# Texas 2025 redistricting standoff -- what is endgame?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 5, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-2025-redistricting-standoff-what-is-endgame/1021745 "2025-08-05T23:21:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-2025-redistricting-standoff-what-is-endgame/1021745/44 "2025-08-08T12:17:05Z")

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> [@What will be the "last straw" in the administration's assault on our country / democracy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-last-straw-in-the-administrations-assault-on-our-country-democracy/1021676/158):
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> Given the largest group are in Illinois this will be interesting. Gov. Pritzker is being defiant

What could he do? Station Illinois state troopers at the hotel the Democratic lawmakers are staying at with orders to arrest any FBI agents that show up for attempted or actual kidnapping? Short of that, I think any measures are going to be merely symbolic.

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