Texas House Stimmen zur Genehmigung der republikanischen Umverteilung von Karten

They are literally cheating and stealing your votes right before your eyes and the biggest protest we ever saw was a bunch of yahoos that lost. Wake TF up.

Meanwhile Arnold is doing everything he possibly can so California can’t level the playing field smh

Just another Guardian of P.

California is playing this perfectly. Letting Texas make the move first will squash the California Republicans to sue California for their redistricting effort because all Newsom has to do is point his finger at Texas doing it first.

Even if the Supreme court gets involved, I do not believe that it will fall under one of the partisan Gerrymandering or Racial Gerrymandering, but both.

We will see how effective it is. It relies heavily on Trump maintaining his latino support in south Texas. Of which he has gone like -50 in approval.

It also depends on presidential level turnout to be effective.

Newsom should create 50 new seats, fuck the GOP

They stole 5 seats.
We must steal 50.

Not the proportionate response, the in-proportionate response.

Make republicans into the leading advocates for nonpartisan redistricting commissions. Through political force.

Of course they did. This was inevitable.

Now, the question is whether California will follow suit. They could, theoretically, create a map that completely obliterates the Republican Party in their state, with districts drawn to ensure an almost unbreakable 52-0 gerrymander for Democrats.

After this nonsense, they should be working on that.

*Texas House republicans vote to approve Trump’s redistricting maps*

Why of course they did! GCN, do your stuff. Any other blue states willing to participate?

California’s turn

Can anyone explain why the Dems returned so quickly fully understanding this would happen? What was the point then?

Traitors, all of them.

This is actually a good thing in the long term. Texas is a purple state that’s been ruled by extremely narrow Republican majorities and minorities for several election cycles. The underlying principle of gerrymandering is you take Republican voters in safe districts and put them in purple districts to shift them red or you take blue voters in purple districts and move them into blue districts to, again, shift the purple district red.

The problem with this is that you can’t do this infinitely. There are federal and state constitutional guidelines on how large a population within a district can be relative to other districts, and in every state the population differences between districts must be under 1%. Why does this matter? Because gerrymandering is about making majorities slimmer to win purple seats. As Republicans lose voters, and they are and have been for decades, they have to gerrymander those purple districts more and more, which slims their majorities in safe districts. This is extremely dangerous when you have a polarizing candidate and party like Trump and MAGA because a major election shift won’t just cost you the seat in the purple district you gerrymandered to maintain control, you could also now lose the „safe“ district you slimmed your majority in to strengthen the purple district for your political party, causing a domino effect of lost seats both nationally and in your state legislatures.

This works in a place like California where less than 35% of the state votes Republican, but in a place like Texas that has been heavily gerrymandered for decades and has been slowly losing its grip on the state and federal elections, you run the risk of a historic blowout that can never be undone. So, I say this is a good thing, especially as Democratic governors with stronger majorities are redrawing their own district maps in ways that are safer for their majorities to counteract Republican’s overtly anti-democratic election theft.

Maybe it’s my incurable optimism but I have a feeling this might backfire and they might not win all of these new seats. I mean people are pissed and it’s only going to get worse before next year. I know that a lot of people don’t pay attention but a lot of people, especially Republicans are. Maybe they’ll still vote Republican but maybe not a MAGA. Or go independent. I think reps like Jasmine Crockett have a chance to turn the tables on these people. Like I said, incurable optimism.

[Atleast Georgia had enough sense to refuse Trumps demands when trying to swing an election.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbFc9T7KXA0)

If enough people move out of Texas, they’ll just lose the seats altogether

I hate this country

California, do your thing. Please…maybe?

Utterly disgusting power grab by Trump and the Texas GOP ..they are all traitors serving a felon not their constituents..they are cheating us…robbing us…this is fucking unacceptable.

What kind of democracy allows the politicians to decide the maps. Fundamental flaw in the system. Needs to be an independent body.

So now every state will play the same endless game

Time for any blue state that can do this to do this.

What a dumb country.

So, is my blue vote useless now?