Iguess it's too much to ask for my home state of Texas to make national news for something that's cool or influential.

It's not often that I side with neither Republicans nor Democrats in Texas. But the redistricting debacle making national news is one of those times.

I don't know what's worse:

That Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to remove House Democrats from office if they didn't return to the Capitol on Aug. 4.

That the Texas House on Aug. 4 passed a motion allowing Speaker Dustin Burrows to issue arrest warrants for Democrats who skipped the legislative session.

That Democrats in the state House fled Texas for Illinois and New York to prevent the legislature from voting on new congressional district maps .

Or that House Republicans, in a bizarre power grab, are trying

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