Texas has been the epicenter of Trump’s push to gerrymander congressional maps to shore up Republicans’ narrow House majority before next year.

Following through on his pledge to use all means necessary to find, arrest and return absconding House Democrats to Texas, the Texas House, led by House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, sued Democrats hiding out in California.

“We are running from nothing,” said Texas state Rep. Ann Johnson, one of a group of state Democrats who fled Texas to deny Republicans quorum. “We see the danger that is coming and we are running straight for it.”