{"id":870311,"date":"2025-09-03T23:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/texas-democrats-leave-state-in-bid-to-stop-new-congressional-map\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:14:14","slug":"texas-democrats-leave-state-in-bid-to-stop-new-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/texas-democrats-leave-state-in-bid-to-stop-new-congressional-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Democrats leave state in bid to stop new congressional map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic members of the Texas state legislature left the state Sunday as part of a bid to block Republicans from redrawing the congressional map to make five additional seats favorable to the GOP. The move to leave the state and deny a quorum drew cheers from Texas Democrats in Congress&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2025\/08\/04\/texas-democrats-leave-state-in-bid-to-stop-new-congressional-map\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Bong Stoval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic members of the Texas state legislature left the state Sunday as part of a bid to block Republicans from redrawing the congressional map to make five additional seats favorable to the GOP. The move to leave the state and deny a quorum drew cheers from Texas Democrats in Congress&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":870312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,192,836],"tags":[5780,5979],"class_list":{"0":"post-870311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-democrats","8":"category-sports","9":"category-texas","10":"tag-democrats","11":"tag-texas"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}