{"id":1055629,"date":"2025-08-15T13:33:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055629"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:46:10","slug":"dnc-chair-ken-martin-applauds-texas-democrats-for-prevailing-against-abbotts-first-sham-special-session-pledges-to-continue-fight-against-trumps-rigged-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-applauds-texas-democrats-for-prevailing-against-abbotts-first-sham-special-session-pledges-to-continue-fight-against-trumps-rigged-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Chair Ken Martin Applauds Texas Democrats for Prevailing Against Abbott\u2019s First Sham Special Session, Pledges to Continue Fight Against Trump\u2019s Rigged Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to the courage of Texas Democrats, today, the first special legislative session in Texas ended without passage of gerrymandered congressional maps. Texas Democrats have already mobilized Democrats across the country to join the fight against Donald Trump and Republicans\u2019 attack on Americans&#8217; rights. The DNC applauds their efforts and pledges to continue to fight against Trump\u2019s rigged maps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to Governor Greg Abbott\u2019s sham first special session adjourning without passing Donald Trump\u2019s rigged maps, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Chair Ken Martin issued the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump and House Republicans passed a devastating budget that hurts working and middle-class Americans \u2014 all to make the ultrarich even richer. Now, terrified of repercussions from their angry constituents, Trump and Republicans are trying to take power away from American voters just to hang on to their razor-thin House majority. Texas Democrats are standing on the frontlines of this attack as corrupt Governor Abbott continues to use the suffering of flood victims as a pretext to gerrymander House districts for the Republican Party. Under threats to their safety and livelihood, Texas Democrats have continued to deny Republicans a quorum to enact their rigged maps and ignited a national Democratic movement. From California to Washington, D.C, Democrats will continue to stand with the American people and the people of Texas as we battle against Trump and Republicans\u2019 anti-democratic attacks. The fight continues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Democrats are fighting back against Donald Trump\u2019s scheme to rig congressional midterm maps:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>After enduring bomb threats and attempts at arrest and expulsion, Texas Democrats held firm and blocked Trump\u2019s efforts to rig the Texas maps this session.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The DNC is supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=90379082c3d9e6a03baf3f677&amp;id=ade36d40d3&amp;e=c8dcf51bd5\">nationwide protests<\/a> to fight back against Donald Trump\u2019s authoritarian power grabs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The DNC launched an ongoing campaign against Trump and Republicans\u2019 gerrymandering scheme in Texas, sending over <strong>250,000 texts to voters<\/strong> and marshaling <strong>30,000 volunteers <\/strong>to reach persuadable Republican voters in key Texas House districts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chair Martin rallied with Texas House Democrats before the Texas special session began and during the quorum break.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yesterday, Governor Gavin Newsom and California Democrats unveiled the<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=90379082c3d9e6a03baf3f677&amp;id=8acdcc0857&amp;e=c8dcf51bd5\">Election Rigging Response Act<\/a> to counteract Republicans\u2019 hijacking of congressional maps.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The California ballot measure will level the playing field, making sure that voters \u2014 and not Donald Trump \u2014 choose who serves in the House of Representatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Democrats are fighting day and night for free and fair elections and against the plot to rig the rules of our elections for Donald Trump and billionaires\u2019 gain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the courage of Texas Democrats, today, the first special legislative session in Texas ended without passage of gerrymandered congressional maps. Texas Democrats have already mobilized Democrats across the country to join the fight against Donald Trump and Republicans\u2019 attack on Americans&#8217; rights. The DNC applauds their efforts and pledges to continue to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Chair Ken Martin Applauds Texas Democrats for Prevailing Against Abbott\u2019s First Sham Special Session, Pledges to Continue Fight Against Trump\u2019s Rigged Maps - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-applauds-texas-democrats-for-prevailing-against-abbotts-first-sham-special-session-pledges-to-continue-fight-against-trumps-rigged-maps\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-15T17:33:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-21T16:46:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-applauds-texas-democrats-for-prevailing-against-abbotts-first-sham-special-session-pledges-to-continue-fight-against-trumps-rigged-maps\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-applauds-texas-democrats-for-prevailing-against-abbotts-first-sham-special-session-pledges-to-continue-fight-against-trumps-rigged-maps\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Chair Ken Martin Applauds Texas Democrats for Prevailing Against Abbott\u2019s First Sham Special Session, Pledges to Continue Fight Against Trump\u2019s Rigged Maps - 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