DALLAS — Leading Illinois Democrats and the head of the national Democratic party joined Texas House Democrats this week in a call for a political redistricting fight to expand to a national battle on Tuesday.

Texas House Democrats have been trying to widen the message of their decision to break quorum at the Legislature and halt efforts to pass a partisan gerrymander that would flip as many as five Democratic seats in Congress to Republican control.

Here are five developments this week amid an ongoing battle for political advantage:

Bomb threat in Illinois Wednesday

An early morning bomb threat in Illinois Wednesday prompted an evacuation of the hotel where House Democrats have been staying since fleeing Texas to block the partisan redistricting of the state’s congressional seat

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