New York Governor Kathy Hochul delivered a forceful rebuke this week of the latest redistricting efforts in Texas, denouncing them as a racially discriminatory power grab orchestrated by Republicans — and warning that Democrats across the country must not allow history to repeat itself.

Texas state Rep. Ann Johnson, one of the Democrats who fled the state for Illinois, told CNN’s Pamela Brown that she viewed the quorum break as a “last tool” available to her and her colleagues to protest the Republican-backed redistricting effort.

The political skirmish over redistricting comes as the administration of President Donald J. Trump seeks to flip five Democrat congressional seats in Texas