() Texas Democrats will hold a news conference Tuesday morning about their continued fight against redistricting efforts backed by Republicans.

Lawmakers will be joined by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin, just one day before the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.

“Instead of prioritizing disaster relief for flood victims, Texas Republicans are abusing their special legislative session to tilt the electoral map in their favor in a desperate attempt to cling to their razor-thin Congressional majority during the midterms, after voting to cut health care and food benefits for millions of Texans,” the lawmakers said in a statement.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called for the lawmakers’ return and issued civil arrest orders for those who left the state. Abbott has directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to arrest and return the absent members.

Texas Democrats fled their state over the weekend to prevent a special session of the legislature from attaining a quorum, which is needed for the state House to vote on legislation.

While the special session was called to vote on disaster relief for victims of the devastating Fourth of July floods, Texas Republicans are using it to push through a rare, mid-decade redistricting plan that would give the GOP five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

President Donald Trump has led the push for gerrymandering as a way for Republicans to continue to hold a majority in Congress after the midterm elections.

Democrats have called the plan racist and a threat to democracy. Some governors in blue states, including New York, have suggested they will redraw their own maps in response.

“This is a war,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Monday.