AUSTIN (KXAN)—Dolores Huerta, a labor and human rights activist, is in Austin this weekend, speaking out against Texas' controversial congressional redistricting maps.

Huerta, the 95-year-old co-founder of the United Farm Workers, will join Beto O'Rourke and Congressmen Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett at a rally at the Capitol on Saturday.

It's a part of the nationwide movement called the National Day of Action.

"We're trying to save our democracy, and when people's representation is taken away from them, this is a very, very crucial moment," Huerta said.

Saturday's rally comes after more than 50 Texas House democrats left the state to break quorum, delaying a vote on the proposed congressional maps in Texas.

The maps move some Democratic incumbents out of their current districts and pla

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