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Watch live coverage as DNC Chair Ken Martin joins Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to reinforce the Texas Democratic lawmakers who have fled their state to stop Republicans from redrawing district lines in their favor, the day before the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. About 30 Texas Democrats left the state to keep the legislature from having a quorum to vote on new congressional maps. The new maps would create as many as five more GOP-leaning U.S. House districts, which could keep the majority in Republican control.

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