Texas Democrats leave state in bid to stonewall GOP voting bills

A group of nearly 60 Texas Democrats left the Lone Star State in a bid to stonewall a pair of Republican-backed voting reform bills.

At least 58 legislators in the state’s House of Representatives were projected to flee Austin on Monday to paralyze the chamber until they return to the Texas Capitol, according to NBC News, which cited a source familiar with the matter. The majority of the disgruntled lawmakers will be boarding private jets and flying to Washington, D.C., to rendezvous with others in support of federal voting bills that would expand provisions such as early and mail-in voting.