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Rep. Jolanda Jones Apologizes for Comparing Texas Redistricting Plan to Holocaust
TEXAS, AUG 6 – Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state to block a Republican redistricting plan they say targets minority voters, with Rep. Jolanda Jones apologizing for comparing it to the Holocaust.
- On Monday, over 50 Texas Democratic House members fled the state to block a Republican plan to redraw congressional maps adding five GOP seats.
- The Democrats left to avoid a vote on the redistricting plan accused of targeting majority-minority districts and violating the Voting Rights Act.
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the arrest of absent Democrats, calling them "delinquent," and Speaker Dustin Burrows authorized arrest warrants if needed.
- Texas Democrat Rep. Jolanda Jones compared the redistricting fight to the Holocaust on Don Lemon's show but apologized on Tuesday, saying, "That was a mistake" and retracted it.
- The standoff suggests intensifying political conflict in Texas, with GOP efforts to secure more House seats and Democrats protesting possible minority voter disenfranchisement.
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Texas Democratic state Rep. Jolanda Jones apologized Tuesday for comparing Republican efforts to redraw the Lone Star State’s congressional maps to the slaughter of more than 6 million Jewish people during the Holocaust.
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Texas state Democrat apologizes for likening redistricting to Holocaust
Texas Democratic state Rep. Jolanda Jones offered an apology for comments she made Tuesday comparing the party’s fight against Republicans‘ mid-decade redistricting plan to the Holocaust. Jones is one of more than 50 state Democrats who left Texas to postpone a legislative session to vote on new congressional maps that would add as many as five new GOP House seats before the 2026 midterm elections, an attempt spearheaded by President Donald Trum…
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