California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posted a video on social media showing agents gathering outside the conference, drawing condemnation from the governor and Los Angeles mayor.

The armed and masked agents assembled outside a museum where the governor was speaking in what Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles called “a provocative act.”

The governor connected President Donald Trump's request that Texas Republicans redraw districts to eke out another five House seats to the Jan. 6 insurrection, rollbacks on abortion rights, Trump's dismantling of federal agencies and targeting of law firms, universities and museums, and federal deportation raids in California.

Some of California’s most powerful politicians and unions rallied in Los Angeles for a ballot measure tilting the state’s House maps further toward Democrats.

Voters will be tasked with approving new congressional maps in a special election in November, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced.