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Cornyn: FBI to ‘assist’ locating Democrats opposed to Texas GOP’s redistricting scheme According to Texas’ senior Republican senator, the FBI will help track down Democratic legislators who fled the state, which is as radical as it sounds.

Aug. 7, 2025, 10:58 AM EDT

By Steve Benen

While there are certainly national implications to the Texas Republicans’ redistricting scheme , it is obviously a state issue. Indeed, the entire controversy involves Republicans in the Texas Legislature trying to redraw the state’s district lines, which led Democratic state lawmakers to play the only card they had left: They fled the state .

This has generated outrage from the state attorney general and the state’s governor, the latter of whom has taken steps to try

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