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Sam Levine

Texas Democrats say they are prepared to return to state after two-week absence

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Gene Wu, chair of the Texas house Democratic caucus, speaks at a press conference in Chicago on 13 August 2025. Photograph: Jim Vondruska/Getty Images

Texas Democrats said on Thursday they are prepared to return to the state under certain conditions, ending a nearly two-week-long effort to block Republicans from passing a new congressional map that would add five GOP seats.

The lawmakers said they would return as long as the legislature ends its first special session on Friday, which Republicans have said they plan to do. Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, has said he will immediately call another special session.

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