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Texas Democrats say they will stay out of their state in order to block Texas Republicans' effort to redraw congressional districts.
The GOP is seeking to send up to five more Republicans to the U.S.
Congress.
The Texas Democrats have fanned out to cities in Massachusetts and Illinois.
Texas Republican officials say they'll take legal action to bring the Democrats back to vote on a new map.
is right to try to redraw the Texas districts because of political issues.
Because of what the poorest border, and in fact,
people fleeing places that the Democrats have run off to,
New York and Boston and Chicago, those people are fleeing to Texas.
Makes sense, of course, because they're tired of those blue states are coming here.
Our demographics have changed and these maps need to reflect that.
But officials in California and New York have a warning.