{"id":14036,"date":"2025-08-04T19:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=14036"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:52:21","slug":"texas-democrats-leave-state-to-block-vote-on-gerrymandered-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=14036","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrats Leave State to Block Vote on Gerrymandered Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Texas Democrats Leave State to Block Vote on Gerrymandered Map<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Texas Democrats Leave State to Block Vote on Gerrymandered Map<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">The legislators\u2019 departure was a last-ditch effort to stop Republicans from adopting a redrawn congressional map that would flip five Democratic congressional districts to favor Republicans.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cThe tool they\u2019re using is a racist, gerrymandered map. A map that seeks to use racial lines to divide hard-working communities, who have spent decades building up their power and strengthening their voices. And Governor Abbott is doing this in submission to Donald Trump.\u201d \u201cWhile Texans are waiting for relief, Republican leaders are redrawing maps to silence voters, hijack our democracy and this doesn\u2019t stop with Texas. This isn\u2019t just about the people who voted for us. It\u2019s about every American who believes that the power belongs to the people, not one man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recent episodes in <span class=\"css-1galvr2\">U.S. &amp; Politics<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Show more videos from U.S. &amp; Politics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Texas Democrats Leave State to Block Vote on Gerrymandered Map transcript Back transcript Texas Democrats Leave State to Block Vote on Gerrymandered Map The legislators\u2019 departure was a last-ditch effort to stop Republicans from adopting a redrawn congressional map that would flip five Democratic congressional districts to favor Republicans. \u201cThe tool they\u2019re<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[847,581,7683,2957,2415,199,1010,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-14036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-block","9":"tag-democrats","10":"tag-gerrymandered","11":"tag-leave","12":"tag-map","13":"tag-state","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-vote"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}