BREAKING: The Texas House votes to issue arrest warrants for Democrats who left the state to block the GOP from taking a vote on its congressional redistricting plan. However, an election lawyer says the warrant is likely “not effective” outside of Texas. From: @jenrice.bsky.social
Thank God you're not immigrants or you'd REALLY have a reason to fear arrest.
🤣
Wow, they don’t even try to hide it anymore. Corruption on full display.
It's time to hate Texas like Canada hates us- for reasons of perfidy, stupidity, and vengeance. Throw in treason if you like.
Republicans are childish losers. No offense to children. They are strongarming their pathway to cheating, literally saying outloud "republicans cannot win without cheating." Republicans are also crying because the dems are making it hard and telling on them for being dirty cheaters. They are weak
Thankful for Governors in the Blue 💙 states of NY and IL for stepping up to help the TX Republicans who've fled to their states.
Next they'll arrest them for not voting. Then for not voting the 'proper' way. Then arrest them for breathing. I wonder how Ds feel about their colleagues turning on them. Its a tiny step away from hanging them like trmp tried to do to pence. Seeing the underbelly of ppl you thought as decent sucks
Didn’t they try this before? (The GOP, I mean)
What do you get when you put Satan in a wheelchair? Kemp! With Paxton his nurse.
So can Democrats issue warrants for Mike Johnson and House Republicans for leaving DC early to avoid vote to release Epstein files????? Does this country only blow the RIGHT’S way n these games!?
Suck it, Texas.
bsky.app/profile/ryan...
It's time democrats add 10 seats. Etc.....Etc...
Congressman Kevin Kiley (R) is introducing a bill to ban all 50 states from mid decade redistricting. My suspension is that it will let the Texas redistricting slip through and then close the door
Of course it isn’t..
I have called Gov Abbot three times today. Demanding the Republicans stop the cheating for the benefit of Trump and not the Texas constituents. 1 (512) 463-2000.
Didn't the Texas AG leave the state to avoid being served a subpoena? Didn't the US Speaker of the House send everyone home to avoid having to have a vote about releasing the Epstein files?
As Emil Bove would say...
ICE, ICE, Baby. #shitholecountry
If that cosplaying asshole Abbott sends TX Rangers to to try to serve arrest warrants they're going to run head-on into some Illinois state troopers who will take them apart.
They have no jurisdiction on IL… It’s performative BS for TX MAGA dolts.
*In Illinois
So it's OK to shut down congress to avoid releasing the Epstein files but it's not OK to boycott the Texas chamber to prevent election rigging also ordered by the president.
My thoughts exactly 👍
This is such petty, vindictive bullshit. They're going to be arrested because they refuse to show up at their office? They're working remotely - doing their job to try to save the state and the country from authoritarianism.
The Texas House without a quorum?
How could this be enforceable? How is it a crime?
Dear #CancunCruz: We have an warrant for your arrest...Same goes for #MikeJohnson for shutting down House business to avoid vote on releasing #Epstein files. Okay for me, but not for Thee. #turmpism101
How long do they have to stay out of state before they've effectively blocked the vote? Days? Weeks? Months?
Special session ends in 2 week. That said, Abbot can just call another, with each one lasting 30 days.
They didnt have a quorum....
How could they vote to arrest them if they don't have a quorum?
The Texas Constitution lays out rules for quorum busting and enforcing.
If you are familiar with the details, please explain.
I'm not Texas Constitutional scholar, but this has happened a few times before. The warrants are civil in nature and not enforceable outside of the state.
From this NPR article, it looks like the difference is that the vote to arrest was a motion, not a law. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/g...
Makes sense-- Committees have their own unique powers in the legislature.
I was also wondering this!
I love that movie "Throw Mama From The Train.
How can they issue a warrant without a quorum?
So it’s that easy to issue arrest warrants? The democrats should issue arrest warrants for republicans for illegally redistricting in a non-census year.
Fight fire with fire. They claim democrats are breaking the law when republicans are literally breaking the law. Arrest them.
You still need more votes to authorize warrants, which are civil and mainly performative in nature.
Yes!!! This!!!
Short term. In the end Republicans will win in Texas and get their 5 seats. Question is what will Dems do about it? If history is any guide the answer is absolutely nothing. Hopefully I'm wrong but...
I'll believe it when I see it...
You can believe the sky is green with Pole Dancer Pink polka-dots for all I care.
Pathetic
also interesting how they can issue a warrant without a quorum, isn't it? but as we know, the "law" is flexible when the #GOP wants to do something?
The Texas Constitution actually delineates rules for quorum busting and enforcing. This is nothing notable. The Democrats making a stand is the part worth noting.
the warrants, however, are not valid in illinois or NY. It would take the cooperation of the governors, and that sure doesn't look like that's coming any time soon.
Hah! Under the protection of the Pritz. Try again Texas.
The next vote will be for a block of time so Republican members can stomp their feet to express how mad they are.
Evil incarnate
Wow! They are pathetic.
Abbott is a pathetic little bitch with no leg to stand on.
Bwahahaha like what you did there🤣
Me too! Love every Abbott joke that rolls in!
