Texas latinos are not too happy with them.

Give them respect for trying. The people of Texas voted for this, blame them. Let’s back our representatives because people who voted for republicans did this. Stop expecting democrats to save us from self inflicted wounds.

They have day jobs and the courts were not helping.

They only needed 5 to return to restore quorum.

They were being fined $500 per day.
Their pay was stopped.
The AG of Texas also shut down their source of fundraising.

In a nutshell: They each needed $500/day, but they could not fundraise and they were not getting paid. So they needed to be independently wealthy or something.

opposed to conservatives or even moderates, perhaps they would have had the financial support to ride the full period out, and then the next session if needed. But they are not.

I don’t much like the phrase, but I’m beginning to believe it fits:

Eat the billionaires!

I'm not going to blame smoke and mirrors.

Sorry, but unless blue states do the same thing, the democrats are failures. Sorry, but this party needs to really, truly examine it’s priorities… which are YOUR CONSTITUENTS….. WE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PRIORITY IN THIS GOP SHIT TAKEOVER.

I can only hope Governor Newsom means what he is saying. I can also hope any other blue state follows suit, (if able).

They don’t make money being state reps. I f you want a functioning democracy the American people must vote in every election. Blame the people of Texas for voting in people who use them and discard them so they can maintain power.

They get $7200 per year plus 230.00 or so per diem for each day they are in session.

Child care if you have children and travel to and from the capitol. Beto was raising money and a judge stepped in to stop him. The people of Texas own this, it’s up to them to vote right. Stop criticizing dems for the republicans being lap dogs of trump.

I will not stop the criticism at all. This is not just a Texas republican problem, but a lack of urgency in the democrat party in not undercutting the false and corrupt narrative messaging the republicans do so well.

With the complete and utter disregard for democracy and humanity by this administration, the democrats should have a cakewalk into the next election.

The urgent pushback, is just not present. We, the voters should not be the only voices in this. We, the voters are doing our party leadership’s work for them. Our protests, our texts, our conversations of Release The Epstein Files, Save Medicaid, We pay for our Social Security, etc. should be echoed in town halls, diners, school auditoriums every day. We have a few outstanding and outspoken representatives leading the effort, but just a few.

Fight Fire With Fire. Stop bringing a box of cookies to a gunfight. Our country truly needs the democrats to retake all 3 areas of our government, and it starts by making sure we retake the house anyway we can. If that means doing what Texas is doing, in the blue states, then do it.

Ultimately it is the people of Texas that have decided republicans are great. Deadly floods , ice storms and the governors response to Uvalde, a corrupt attorney general and things that would make thinking and feeling people vote for an armadillo before they would vote for a republican . There are no cakewalk elections in the United States because Americans are hopelessly brainwashed and selfish. Democrats can hold press conferences, no one will know about it because it will not be covered but if the fat one farts they will tell you he sprayed fancy French perfume. You can blame anyone you choose but the fault is with the American people.

Hardly poverty wage for a 90 day session--that's $2,640 per month plus the per diem. They have a bill in the Kansas legislature to raise that wage to about $43,000 or so for a 90 day session.

That's $14,333 per month,yet Republicans will never vote for a State minimum wage increase,property tax relief etc. That's a ridiculous amount for 90 days.

That would be nice.

If not for all of them who stood tall that shit Abbott and those Trump humpers are doing would have lasted one news cycle.

But, as we know - they don't

before you turn "safe" seats into competitive ones. In a wave election like 2026 is poised to be, you not only lose the new districts but the old "safe" ones, too.

This is why it's been reported the TX congressional Rs didn't really want this new map.

A bunch of f’en lemmings.

They had no vote on what the R Texas state legislature did.

the only things republican assholes are good at.
effin' bastards!!

If California, Illinois, or whoever decide to do it, then they can't bitch and whine about it. You opened a Pandora's Box.

of what little democracy remains in this country.

...does not move Republican voters to the left.

We have a golden opportunity here. The convict and the entire corrupt, cruel Republican Party, especially here in Texas are driving voters away. Let's pick them up. A 10% nudge tips Texas into the blue column.

I don't believe anyone who voted for Krasnov in 2016, 2020, or 2024 is even remotely concerned about kitchen table issues. They are evil and need to be thrown into the trash bin of history.

And that's where the old way of Democratic Thinking, and/or Leftist thinking falls apart from the base.

The base? We've got nothing to lose. We know what our enemy is and are treating them as such.

Take a look at Rep Crocketts throwing of Gabriel Arce under the bus was triggered by. We aren't playing nice. They need to sit down, shut up, and get out of REAL Patriotic Americans' way.

Other than starvation and then I have my doubts. Why should we worry about their feelings when they don’t give a damn about anyone else. You say you want democrats to fight , then you say don’t fight to hard or you may alienate them. What do you want?

But it is true.

Remember Oregon quorum stopage when the Republicans skipped town?

That is the only way to get around the media blackout.

nt

They are a minority in a rigged state. The problem is republicans.

Keyword: Prepare.

...was a PR stunt. Any idiot could predict exactly what happened once the reps congratulated themselves and returned to Texas. If you want a walkout to have any teeth, you have to stay out until you win. It's a strike, not a stunt. Sheesh.