What Texas is doing used to be illegal until the fascist Chief Justice Roberts gutted the Voting Rights Act.

How many people are aware that in order to cut Democratic Reps one new district in the Texas map runs from Austin 500 miles to the north through rural Texas to offset the urban votes. Whoever wins that new district will have to travel 500 miles to speak with his/her constituents.

Do you think the legal challenges will hold up? If it goes to the Supreme Court I certainly don’t trust them. Good thing CA did what they did.

Start planning NOW! Republicans changed the rules and Democrats need to be ruthless!

dems have a big majority in the state house.

In Colorado our constitution prevents mid decade redrawing of districts. Polis can say what he wants but even if we wanted an amendment to the constitution it would go into effect after the midterms

he is pretty much a DINO, and now that he is lame duck, he is definitely leaning more "Corporate" with almost everything.............

Abbot should be pushed into a bonfire.

And onto the ground.

Republicans are "burning it all down" and are pushing Democratic politicians "into the bonfire", right?

Yeah, i guess both sides are equal here comrade.

ending of Midsommer.

Since they’re the other Dem governors that get on the news the most, they’re on record.

I presume the other states will similarly re-draw.

It’s so fucking stupid and a further erosion of our democracy

All nine of our districts are blue. It is also good to note that we haven't sent a Republican to the House for 31 years.

I read there needs to be two votes in different years in NY.

Only because people change their minds and change dramatically over not much time.

People vote for the party they perceive to be winners. Many rural NC counties that used to be reliably Democratic are now deep red, with no Democratic candidates at all.

This is the result of gerrymandering. It destroys democracy.

we had a Democratic and a Republican Rep ride in the same car on the 4th of July parade.

Fast forward and I have had to write in Democratic Reps for my district. The Magat Rep, Glenn Thompson is awful, all he does is drink oil and breathe methane and gets fossil fuel money but he gets elected 6-1.

It's hard to predict how that will change over time.

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Like food insecurity and the people's basic physical wellbeing.

If Democrats (like Republcians have already done to an extent) can do that to the maximum level possible, these gerrymanders will be the world's biggest dummymanders.

I want Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to hold a press conference. I want them to encourage every democratically controlled state to gerrymander to the max until our nation returns to a bipartisan commission to draw maps.

I want my party to survive.

Democratic voters understand what's going on, they are protesting and attending town halls and ready to fight fascism. We need marching orders. Our voters want to do more than donate money for campaign ads, the time will come later to do that.

Project 2025 is ahead of schedule, once we become a Dictatorship there is no easy way back.

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I am pretty sick of it.

That just leads to isolated echo chambers.

of course. But just to complain they don't like the thread using foul language serves no purpose.

Am I alright now?

Okay 'champ'?

Every fucking day

"Trump is unstoppable." "Trump is a genius."

Then: "Democrats are weak."

I’ll start paying closer attention. Despair is like a wet fucking blanket - and so are those who attempt to afflict others with hopelessness.

The Democrats are doing something right and you still find a way to be critical. What are you doing, you personally, other than griping on a message board? This is not aimed just at you, but at all the critics here, many of them with low post counts.

She is not attacking Democrats. This gets so tiresome.

while insisting The People need to be given marching orders and told what to do by leadership.

Um.

Despite winning in court, Democrats lost even more seats in the latest atrocious redistricting. Once the state legislature grabbed the majority they just kept cutting back on democracy.

This is being replicated across the nation because it works. Republicans are stealing our democracy in order to get rich.

or we are looking at decades of Fascist/Totalitarian rule.

Replacing timid safe-seat Dems with Dem fighters is frowned on here and in establishment Dem circles

if he doesn't get his way type of person.

Some of his tweets in the past were nasty attacks on Dems. There are much more talented and eloquent young Dems than him out there who are smart enough to understand how to navigate this two party system.

I am not a progressive (a lot of them voted Trump bc their candidate lost), and I'm not "establishment" either. I believe both Jeffries and Schumer aren't capable/strong enough to lead the party in these trying times.

