The money stopped first, a silent signal that the rules of the game had fundamentally shifted. Then came the fines—five hundred dollars a day, ticking upward like a meter that no one could shut off. In a stunning display of legislative leverage, Texas Republicans moved to cut off direct deposits and impose mounting financial penalties on the runaway Democrats who fled the state to break quorum. Careers, marriages, and political futures now hang on one impossible cho… Continue reading…
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