Venezuelan traveling from US to Venezuela with Expired Passport. How to?

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Traveling as a TPS petitioner requires you to petition the DHS to obtain an Advanced Parole Document (APD), having a valid national passport is not something that will let you skip that requirement (but you'll need a valid one to reenter, see below) :

If we are still adjudicating your application for TPS, and you wish to travel outside the United States, you must apply for travel authorization. If we approve your request for travel authorization, we will issue you a Form I-512L, Advance Parole Document (APD), to serve as evidence of DHS’s prior consent to your travel outside the United States.

If you don't have such a document, it is very likely that your TPS application will quite surely be denied, and you will be barred from reentry :

you have a pending TPS application and leave the United States without first obtaining advance parole, we may deny your application for TPS, and you may not be able to reenter the United States.

The page has a warning about the risks of travelling under a TPS :

We encourage you to read and understand the travel warning on Form I-131 before you request TPS travel authorization or advance parole. You may want to seek legal advice before you request TPS travel authorization or advance parole for travel.

As in TPS petitionner, you are not subject to the absolute ban on returning to the country you get protection from as you are not an Asylee, but I doubt that, without a proper reason to visit, the permission will be approved.

To travel, you'd also need a valid passport as (from I-131 Instructions)

An Advance Parole Document is not issued to serve in place of any required passport

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