Evening Edition: Arrest Warrants Issued For Texas Democrats Who Fled The State

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Texas Democrats who skipped town to stop redistricting efforts are now facing arrest after House Speaker Dustin Burrows signed off on civil arrest warrants, citing a “dereliction of duty”. Many of the Democrats that fled the state went to Chicago where Illinois Governor JB Pritzker rolled out the red carpet for them. Now, other Democrat Governors, Gov. Gavin Newsom in California and Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York are now vowing to conduct their own redistricting votes to combat the possible gains by Republicans in Congress. FOX’s Eben Brown speaks with Texas State Senator Mayes Middleton (R) who says his Democrat colleagues have let the State of Texas down, by not just avoiding the redistricting vote but by shutting down all legislative business, and they should face the consequences. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.5	I'm Trey Gowdy. I'm Shannon Bream. I'm Stuart Varnie, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:38.7	Tuesday, August 5th, 2025, I'm Eben Brown.
0:42.9	A large number of Texas Democrats are still far away from the legislative chambers in Austin,
0:49.4	hoping they can stop the Republican majority from redrawing the state's map of congressional districts.
0:55.7	They're throwing a tantrum right now.
0:57.3	Just because they don't think that they'll want a fight, they've quit on their job and quit on the state.
1:01.4	And that's a terrible lesson to send to everybody in this state, especially the next generation.
1:06.0	So it's fundamentally wrong, and they've got to be held accountable.
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1:11.4	Evening Edition.
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1:22.1	Thursday as we navigate life together and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side.
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1:31.7	Another day in the Texas legislature and another day when most of the Democratic lawmakers
1:36.9	refused to show up for a special session aimed at redrawing the maps of the state's
1:42.1	congressional districts. The Republicans who
1:44.4	dominate the Texas State House of Representatives and the Texas State Senate say they can give
1:49.1	their own party five more seats in the U.S. Congress if they alter the district. So Democrats
1:54.9	naturally want to avoid this, and many have flown the state, to places like Illinois to avoid the session.
2:03.2	And that means they could find themselves at the wrong end of Texas law and maybe even find
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