“What we all recognize is we can’t let a systematic assault on democracy just happen and stand by,” Obama said.

Former President Obama sat down with Texas Democrats to lay out what is at stake as they protest Trump’s request for state Republicans to gerrymander Texas’s congressional map.

Democrats have shown they are willing to go beyond words of outrage and use whatever power they do have to win.

The Texas plan was temporarily stalled when minority Democrats left the state to stop the Legislature from passing any bills, but some lawmakers said they’ll return to Texas now that California is mov...