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Texas House Democrats flee the state in move that could block voting restrictions bill, bring Legislature to a halt
A majority of Democrats in the Texas House left for Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon in a bid to again deny Republicans the quorum needed to pass new voting restrictions with 26 days left in a special legislative session called largely for that purpose.

The Texas dems have picked up sticks and flown to DC in protest of the special session called by Greg Abbot to ram through his voting restriction bill, among other conservative wishlist items. He had vetoed their pay to force them into a special session to vote on his pet bills to restrict voting access and keep people from making bail. The session to debate these bills would have started on the 13th, but on the 12th the dems got on a plane and flew to DC, and enough of them did that quorum can't be obtained and no work can be done.
A facetious person might call this a triumph of the political minority against the tyranny of the majority, in the same vein as the legislative filibuster in congress. Said facetious person might find any argument to the contrary hilarious.
And Texans might remember our state senator Ted Cruz up and picked up sticks in February when we were all dying of cold to go to Cancun on vacation, leaving help for the state to Beto O'Rourke and AOC.