Texas Democrats seek support at St. Sabina Church amid a redistricting battle involving allegations of gerrymandering.

Democratic state lawmakers in Texas have left the state to avoid a vote on redistricting despite Republican pressure.

With the carved image of Martin Luther King Jr. as their backdrop, state House Democrats from Indiana and Texas, in a show of cross-state solidarity, coalesced in Chicago’s Marquette Park to highlight their joint resistance against Republican-led redistricting plans.