Maryland is often listed as a "most gerrymandered" state. Have any of you who repeat that statement ever actually looked at the Congressional District map of Maryland? 8 districts, one along the Eastern Shore; one that comprises the western part of the state, the part between WV and PA and six fairly compact districts between DC and Baltimore. If you have never done that, do it today. Then look at the maps of the ten "most gerrymandered" states run by Republicans. In Texas alone there is a CD that snakes through what looks like a 200 mile long corridor through western and central Texas plus many other districts where it's clear that the dictate that districts should be compact is ignored. While I haven't made a study of it, I'm sure that the other Republican gerrymandered states have similar shaped districts, ones meant to deny Democrats a fair shot at getting elected.

Is this post meant to suggest that Democratic leadership are just too DUMB or too IGNORANT or too NAIVE to "understand" what's going on? Or is the suggestion that Democratic leadership just doesn't care and that they are too stupid to comprehend all the things which are so obvious that even a child could understand?

Michael Moore, needs to be looking over his shoulder about right now. It looks like he's got some competition.
😘🙄😜

do is Ignore The People, count their bribes in secret Big Money rooms while sipping champagne cocktails and nibbling canapes wearing furs and diamonds with their Republican pals and don't have a clue how government works or what's going on and don't care. Then there's a yelling revolution inspired by strongly worded rallies in the last part of the story. Poorly written romance...

Illinois is aiming to redistrict District 11, which is +11 Republican, to make it about +5 Democrat by moving some more rural turf into District 20, and taking some heavily Democratic precincts from 6 and 7, where there's actually been some population growth. That will leave us with basically just two districts in the red, rural areas. But, even small metro areas in Illinois run ten points more Democratic than Republican, and the rural population is only about 17% of the total.

...

I'm not sure you actually are required to register, though.

Good

It's part of the "job" requirement.

It's not anywhere on our voter registration record!

I'm a precinct chair and fill out the oath of affiliation when I file.

The GOP is not gonna look at lists of precinct chairs when they draw maps..LOL! Not are the gonna draw into delegate databases..LOL

They looked at general election results. They also put people who don't vote into their districts.

we will never win another important election.

Do Democrats understand ____ ?
Why didn't Democrats stop ____ ?
Where are the Democrats?

And the point is?

If we don’t bring them up before the NEXT election, we will lose again. Like clockwork.

"White Working Class Men are where it's at" and it's a succinct summation.

at the end of the day in hard hats as an old-fashioned idealized working class does. Solidarity. You don't count if you take a shower in the morning with your fancy Identity Politics Body Soap.

THEY are the one who play Identity Politics.

They are the ones demanding special entitlements because they are working class white men.

They will never ever get onboard with anything that encourages equality for ALL in their socioeconomic group.

No matter where I go online, there's anti-Democrat and anti-Democratic party script or playbook that everyone seems to be copying-and-pasting from.

The point, you asked about... since no solutions or ideas are offered, I can only assume that the point is virtue signaling. The kind of shit that Michael Moore is famous for. Naysayer and soothsayer... always predicting the worst, and if it happens he boasts "told-ya-so!" And, if it doesn't happen, he boasts "thank goodness the Democrats heeded my wise warnings". --- It's always the same repetitive BS that we've come to expect. It's so tiresome.

But OK to punch down, call Democrats stupid, dummies who have no idea what's going on, no plans, no policies, no message, no integrity, mindless puppets of oligarchs and corporate shills and on and on. The bashers are so very concerned that if they turn their backs for one second, Democrats will turn into Republicans so they must scream insults at them all the time.

Poor Michael Moore. haven't heard much from him. I'm afraid he'll be even angrier at Democrats because his prediction that Harris would win was wrong and he missed out on lots and lots of TV appearances.

