(The Hill) – Texas Democrats who fled their state on Sunday face $500 daily fines as they try to stall GOP efforts to redraw the Lone Star State’s congressional maps, along with Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) call for their arrest.

Democrats are denying the Republican-led state House of the numbers it needs to function and pausing progress on the redistricting proposal — but the move comes with big risks for the participating lawmakers.

The threats ratcheted up Monday afternoon when Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety, after the state House issued warrants, to return to "locate, arrest and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans ... until all missing Democrat House members are accounted for and brought to the Texas Capitol."

At the same tim

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