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ancianita

(41,853 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:43 PM Aug 29

Missouri governor calls special session to redraw maps to aid Republicans

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Source: The Guardian

The Missouri governor, Mike Kehoe, has moved to help the Republican party gain an additional seat in Congress, calling a special legislative session to redraw congressional districts in his state.

Kehoe’s announcement on Friday followed a pressure campaign from Donald Trump, who has urged Republican states to reshape district boundaries to more heavily favor Republicans, boosting the party’s chances of maintaining control of the House of Representatives in 2026....

Trump has also pushed Indiana lawmakers to redraw that state’s maps, and has also pushed lawmakers in Florida and Ohio to help net three or more seats for the Republican party....

Emanuel Cleaver II, a Democratic representative from Missouri whose district could be carved up when maps a redrawn, said that in remaking the state’s congressional maps, “lawmakers would be working to drown out Missouri voices in favor of a single man a thousand miles away”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/missouri-governor-special-legislative-session-congressional-maps

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Missouri governor calls special session to redraw maps to aid Republicans (Original Post) ancianita Aug 29 OP
You get what you vote for. mdbl Aug 29 #1
everything the original nazis did was legal at the time they did or shortly thereafter nt msongs Aug 29 #2
Let's go Illinois and New York! Chasstev365 Aug 29 #3
Locking as a duplicate Yonnie3 Aug 29 #4

mdbl

(7,376 posts)
1. You get what you vote for.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:46 PM
Aug 29

You know, Morons!

msongs

(72,428 posts)
2. everything the original nazis did was legal at the time they did or shortly thereafter nt
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:46 PM
Aug 29

Chasstev365

(6,268 posts)
3. Let's go Illinois and New York!
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:50 PM
Aug 29

Yonnie3

(18,925 posts)
4. Locking as a duplicate
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:53 PM
Aug 29

Please continue discussion at the earlier post https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143520860

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