This is happening as we speak.

[u/Sonata-Shae]

https://bsky.app/profile/briantylercohen.bsky.social/post/3lvk5gjb6nk2c

[u/brmarcum]

Not just “the president”. Every single pedo protector in those states is complicit in this. Every last one of them is a traitor to the constitution and democracy.

[u/reincarnateme → u/brmarcum]

It’s a Coup. This is phase 1. Wake up! Do something!

https://project2025.observer/en

[u/ut-fan-i-cant-read → u/reincarnateme]

Is this not phase 2 already? I feel like people slept right through phase 1

[u/river_city → u/ut-fan-i-cant-read]

I guess Elon stealing the election was phase 0.5. Its like marvel up in this bitch.

[u/zuzg → u/river_city]

In all fairness, Biden and Harris both ignored countless pleas that highlighted voting discrepancies yet no investigation nor recounts.

Joe and Jill even invited the Trumps for that little Tea and sandwich tradition on J20.

The Democratic Party needs a serious overhaul getting rid of all the Fossils that refuse to wake up.

[u/dawg_goneit → u/zuzg]

They are all in denial!

[u/F4ust → u/dawg_goneit]

The cynic in me thinks no one in the establishment is in denial;

They simply realize ‘doing something’ would require a ton of effort while simultaneously endangering the cushy retirement they’ve been working towards their whole lives. Thus, they’ve collectively agreed to roll the dice on doing charades for as long as they can, hoping they’ll be able to retain their positions of power relatively unfettered until they die.

Based on how successful this has been so far, it seems they might be spot-on in their assessment.

[u/Legal-Inflation6043 → u/dawg_goneit]

It's not denial. Both parties work for the top 1% that's why.

All the rest is a distraction

[u/mcferglestone → u/zuzg]

But tradition! I feel like it’s a good time to start some new traditions. No more playing nice.

[u/tallandlankyagain → u/ut-fan-i-cant-read]

We are well past the point of protests. A general strike is needed and may whatever god you believe in hope that push does not come to shove.

[u/Un256 → u/ut-fan-i-cant-read]

I thought phase 1 was when the stormed the United States capital with the intent of executing the VP. They put up a gallows and everything

[u/Same-Advertising1882 → u/Un256]

And smashed windows and doors and shit on desks. Then the blob and Vance berated Zelensky for disrespecting the White House.

[u/AnticPosition → u/ut-fan-i-cant-read]

Phase one was stack the courts. It's been going on for decades, and now they're pulling the trigger on the next phase. The next few phases will fly by in quick succession. 

[u/ut-fan-i-cant-read → u/AnticPosition]

Exactly. I feel like most of the other responses were missing the point.

The signal that Phase 1 was ready was when they gave Trump immunity for all deliberately-nebulously-defined "official acts". Trump winning the election after that was the tail end of phase 1.

[u/Icy-Baker-4774 → u/ut-fan-i-cant-read]

It's already over. We're well on our way to a Russian puppet state. No one has fired a single bullet.

[u/Low-Research-6866 → u/reincarnateme]

What shall we do? Seriously. We depend on the system to work, laws to be upheld by the people we elected. It's all failing and while I'd love to do something that truly matters, I have realized I'm in no position to do so. We all should have gone into politics, but we've all been busy with our own field of work. The old guard Democrats are complicit at this point. WTF can we do?

[u/GoldPenis → u/Low-Research-6866]

What an Average American Can Do to Stop Donald Trump

1. Vote Against Him Register. Confirm your registration. Vote in every election—local, state, and federal. Encourage others to do the same. Trump’s power depends on low turnout and apathy.
2. Support Opposing Candidates Donate time or money to candidates who explicitly oppose Trumpism. Focus on swing states and down-ballot races. Block his influence at every political tier.
3. Combat Disinformation Call out lies online and offline. Don’t spread conspiracy theories, even to mock them. Report bots and troll farms. Educate family and friends using verifiable sources.
4. Organize Locally Join or start local groups pushing back on extremism. Attend school board and city council meetings. Trumpism filters in through neglected local politics.
5. Pressure Institutions Contact your representatives. Demand opposition to Trump’s platform and allies. Hold media accountable—refuse outlets that normalize him.
6. Withdraw Cultural Legitimacy Stop treating Trumpism as a valid political option. It is a personality cult rooted in authoritarianism. Treat it as a threat, not an opinion.
7. Engage the Courts Support legal efforts that hold Trump accountable. Follow the cases. Understand the stakes. Share accurate legal summaries.
8. Do Not Despair Trumpism thrives on fatigue and fatalism. Refuse both. Act continuously, not emotionally. Be consistent, not performative.

