Donald Trump has been back in the Oval Office as 47th president of the United States for a little over six months. In that time, he has kept the world economy busy with ever more punitive tariffs, hammered away at the foundations of American democracy, severely limited the rights of minorities such as the LGBTQ community in the US and militarized immigration policy.

Opposition to the policies of Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans (GOP) has been voiced loud enough to be heard on the international stage on only a few occasions. Things have to be pretty spectacular to cut through the din, like the No Kings Day marches on June 14 — when millions of people across the country hit the streets to protest what they said was Trump acting more like an all-powerful monarch than a democratically elected president.

Now, Texas' Democratic lawmakers are taking a stand. More than 50 Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives — the lower house of the state's bicameral legislature — fled the state on Sunday in order to halt a key vote. Votes in the Texas House require two thirds of legislators to be present. There are a total of 150 seats in the Texas House of Representatives in Austin, Democrats hold 62 of........

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