Texas Democrats have become famous, or infamous, depending on who you talk to, for cutting and running to try and stop Republican state lawmakers from passing legislation they don’t like, and history has repeated itself in 2025.
As RedState reported, Democrats there fled into the arms of Illinois Gov. and prospective 2028 presidential candidate JB Pritzker (D) on Sunday after Republicans unveiled a new Congressional map that some have called a “bloodbath” for Democrats headed into the 2026 midterms if enacted.
“We’re not walking out on our responsibilities; we’re walking out on a rigged system that refuses to listen to the people we represent. As of today, this corrupt special session is over,” Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu proclaimed in a statement.
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Already, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is laying the smack down on those who fled amid the special session, noting that consequences could soon be coming, including arrests on abandonment grounds and possibly appointing others to fill the vacancies created thanks to Democrats deliberately walking off the job.
Though infuriating on one hand, on the other, you have to laugh at this stage in the game. I mean, as we pointed out, going to Illinois, which is home to one of the most corrupt and blatantly rigged Democrat political machines in the country, is not exactly the brightest idea these folks have had.
But to make matters worse for them, some of the Texas Democrats went to another blue state that is well-known for gerrymandering:
Texas Democrats who left their state met with Gov. Kathy Hochul in Albany after a standoff over redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump.
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“We won’t sit on the sidelines while Republicans try to rig the system to give Donald Trump more unchecked power,” Hochul said in a statement. “Texas Democrats are standing up for the future of our democracy, and I’m proud to stand with them in the fight against disenfranchisement.”
New York Governor Kathy Hochul joined Texas Democrats in condemning the Republicans’ plan to redraw the state’s congressional map. Hochul called the redistricting plan a “blatant power grab.”
Read more about Democrats’ move to leave the state: https://t.co/kjkmeQ6BGi pic.twitter.com/1yWoluVQEX
— WFAA (@wfaa) August 4, 2025
Right. Because if there is a state in this country that stands up for “our democracy” and voters, it’s New York, where they’ve worked to contain Republican representation to a very bare minimum even after getting slapped down:
The New York one is especially hilarious. Democrats gerrymandered New York after the 2020 census, their own liberal state Supreme Court threw out their map, a bipartisan commission redrew it –leading to a Republican gain in 2022– after which they redrew it to eliminate three…
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 4, 2025
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Even some in the mainstream media have noticed how bad this looks and are calling the Texas Democrats out:
Was there nobody on the PR side who was like maybe we shouldn’t go to one of the most corrupt gerrymandered states in the country? https://t.co/ahNLnUJGT0
— Andrew Kaczynski (@KFILE) August 4, 2025
Apparently not.
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