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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is getting really mad.<\/span>Todd Kirkland\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An old-fashioned Western<\/span> showdown is happening in Texas right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On one side you have Texas House Democrats who fled the state<\/a> over the weekend to stop Texas Republicans from carrying out Trump\u2019s orders to redraw the state\u2019s maps.\u00a0And Texas governor Greg Abbott who is very, very upset about it all. As of this writing, the move seems to have worked: the Texas House has failed<\/a> to reach a quorum for two consecutive days. Now, Texas Senator John Cornyn\u00a0wants the FBI to hunt down the Democrats and arrest them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this video I explain the standoff, the stakes and how both Republicans and Democrats are using the tool at their disposal to advance\u2014or impede\u2014competing visions for America.<\/p>\n

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