The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/08/awol-texas-democrats-huddling-with-newsom-pelosi-in-sacramento-to-discuss-redistricting/Some of the Texas Democratic elected officials who’ve left their state in hopes of thwarting Trump’s redistricting plans are now in California, talking strategy with Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi. You may have heard about the saga where Texas statehouse Republicans are trying to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts to give Republicans five extra seats in Congress. Redistricting normally happens right after the US Census, but this year they’re trying to pull this in the middle of 2025. The goal, of course, is to try and preserve the Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, which they might lose next year in the

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