{"id":12423,"date":"2025-08-18T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-democrats-have-returned-home-ending-redistricting-standoff\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:03:43","slug":"texas-democrats-have-returned-home-ending-redistricting-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-democrats-have-returned-home-ending-redistricting-standoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrats have returned home, ending redistricting standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Texas Democrats who left the state to stymie Republicans over redistricting have returned to Austin, ending a two-week standoff over President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to carve out five new GOP congressional seats.<\/p>\n<p>Their return to the state means the Texas House now has the sufficient number of legislators needed to pass a new map benefiting the GOP. Democrats had used the gambit to stall legislative business and bring national attention to Republicans\u2019 decision to pursue off-cycle redistricting ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Texas House Democratic Caucus said that members returned on Monday morning \u201cto launch the next phase in their fight against the racist gerrymander that provoked a weeks-long standoff with Governor [Greg] Abbott and President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The drama in Texas set off a national redistricting battle, most prominently with California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowing to retaliate against Texas Republicans by extracting an equal number of Democratic-leaning districts from California\u2019s congressional map. Trump has also been pushing to take his redistricting plan to other Republican-led states, like Indiana and Missouri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Democrats who left the state to stymie Republicans over redistricting have returned to Austin, ending a two-week standoff over President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to carve out five new GOP congressional seats. Their return to the state means the Texas House now has the sufficient number of legislators needed to pass a new map benefiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423","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=12423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}