…The proposed Texas map is designed to net the GOP up to five House seats — potentially enough to decide the majority…
Outside Texas, key Democratic governors have launched an aggressive counteroffensive to try to neutralize the GOP’s redistricting push.
…Newsom, who’s made no secret of his presidential ambitions, has openly accused Trump of “rigging” the midterms and suggested California could redraw its map to eliminate all nine GOP-held seats.
[New York Gov. Kathy Hochul] called Monday for disbanding New York’s independent redistricting commission and embracing partisan hardball, telling reporters that she’s “tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back…I cannot ignore that the playing field has changed dramatically, and shame on us if we ignore that fact and cling tight to the vestiges of the past,” Hochul said.
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fucking bullshit.
GOP, and texas in particular, started it. All they had to do was not gerrymander more than it already is, and CA and other states wouldn’t respond in kind.
But fucking hell. Either it’s illegal for everyone, or its legal and fair for everyone. So make this about Texas being controlling assholes instead.
It’s about fucking time Democrats started acting like they’re in a fight for the existence of the US.
If the republicans want to ban gerrymandering on a federal level I’m all for it. They can stop this bullshit that easily
Its about time. Contemporary US voters no longer care about who’s taking the highest road. The nazis need to be stopped by any means necessary.
I mean okay, nice of you idiots to finally play the game that Republicans have been playing for FORTY YEARS. It’s a bit of a too little, too late kind of a things at this point but still nice to see Democrats finally, FINALLY understanding you can’t take the damn “high road” and expect to win Calvin ball.
We must do everything in our power to deprive republicans of status, power, even their fucking vote. They are traitor filth.
Good we need to crush them at the polls, then finish the job. In the mean time if you have access to any records(medical, financial, name/address, etc) try and get everything you can for ICE employees, police, elected officials, etc. Distribute when the time is right, use covertly in the meantime
Decades late and a dollar short.
It’s all bad for voters. No matter what party, consolidated power is not good for voters who want advancement, progress, or even just small small steps in the right direction.
Shitty graphic
How does changing New York’s redistricting rules help defeat Texas Republicans? Or prevent Florida Republicans or Ohio Republicans or Iowa Republicans or etc. from doing their own bullshit redistricting?
How does changing New York’s redistricting rules help defeat Texas Republicans?
Texas is redistricting to give themselves as many red seats as possible…
Like, it should be common sense, but no other state can stop Texas from doing that.
So if Texas does that, the only response is blue states doing it to cancel it out…
Do you understand that now?
Land doesn’t vote. People do. Redistrict all of the rural areas in any state to include even a single large city in that state and the whole country will be blue. Fascists have been doing it the opposite way for years.
If enough blue states do it, it will directly counter the fascist push to do the same because without cheating, they just don’t have the numbers.
Yes, anti-fascists have to play the same game as fascists. None of this “when they go low…” shit can stand anymore.
But I have a little bone to pick with your first statement: at the state level, that holds up (depending on the state), but at the federal level, land (ok, less populous states) has an outsized influence because of the permanent apportionment law from almost 100 years ago.
Every California house member serves about 760k people, where Wyoming has 576k people total.
That means 9.5M ((760k - 576k) x 52 seats) people in CA (or 16.4 Wyomings) effectively don’t get a say every time the house votes.
And it’s even worse when we get to the electoral college (sum of House and Senate members per state). Wyoming has 192k people per electoral vote and CA has 732k people per electoral vote.
So it’s not entirely fair to dismiss the people vs land vote.
No moral highground please. We are at war.
It’s all about seats in the House.
