Around the country, President Donald Trump is stepping up a pressure campaign on Republican state lawmakers to create new electoral maps meant to enshrine a GOP majority in the House—and ensure that he’s able to keep pushing through his agenda and avoid a potential impeachment ordeal at the hands of a Democratic-controlled Congress. And in Illinois, Governor JB Pritzker is offering a safe haven to Texas Democrats opposed to such efforts in their state.

In a show of Midwestern hospitality, Pritzker welcomed dozens of Democratic Texas lawmakers who had fled the state to halt a special session called by Texas governor Greg Abbott. The president had asked Abbott to have legislators draw and approve a new electoral map, designed to give five more congressional seats to the Republicans. “

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