Former President Barack Obama is applauding Texas Democrats for leaving their state in an attempt to block the passage of a Republican-led redistricting effort.

Former President Obama sat down with Texas Democrats to lay out what is at stake as they protest Trump’s request for state Republicans to gerrymander Texas’s congressional map. Meghan Hays and Matthew Dowd discuss this new wrinkle in a growing national redistricting battle and reporting Obama called New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Former President Barack Obama accused Lone Star State Republicans of seeking to engage in gerrymandering in "a power grab that undermines our democracy"

"This is a power grab that undermines our democracy," former President Barack Obama wrote in a post condemning Texas Republicans.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed federal prosecutors to launch a grand jury investigation into accusations that Obama administration officials manufactured intelligence about Russia’s 2016 election interference,

The departure of Texas Democrats who spent two weeks in suburban Chicago evading a vote in their state on a Republican-backed redrawing of congressional district boundaries has not ended the conversation on partisan gerrymandering in Illinois.

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Texas Republicans forced Democrats to sign a slip authorizing a police officer to surveil them until Wednesday, when the House is scheduled to reconvene.