The Texas Democrats fled the state on Sunday to prevent the Republicans from approving a recent US house map that could augment their slim majority of congress in 2026.
With the strike, the minority party can keep the Republicans from having enough votes for cards that would add five recent Republican congress areas. The proposed borders raised the democratically directed urban centers in which most of the 30 million people of the state live.
Although such theaters are unusual, both parties have used strikes to refuse Quorum in state legislators from Oregon to New Hampshire. In some places, walking in the job, whether for a day or months, has led to punishments such as fines, arrest of threats or out of the ballot.
“We leave Texas to fight for Texans,” said Gene Wu, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, in a statement on Sunday. “We do not assume our responsibility. We assume a manipulated system that refuses to listen to the people we represent.”
Here is a closer look at how the legislator has used strikes across the country.
Texas
Four years ago, the Texas Democrats went to Washington DC for a proposal for voting restrictions and fled to Washington
Although you initially successfully killed the measure, you could not block the plan during a special meeting when the Republicans had the law enforcement authorities to bring the Democrats back. The patient situation lasted more than a month. The legislation banned 24-hour electoral stations, forbidden passages and received more access to partisan conjunction.
The Democrats in the state used the same tactics in 2003 when the members of the house went to Oklahoma and the senators traveled to New Mexico. They could not thwart a Republican congress plan.
Oregon
The legislators of Oregon both parties have boycotted daily meetings in one or both chambers since the 1970s. After several GOP strikes, voters approved a change in the state constitution in 2022, which requested the legislator to re -election if they have more than 10 unexcused absences in a single annual legislative period.
In 2023, the Republicans organized a six-week boycott-at longest in the history of the legislator of Oregon-over measures to protect abortion rights and gender-specific care for transgender people. Ten legislators were excluded from the search for a re -election the following year.
New Hampshire
In 2021, the Democrats of New Hampshire assumed when a legislative template voted against abortions and protested against what they saw as partisan manipulation of the calendar. This prompted the Republican House spokesman to block the doors to maintain a quorum.
“I just spoil the doors so that everyone will stay in the chamber in the chamber!” House speaker Sherman Packard, who later refused to coordinate the Democrat again on the draft law.
Wisconsin
The senators of the democratic state from Wisconsin fled to the neighbors Illinois in 2011 and blocked a vote on the plan of GOP governor Scott Walker to withdraw most public workers of their trade union rights. At the same time, protesters from Pro-Union relegated to the State Capitol.
The patient situation ended a few weeks later after the Republicans weakened their legislation.
Indiana
The Democrats of Indiana left the state for Illinois in 2011 to prevent a republican bill that prohibits mandatory union fees. The lack of Democrats left the house just before the two thirds required for a quorum.
The Democrats threatened to stay in Illinois until they assured them by the top leaders that the law was not called, while Republican leaders said they would not negotiate with legislators who did not occur to their jobs.
The Republicans successfully passed the legislation the following year.
