UPDATE:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today (Monday, Aug. 4) issued a statement threatening to arrest Democratic state legislators who left the state to deny a quorum and thus thwart GOP efforts to force through racially gerrymandered congressional district maps before the 2026 midterm elections.

In a statement that uses every MAGA trigger word he could work in, Paxton said: “Instead of showing up to work and doing the jobs they were elected to do, House Democrat members have fled the state in a cowardly desertion of their responsibilities as elected officials. These jet-setting runaways abandoned Texas, abdicated their duties in the House, and sacrificed their constituents for a publicity stunt,

“I am prepared to do everything in my power to hold them accountable because these libe

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