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In sports, the winning team doesn’t get to rewrite the rules to guarantee it’ll never lose again. In a democracy, the same principle should hold: Winning an election shouldn’t allow a party to rewrite the rules so it’s no longer accountable to the electorate.

But Republicans are turning Texas into a testing ground for exactly that kind of power grab. At Donald Trump’s urging, GOP lawmakers launched a mid-decade redistricting push designed to lock in their advantage. With only 62 seats in the House compared with the Republicans’ 88, Democrats had no real power to stop it—except by leaving. They broke quorum, fleeing the Capitol to stall the vote. Texas has seen t

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