Texas state Rep. Aicha Davis said she packed a couple of bags for her one-way trip to Chicago.

“I’m ready to be here for however long this takes,” the Dallas-area Democrat told the Sun-Times on Monday. “As long as it takes.”

Davis is among the dozens of Democratic Texas state legislators taking refuge in Illinois to deny Lone Star Republicans the quorum needed to vote on new legislative maps that would favor more GOP members in the midterm election, potentially smoothing the way for President Donald Trump’s agenda to advance in Congress.

“I absolutely cannot allow for the people in my area and across Texas to lose their voice and their vote, and so I’m just willing to do whatever it takes,” Davis said. “I feel bad that we had to get to this point because of what’s going on with the call

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