   totals warrant. Illinois, for instance, gives Democrats a staggering   
   27-point edge in representation, even though they only won 55% of the   
   presidential vote. California and New Jersey aren’t far behind, each   
   showing double-digit advantages for Democrats.   
      
   The only state making the list with a significant Republican presence is   
   North Carolina, with a 20-point GOP edge. But Texas, often slammed as   
   the GOP’s gerrymandering poster child, actually has a smaller partisan   
   gap. Republicans won 56% of the presidential vote and hold 66% of the   
   congressional seats, a 10-point advantage that will grow with the new   
   map, but still pales compared to the distortions cooked up in Democratic   
   bastions.   
      
   The facts don’t lie. The worst gerrymanders are in blue states, and that   
   advantage has propped up Democrats even as they lose the national House   
   popular vote. What’s happening in Texas isn’t an attack on democracy;   
   it’s a long-overdue correction. No amount of grandstanding from   
   lawmakers playing hide-and-seek in Illinois will change that reality.   
      
   Texas Democrats finally realized they were fighting a losing battle. Now   
   the Texas Senate has approved the map, sending it to the State House for   
   final passage, leaving Democrats to grumble about something else.   
      
   Texas Democrats fled the state to dodge responsibility, but their   
   disappearing act couldn't stop the inevitable GOP victory in   
   redistricting.   
      
      
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