Texas Democrat Legislators Who Fled Give

Texas Democrat legislators who fled to Illinois and New York are starting to communicate to the press, and while my requirements for the left are low, my expectations for how loopy they’d be had been by some means still outdone right here. 

As CrimsonState reported, the 51 legislators broke the law and deserted their seats to depart the state and deny a quorum to Republicans, who try to cross a new congressional map. Arrest warrants have already been authorised, and Gov. Greg Abbott has approved the Texas Department of Public Safety to implement them. They are also being fined for every single day they’re absent. 

SEE: Texas House Passes Arrest Warrants for Democrats Who Fled, Gov. Abbott Takes Immediate Action

All of this surrounds a push to redistrict so that Texas is more in line with gerrymanders like California, where Democrats take pleasure in an overwhelming benefit in contrast to their vote totals. Ironically, many of the Democrats who fled the state ended up in Illinois, which has a far worse gerrymander than something being proposed in their own state. 

In a transfer to attempt to win public sympathy, those Texas Democrats are now doing interviews. Yeah, about that. Here’s how that’s going.  

Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones, who fled the state to Illinois, compares redistricting to the Holocaust.

To the nodding approvals of Don Lemon. pic.twitter.com/Zj3AUnfkBN

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 5, 2025

JONES: And then integration occurred and all the things thought they settle for us. They do not settle for us. They are exhibiting us who they’re. We ought to belive them, and we higher have the braveness to stand up, in any other case we are going to fall for something, and in this nation, we will likely be defeated, deported, I imply, we are going to lose all of our rights. If you assume it could possibly’t occur, it could possibly. 

And I might liken this to the Holocaust. People are like, “Well, how did the Holocaust happen? How was somebody in a position to kill all them people?” Well, good people stay silent, or good people did not understand that what occurs to them can very soon occur to me or any person I like. And so, and so, even if you made it, man, you’ve an obligation to help people who cannot because God forbid they finish up focusing on you and your loved ones.

Nothing says “Holocaust” like politicians flying on non-public jets to luxurious motels and five-star meals paid for by donors while they refuse to do their jobs. I imply, that’s just just like the worst genocide in human historical past, is not it? 

These people just cannot help themselves. They have primary character syndrome to the purpose of mental sickness. President Donald Trump is a lot of issues. A rabid tyrant prepared to precise death and destruction on his political opponents is not one of them. If he had been, State Rep. Jolanda Jones (D-TX) and her colleagues would not be saying what they’re saying. On the opposite, their willingness to say probably the most absurd issues is proof that Trump is not what they are saying he’s. 

In one other interview, State Rep. Ann Johnson (D-TX) tried out what was clearly a well-worked speaking level. When requested about abandoning her job and operating away, she introduced up…Cancun? And Donald Trump and Georgia? 

CBS NEWS REPORTER: “You know that Republicans in the state, Republicans out of the state, look at what you guys are doing and thinking you’re running away from the fight…”

TEXAS STATE REP. ANN JOHNSON (D-HOUSTON): “Yeah, no, abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle… pic.twitter.com/f8kDhgIgW2

— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) August 5, 2025

JOHNSON: Yeah, no, abandoning your job goes to Cancun in the center of a lethal freeze, proper? Abandoning your job is cutting health care when people need access. Abandoning your job is cutting public schooling when we already have one of the worst schooling systems in the nation. What we’re doing is the basic safety and our Texas structure, that says that the minority has the chance to break quorum when you already know that the bulk has actually gone off the rails. 

Words have meanings, but not to Democrats. The swipe at Sen. Ted Cruz is particularly wealthy given that he had no position to play in the catastrophe response to the cited storm as a U.S. senator. That’s the sort of low-IQ insult a actual interviewer would have referred to as out, but that’s not current in this case. And how is deciding funding ranges on one thing like public schooling (which only will get worse the more money we dump into it) abandoning one’s job? Yet, we’re supposed to imagine that getting on a chartered jet at the behest of left-wing billionaire donors to keep away from having to show up for the position you had been elected to fill is not abandoning your job? Come on. 

Johnson then launched into a tirade about Trump and discovering 11,000 votes or one thing. What that has to do with something going on is anybody’s guess. Like I stated, her speaking level was clearly ready for her in advance, and she’s just parroting it. It’s the political equal of throwing spaghetti against the wall. Just say “Trump” enough instances and discuss about a half dozen different topics that don’t have anything to do with the difficulty at hand. 

CBS NEWS REPORTER: “You willing to go to jail over this?”

TEXAS STATE REP. ANN JOHNSON (D): “This threat of arrest, this is not normal. Do not think that we can turn into a nation where you arrest and jail your political opposition for not only rendering their voice for the… pic.twitter.com/jxHyFNU29k

— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) August 5, 2025

JOHNSON: This menace of arrest, this is just not regular. Do not assume that we are able to flip into a nation where you arrest and jail your political opposition for not only rendering their voice for the people but doing one thing that is protected by the Texas Constitution.

I’ve obtained some information for Johnson. Arresting her and dragging her down to the Texas State Capitol is also “protected by the Texas Constitution.” In truth, it is the particular treatment allowed to guarantee that the minority social gathering would not sabotage the legislative course of by refusing to present a quorum. So, possibly she ought to assume her speaking factors through a bit more next time. 

In the top, these Democrats have two selections. They can return and do their jobs as an alternative of attempting to blow up the democratic course of, or they’ll stay exiled indefinitely, racking up fines and risking their seats being vacated. Either means, this congressional map is ultimately going to cross because that’s how successful elections works.