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Texas Democratic lawmakers flee state to thwart voting restrictions By Julia Harte Reuters (Reuters) - Dozens of Democratic lawmakers left Texas on Monday as part of an orchestrated move to derail their Republican colleagues efforts to pass new voting restrictions and other conservative measures during a special legislative session. Calling from an airplane headed to Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon, Texas state Representative Alex Dominguez told Reuters that nearly everyone in the House of Representatives 67-member Democratic caucus had fled the state. The exodus is intended to deny the legislature the quorum needed to approve any of the measures on Republican Governor Greg Abbott s special-session agenda, including bills restricting abortion access and blocking transgender students from competing in athletics that correspond with their gender identity.

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