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https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/12/its-over-texas-democrats-wil l-return-home-and-the-new-map-will-be-approved-n4942644

The war over Texas� congressional maps is nearly over, and conservatives emerged victorious.

ABC13 Eyewitness News reports that multiple sources have confirmed House Democrats are finally coming back to Texas. They haven�t said exactly
when, but apparently, they think they�ve achieved some grand victory by
killing the first special session and grabbing a few headlines about the mid-decade redistricting fight. In reality, all they�ve done is waste
taxpayer money, embarrass themselves on the national stage, and
guarantee that the new map will still pass, just without the drama next
time.

It is unclear which day they will be in Austin at the Capitol, but they
stress that they will push for Hill Country flooding relief to be the
priority.

This comes as the House went another session without a quorum on
Tuesday, with just 95 members present for the second day in a row. Texas
House Speaker Dustin Burrows said that assuming there is no quorum on
Friday, the session will end, and a new one will begin.

Hours later, the Senate actually passed a new map that benefits
Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. It's the same map that
passed out of committee in the House and precipitated more than 50 House Democrats to break quorum.

Democrats in the Senate walked out in protest, but a quorum remained.
Sources told ABC13 that Senate Democrats will not break quorum.

It�s not all that surprising. The Democratic Party, the worst offenders
when it comes to gerrymandering, throwing a conniption over Republican redistricting, was the epitome of hypocrisy, and to top that off, Texas Democrats fled to the heavily gerrymandered state of Illinois: a stunt
so tone-deaf that it practically wrote its own punchline. Democrats were
going to cave eventually; it was only a matter of when.

Something tells me that when Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to keep calling
special sessions until the new map was passed, they knew they were beat.

�This could literally last years because in Texas, I�m authorized to
call a special session every thirty days. It lasts thirty days,� he told
Fox News host Shannon Bream on Monday, promising to keep calling session
after session relentlessly. �As soon as this one is over, I�m gonna call another one, then another one, then another one, then another one.�

Recommended: Here�s More Terrifying News for the Democratic Party

When it comes to gerrymandering, Democrats are the undisputed champions.
Four of the five most gerrymandered states, Illinois, California, New
Jersey, and New York, are all under full Democratic control. Their congressional maps hand Democrats far more seats than their actual vote
totals warrant. Illinois, for instance, gives Democrats a staggering
27-point edge in representation, even though they only won 55% of the presidential vote. California and New Jersey aren�t far behind, each
showing double-digit advantages for Democrats.

The only state making the list with a significant Republican presence is
North Carolina, with a 20-point GOP edge. But Texas, often slammed as
the GOP�s gerrymandering poster child, actually has a smaller partisan
gap. Republicans won 56% of the presidential vote and hold 66% of the congressional seats, a 10-point advantage that will grow with the new
map, but still pales compared to the distortions cooked up in Democratic bastions.

The facts don�t lie. The worst gerrymanders are in blue states, and that advantage has propped up Democrats even as they lose the national House
popular vote. What�s happening in Texas isn�t an attack on democracy;
it�s a long-overdue correction. No amount of grandstanding from
lawmakers playing hide-and-seek in Illinois will change that reality.

Texas Democrats finally realized they were fighting a losing battle. Now
the Texas Senate has approved the map, sending it to the State House for
final passage, leaving Democrats to grumble about something else.

Texas Democrats fled the state to dodge responsibility, but their
disappearing act couldn't stop the inevitable GOP victory in
redistricting.


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