Texas's push to gerrymander districts outside of a Census count has now spread to other red states like Indiana and Missouri. Texas state Democrats fled the state to break the Republicans' quorum, defying legal threats and arrest warrants to seek refuge in Sacramento, Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts.

And so that is what these Texas Democrats are trying to stand up against." With Republicans — at the direction of President Donald Trump — pushing a rare mid-decade redraw of the Texas legislative maps,