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

More than 50 Texas Democrats are hundreds of miles away in Illinois. They're trying to block new congressional maps that could give Republicans five more U.S. House seats. Their absence broke quorum , which prevents the Texas House from doing business.

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

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