And they’ve done what work toward disaster alert systems???
The f@cking Nazi Republicans will answer to the People! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
Performance theater. If you truly care for this country, go talk to the democrats who left to save democracy.
Get a shirt or a sticker: money goes towards billboards to piss trump off. wokemutiny.myshopify.com
So how exactly does arresting the Dems allow for the #quorum they need help the GOP?
All Media immediately stopped talking about the politically motivated assassination of a Democrat politician, in her home! Media prostitutes #TeamLuigiForever
Your # alone is enough for me to follow you! 💙
We’re at war People on the left (everybody who isn’t a MAGA) need to stop pretending the toothpaste is going back in the tube It’s been asymmetrical warfare for a decade- and half of us apparently still think we’re just playing little board games with set rules
Decades*
It’s actually been nearly the entirety of human experience since at least halfway through Rome but i don’t want to freak people out. America is undeniably built on mass human sacrifice. The fascists are just renewing the contract.
Fair enough
Fight for Unconditional Surrender Or what the picture says The ONLY 2 options, now There is no "waiting for the votes"
I don’t know who that is
Watch Apocalypse Now… It’s a CIA spook telling Martin Sheen’s character to eliminate a rogue general Kurtz (Marlon Brando) who’s gone MAD.
I watched Apocalypse Now in 1990. I just didn’t recognize the dude. The framing of that image made it seem more modern and I assumed it was a recent movie or TV character.
more than a decade…mcconnell planned the takeover of the courts over 30 years ago…and executed it brilliantly
He was up against some weak sauce The dems thought they could play volleyball and go to fancy dinner with these people, be buddies, and the whole time republicans were planning how they would pick the meat off their bones
Arrest warrants on what charge?? TEXAS IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT STATES!!
Dumbasses.....
They think THEY can do anything they want but democrats must just sit and take it with no action. Bullshit! Fafo
Republicans, however, are free to commit actual crimes in Texas when they lose. www.ibtimes.com/changing-tim...
imagine capitalizing on the drowning death of 27 children to make a power grab…there is no bottom for abbott…
You mean the Texas House Republicans.
Fucking Repugs all need to be horse whipped and imprisoned.
Performative bullshit
It’s getting exciting down there. Reminds me of a similar action by WI dems back under Scooter’s administration. Rachel Maddow said “WI you have won!!” Some sleazy middle of the night bullshit allowed for a vote anyway - Act 10 related.
Bunch of buffoons.
Holy moly, this is insanity. These people are bending to the leader like an absolute cult.
So they all went on a group vacation… was the problem!
Dred Scott decision. #JailTrump #DredScott
How can they vote to do anything if they don't have a quorum?
But they don’t have a quorum🤷🏼♀️
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) threatened to “remove the missing Democrats from membership in the Texas House” and use his “full extradition authority to demand the return to Texas.” Abbott would be unable to use his extradition powers because no criminal offense has been committed by Democrats.
Abbott is a f-ing Nazi.
bsky.app/profile/ryan...
Whew 😓 This is a lot
The big question is: will judges and SCOTUS agree or do whatever Abbott and Trump want them to do!?
Ahhhhhhh
Can Texas recall Abbott or House Members that are turning the state into a Dictatorship?
Does Gov. Abbott have the right to arrest congress for not going to work? Is vacation now illegal in Texas? 😱
Hey, Greg. The people will gladly wheel you into the Nuremberg Trials.
Every state needs to STOP gerrymandering. An independent committee should draw the districts in every state. And, they should NOT have info on the political affiliation of the residents. Only way to do it right.
Such. Thin. Skin.
Can we expel Texas from the United States - and maybe take Florida with them?
That doesn't work with ICE. Abbott is so evil he'll probably try to send them all to CECOT.
I'll huff and puff and blow the house down.
How about if the "missing" democrats remove Abbott
What everyone fails to realize though is what is "legal" no longer matters with Trump loyalists everywhere from the State House to the supreme Court. They now get to make the rules and those "rules and laws" can be bent whichever way to benefit them only.
This is getting beyond crazy!
Texas house you are proving how ludicrous and wasteful you are!
The civil warrants issued in Texas are only valid in Texas.
Arrested for what?
The drama mama!
You mean all the Texas Republicans voted to arrest the Democrats, because the Republicans are having a hissy fit that the Democrats are not allowing them to cheat and take away voting rights. Sounds very Project 2025 to me. Also the lying corrupt rapist in the WH is a pedophile. #TACOPedo
💯
Fuck Governor Hot Wheels
F&() Texas! Every state should enact a non-political commission to draw voting district maps!!!
Abbott is 💩
Fighting the good fight! Go Texas Dems!
Time for dems in congress to step up to the plate
Pfft! Good luck with that.
Is it actually illegal? What's the crime? A special crime written only for Democratic lawmakers in Texas I presume. In OR we petitioned and then voted to dock pay when the GOP members did that, but not sure even that was actionable. Soundbites only?
It is all in the Texas Constitution. This is all just a legislative dance.
Sounds counterproductive. If they don’t go back to Texas in the next couple of weeks, they won’t get arrested.
