Democratic governors in blue states—including New York’s Kathy Hochul, California’s Gavin Newsom, and Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker—have offered safe haven and political backing to the lawmakers who fled Texas. Hochul appeared with a group of them Monday in Albany and called the GOP’s redistricting effort a “modern-day stagecoach heist.”

Texas Democrats have left the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will net them several additional U.S. House seat