Texas Democrats face a republican deadline to stop the confrontation or face consequences

Texas Democrats face a republican deadline to stop the confrontation or face consequences

Texas Democrats on Friday are preparing for another day challenging Republican governor Greg Abbott and the State Republican Party while trying to advance with a redistribution of controversial districts.

The Texas Chamber will meet as Republican legislators say that Friday is the deadline for Democratic legislators who have fled the State to return or face consequences.

Republicans of the House of Representatives will try to vote on the new Maps of Congress proposed to the Republican Party that would give the most seats in Congress, which could allow the Republican Party to maintain control of the United States Representatives House in Washington.

Abbott has also requested the Supreme Court of Texas to eliminate the State Democratic Representative Gene Wu, the minority leader of the House of Representatives of Texas, of the position for the challenge of the Democrats. The court gave Wu until 6 pm on Friday to respond to the case of the governor.

The Maps of the United States Congress are shown as the Special Committee of the Senate on the redistribution of Congress districts meets to listen to the guest testimony about Plan C2308 of Congress in the Capitol of the State of Texas on August 6, 2025 in Austin, Texas.

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Wu told ABC News on Thursday that he believes that his Caucus will remain on Friday and once again will deny the legislature a quorum, although he said they would be willing to return to Austin if the state Republicans promise to focus only on other issues before the special session, including flood mitigation and disaster preparation.

It is likely that the Democrats who have fled the State remained away until August 19, the end of the special session, which means that there will be enough legislators present for the Texas house to carry out businesses.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told Fox News on Friday that he is willing to take other Democrats to court if they do not return.

“If they appear today, we are all happy, we can do our business and they are all good. If they do not appear, we will be in a room in the Illinois room … [trying] To take them to the state of Texas, keep them in contempt, and if they refuse to come, luckily puts them in jail, “he said.

He shrunk concerns that the optics of arresting the Democrats would give them a public opinion victory.

“I think in Texas, I don’t know what it is like in other states, but I know that in Texas, people expect their representatives to work,” Paxton said.

The president of the Texas house, Dustin Burrows, pointed to the wallets of the absent members in an effort to attract them.

On Thursday, he sent a memorandum to all members and their staff that required that any member who is absent from the special session to break the quorum must collect their monthly person. The direct deposits were suspended for those who jump until the house reaches the quorum, according to Memo.

Abbott has asked for the arrest of the Democrats, and Republican Senator John Cornyn has asked the FBI to track elected officials.

The governor said in a podcast published on Friday that he was willing to go beyond creating more than five new seats that the Republican party could turn if the Democrats continued to block.

The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, speaks during a round table with President Donald Trump, the first to respond and local officials at the Hill Country Youth Event Center in Kerville, Texas, during a tour to observe flood damage, on July 11, 2025.

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“We can do it six or seven or eight new seats that we are going to add on the Republican side,” he said during an interview in the “ruthless” podcast.

Meanwhile, Texas Democrats have fled to several blue states, including Illinois and California.

The Texas representative, Gene Wu, speaks in front of the Democratic members of Congress and the Democrats of the Texas House of Representatives during a press conference, on August 4, 2025 in Warrenville, Illinois.

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California Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, is scheduled to hold a press conference with those Democrats on Friday afternoon, along with representative Nancy Pelosi and state democrats in California to show their support.

“The governor and state leaders have made a possible voting measure throughout the State that would reaffirm California’s commitment to the redistribution of national independent districts and allow voters to temporarily adjust the map of the State Congress only if Texas or other states led by the Republican Party manipulate theirs,” said Newsom’s office in a statement.

California Democrats are preparing to respond to the new Congress districts proposed by Texas Republicans by aiming five districts controlled by the Republican Party in the Golden State, the sources recently confirmed to the ABC Kgo-TV station. But the Office of California Secretary of State told ABC News that if legislators do not move quickly, it becomes almost impossible for the State to execute a state election that meets federal standards.

Monica Madden of the ABC Kgo-TV station contributed to this report.

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