Democrats have left the state, the Republican governor and attorney general have vowed to remove them from office, and a senator has called in the F.B.I.

Texas, said Thursday that the FBI approved his request for federal law enforcement to help locate Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block GOP redistricting efforts. State Reps. Trey Martinez Fischer and Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos,

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott claims FBI is tracking down Democratic lawmakers who fled the state. Lawmakers who took money to help fund their absence from Texas could face prosecution, Abbott said. Experts question FBI's involvement in state politics.

State and national Republicans this week are trying to pull out all the stops to punish Democratic lawmakers who fled,... We noted yesterday that Texas AG Paxton gently criticized Gov. Abbott’s decision to bring an emergency request to the state Supreme Court to try to remove at least one Texas Democrat from office this week,