{"id":12009,"date":"2025-08-04T06:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-democrats-flee-state-in-bid-to-stop-gop-maps-from-advancing\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:20:27","slug":"texas-democrats-flee-state-in-bid-to-stop-gop-maps-from-advancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-democrats-flee-state-in-bid-to-stop-gop-maps-from-advancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrats flee state in bid to stop GOP maps from advancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas House Democrats on Sunday left the state in a bid to stop Republicans from advancing House maps that would give the GOP five more pickup opportunities ahead of 2026.&nbsp; The Texas Democrats&nbsp;said they were denying Republicans a quorum, or the minimum number of lawmakers needed present in order to conduct legislative business&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5434491-gop-redistricting-texas-democrats\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas House Democrats on Sunday left the state in a bid to stop Republicans from advancing House maps that would give the GOP five more pickup opportunities ahead of 2026.&nbsp; The Texas Democrats&nbsp;said they were denying Republicans a quorum, or the minimum number of lawmakers needed present in order to conduct legislative business&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}