* sound like a cracked record. His only political agenda and goals are to monetize HIMSELF and to profit, no matter what damage he causes. He and Nina Turner and that other guy whose name escapes me right now, they're all cut from the same ratty piece of burlap flour sack cloth. Oh! I remember now... Cornel West, that's the one!

comments I'll always remember, and I can't think of Cornel West without the word milquetoast popping into my head because he said it all the time. If I had an Institute, I'd be embarrassed to have those two as Fellows (Tulsi Gabbard quietly vanishing eventually). At least MM isn't nutty yet.

... but, I guess it keeps the lights on and the water running.

... she certainly turned and betrayed the Democratic party very quickly. I wonder if her loudest fans also feel betrayed by her.

themselves something.

Like a politician with a long career of getting progressive things done trashed as corrupt establishment Republican lite and a politician with a long career of not getting things done hailed as the progressive gatekeeper who yells "None shall pass" except to the special few like Nina Turner, Cornel West, Tulsi Gabbard.

Now that everybody knows Tulsi's not at all a progressive or Democrat or anything on the Left, she doesn't bother spending a lot of time bashing Democrats -- that only makes potential Democratic voters cynical and apathetic if attacks appear to come from the left.

by overgerrymandering. their "safe" majority districts become easier to flip

they are using the results of trump vs harris to make a few assumptions that may not play without dear leader on the ticket..

Definitely at the State Government level which manages and controls elections.

I know for a FACT NJ legislators are very aware and trying to figure out how we can game the system.

And I hate to have to write something like that - but we're all on our own here. We have to engage in mass noncompliance.

We can break them. That I do believe.

Here's a hint - Rep Crockett through Gabriel Arce - a man who has written her scurrilous racist and sexist emails. Two years ago a Demcoratic Rep would not have Named Names of citizens who launch verbal and written threatening attacks at them.

She's just opened another door to demeaning the magapub voter.

Newsom has his thing - it works WONDERFULLY for him.
Crockett has HER thing - and that's the one every single Black Female Democratic Legislator across the country should use.

are from within the party . It shows from recent polls and that those low polling numbers are Democrats who don't like certain policies. The polls also show tha Republicans shouldn't place their bets on those voters because the poll shows they will not vote for Republicans. This again shows that this low means nothing while the same polls show Democrats with a 5 point advantage in the upcominmg midterms at this point.

Then it is time to leave.

Many of us simply do not have that as an option at all.

I don't want to live under a totalitarian regime

If the Extreme Court rules against Gerrymandering, it will stop the red states from doing it, and that has been their modus operandi for ages. Q.E.D.

If the Extreme Court upholds Gerrymandering, then big, big, UUGE blue states like CA get the 🛤️ clear track to do it.

their redistricting to a vote, which is more than the fascists in Texas can say.

That said, I'm all in.

Texas is one of many states where voters don’t register their party affiliation

Guess what? Joe Biden was one of them.

I really disliked him for a long, long time.

This led to Dems caving and letting the vote go
uncounted in 2000.

Dems playing nice, going Republican lite... that
has led us to where we are now.

today? The pukes, the media, the reichwing crazies did nothing to orchestrate this? The plans and attacks they have been working on for the last 50 years have nothing to do with the mess? Am I understanding your post correctly? What positions did President Biden take that you disliked so much, and why?

Except for a few who now call themselves progressives.

And your sentences here do not explain anything, nor did you answer my questions about your statements on President Biden. But do keep trying. I am finding this fascinating.

I can only speak as a Colorado voter but what I’m seeing is that the bad guys leveraged non partisan anti gerrymandering committees in advance of the fight we now have. Most states that could and should be able to counter this nonsense are usually restricted by those committees or their own laws that we supported to get rid of gerrymandering. Anti gerrymandering laws and committees only work when everyone is playing the same game.

He's got a piece in Time.com and there are some great videos / shorts too.

https://time.com/7310875/texass-map-racial-division/
Texas’s New Map Is Racial Division by Another Name

It’s a good thing AI is wrong most of the time. Only fools fully trust AI.