AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott is directing DPS troopers to find, arrest and return Democratic state lawmakers to the Texas Capitol .

On Monday night, dozens of Democrats rallied outside the Governor's Mansion in Downtown Austin. They protested both the redistricting push and Abbott's threat to remove the Texas Democrats who broke quorum from the House .

Those Democrats face fines of $500 a day and could be forced back to the Capitol by state troopers if they return to Texas. The members who left may have to pay that money out of their own pockets for being gone.

Congressman Greg Casar put on the protest, joined by the fellow Austin Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett.

The group held signs and chanted as they marched near the Governor's Mansion.

Under the proposed redistrictin

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