AUSTIN — Tarrant County Democrats joined their Texas House colleagues in bolting across state lines on Sunday to carry out their threat of extreme action against Gov. Greg Abbott’s Trump-backed congressional redistricting plan.

Most of the 62 Texas House members boarded flights for Chicago, New York and Boston throughout the day to deny Republicans the quorum needed to take up the fast-tracked legislation that would create five more congressional districts favoring the GOP.

“Right now, I’m on a plane to Illinois,” Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier texted the Fort Worth Report mid-afternoon. “Republicans may have ignored the people during the field hearings, but I bet they can hear us loud and clear now. #wheelsup #txlege.”

Key Texas GOP leaders criticized the lawmakers’ move, many insistin

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