Anonymous
Post 05/02/2026 13:08     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Taking a look at these districts, it is clear Democrats leveraged a misreading of the Voting Rights Act to go out of their way to create black majority districts.

Now in response, Democrats in states they control will look to change the black majority districts to dilute them them and spread them into other districts to gain seats.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2026 12:41     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Confederacy is rising. Alabama and Tennessee join Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi in a race to disenfranchise people of color from their political power.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/01/alabama-tennessee-gerrymandering-congress-vra/


I am wondering if there will be a point in time that college and pro athletes might use their voice and leverage on this?

It never fails: as soon as John Roberts rules from the bench that racism is over and we don’t need the civil rights era laws, southern racists start falling over each other to codify their racism.

Pretty weird argument for people who call themselves originalists.

If only Roberts had adopted daughters from Ethiopia instead of illegally from Ireland he would understand.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2026 10:00     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
remember all those articles extolling the "New South" in Georgia and Arkansas? Ya, all propaganda.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2026 09:57     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:The Confederacy is rising. Alabama and Tennessee join Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi in a race to disenfranchise people of color from their political power.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/01/alabama-tennessee-gerrymandering-congress-vra/


I am wondering if there will be a point in time that college and pro athletes might use their voice and leverage on this?

It never fails: as soon as John Roberts rules from the bench that racism is over and we don’t need the civil rights era laws, southern racists start falling over each other to codify their racism.

Pretty weird argument for people who call themselves originalists.
Anonymous
Post 05/02/2026 09:53     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
The Confederacy is rising. Alabama and Tennessee join Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi in a race to disenfranchise people of color from their political power.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/01/alabama-tennessee-gerrymandering-congress-vra/


I am wondering if there will be a point in time that college and pro athletes might use their voice and leverage on this?
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2026 17:23     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:


The Supreme Court ruled its current map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.


The map used by Alabama in the 2024 election was ruled an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. They used it anyway.
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2026 16:22     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:


The Supreme Court ruled its current map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
And a district court ruled they cannot go forward with elections undern their current map.


they CAN use the current map, they are choosing not to. Please just stop
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2026 16:19     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:


The Supreme Court ruled its current map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.


if they can declare an emergency for this, they can declare an emergency in November and simply not have an election
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2026 15:52     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:


The Supreme Court ruled its current map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
And a district court ruled they cannot go forward with elections undern their current map.
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2026 15:25     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:


The Supreme Court ruled its current map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2026 10:57     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This has to stop.

How can it be legal to ever gerrymander based on partisanship. It means disenfranchised voters from one party or the other depending on the state. It means voters not receiving representation in the House. It basically nullified the entire system of the House of Representatives.

Gerrymandering based on any voter feature should be illegal. If you can’t do it for race, how can they possibly justify political party or ANYTHING else.

This is outrageous. It completely breaks the system.

Well. The system is actually broken already. GOPhas to cheat to win.


Partisan gerrymandering is indeed currently illegal and unconstitutional in Florida but DeSantis and the GOP state legislature don’t care. Remains to be seen what the Florida Supreme Court, stuffed with DeSantis and Scott appointees, will think.


DeSantis and the FL Supreme Court are on the verge of breaking Florida's constitution. Once they go down this path, the ramifications will not be foreseeable, and it will have long-term unexpected consequences.
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2026 09:58     Subject: Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:This has to stop.

How can it be legal to ever gerrymander based on partisanship. It means disenfranchised voters from one party or the other depending on the state. It means voters not receiving representation in the House. It basically nullified the entire system of the House of Representatives.

Gerrymandering based on any voter feature should be illegal. If you can’t do it for race, how can they possibly justify political party or ANYTHING else.

This is outrageous. It completely breaks the system.

Well. The system is actually broken already. GOPhas to cheat to win.

Partisan gerrymandering is indeed currently illegal and unconstitutional in Florida but DeSantis and the GOP state legislature don’t care. Remains to be seen what the Florida Supreme Court, stuffed with DeSantis and Scott appointees, will think.
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2026 09:54     Subject: Re:Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There will be war. The GOP is wildly unpopular, hated even. If people can’t effectuate change at the ballot box, they will effectuate change at the guillotine. It’s going to be very ugly.


There must be a better way in between do nothing and war.

Honestly I am so disturbed by this.


There is not. When one side completely gives up the idea of accountability at the ballot box, the game is over. The other side either goes along with the end of democracy, or it forces the tyrants to heel in the only language they understand.

Jefferson warned us that the tree of liberty was going to need to be refreshed from time to time.
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2026 08:52     Subject: Re:Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There will be war. The GOP is wildly unpopular, hated even. If people can’t effectuate change at the ballot box, they will effectuate change at the guillotine. It’s going to be very ugly.


There must be a better way in between do nothing and war.

Honestly I am so disturbed by this.


Billionaires around the world despise people who are not in their club. When will the average American realize that?
Anonymous
Post 05/01/2026 08:26     Subject: Re:Texas Republicans unveil congressional map that could gift them five seats
Anonymous wrote:There will be war. The GOP is wildly unpopular, hated even. If people can’t effectuate change at the ballot box, they will effectuate change at the guillotine. It’s going to be very ugly.


There must be a better way in between do nothing and war.

Honestly I am so disturbed by this.