Over 50 Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday night, denying the House a quorum and temporarily blocking a Republican redistricting plan aimed at eliminating five Democratic-held seats.

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.”

The Texas state House reconvened Monday without dozens of Democrats who left the state to try to stop the GOP from moving ahead with enacting a new congressional map that would give them five more safe seats.