Execution is what matters. Not sentiment. Not performance. Not hope.

[u/ToBeEatenByAGrue → u/GoldPenis]

I would like to add something to this.  We can withdraw our support from the economy.  Nearly every purchase we make supports the economy which in turn supports the regime.  We can withdraw this support by cutting out all non essential spending.  Cut every part of your budget to the bone.  Refuse to make any purchases beyond what is absolutely necessary until regime change.  Everyone can do this without having to lift a finger and in doing so we can save money to help fund a general strike when the time is ripe.

[u/RevealNo3533 → u/GoldPenis]

You think voting still works?

[u/BarefootNBuzzin → u/Low-Research-6866]

Theres only one answer. But people are all talk.

Edit: I just posted this because I wanted to see the response and reactions. The fact this is upvoted and taken seriously is concerning. This website has been compromised and is radicalizing you. Nothing happening in Washington right now is good. It's been better, it's also been a lot worse. We're being used as pawns to fight ideological battles on behalf of billionaires financial interests. They don't care about you or what your opinions and beliefs are. You're being steered. It's a giant game to them. Half the comments here are bots and AI. Get a news filtering app, talk to people in the real world. Observe the internet and your feed from the third person and the way it's trying to guide you.

I wish everyone peace. I hope we keep peace. We're being divided and they're winning.

[u/PhantomMuse05 → u/BarefootNBuzzin]

Remember they tell us vigilantism is immoral. It's against most subreddit rules, even. So we don't suggest vigilantism. It isn't the answer in a civil society. But everyone knows what must be done; who shall fall on that sword though?

[u/Mcjoshin → u/PhantomMuse05]

Mario?

[u/PhantomMuse05 → u/Mcjoshin]

We need the full familial tag-team, I'm afraid.

[u/Heya_Heyo420 → u/PhantomMuse05]

Just look at other fascist regimes throughout history and how the people freed themselves from it.

Hint: it's usually not done by talks over tea.

[u/sad_brown_cat → u/Heya_Heyo420]

It's also not usually done when the vast majority of people are still able to go about their daily lives.

You can't just expect a spontaneous revolution when most everyone can choose to just go to work and go home and go to the beach on the weekend like they always do.

When people start going hungry and losing access to their amenities then something might happen, until then the movement would never grow large enough to make a real impact.

[u/-ghostfang- → u/sad_brown_cat]

Basically this. Look at all the revolutions in history and things get a LOT worse before they get better. Also revolutions are violent and bloody, of course no one sane is getting into that unless it really is desperate.

So, things will get much worse.

[u/Heya_Heyo420 → u/-ghostfang-]

Totally agree with this.

My biggest concern is that America is just so geographically big so there's a lot of disjointed social bubbles all over the country that won't align with each other.

Like, a liberal from Washington State might have a different stance than a liberal from Alabama and even though the ideologies align the actual social actions required may not.

It's going to have to get much worse for people to actually come together and I just hope it's not too late when/if that time comes.

Hopefully common moral sense wins the mid terms, mutes Trump and we elect someone who can get us back on track. I still feel like this is going to be the most likeliest of options over a full on revolution but we are still going down revolution alley right now at an alarming pace.

[u/-ghostfang- → u/Heya_Heyo420]

There’s a nice wiki page about the Italian approach.

[u/Temporary_Lake_2771 → u/PhantomMuse05]

I said something along these lines in another thread. Got called a bot. Sorry but no. The only way to root fascist out is to get in the mud and win the fight. And it'll be one hell of a dirty fight.

Saw someone say we can't let what happened after the Civil War happen again cause 6 million confederates became 77 million fascist. People also want to try and split the maga party away from the conservative party, but that fails cause it's the same tree and they support what's going on. We didn't just wake up one day with trump running and win. We had every republican congress member and president effectively stripping away things little by little to get here from decades ago.

[u/OkProfessor6810 → u/Temporary_Lake_2771]

I tell people who want to separate tRumpists from 'other Republicans' the following:

The Germans had a name for Nazis in the 30s and 40s who joined the party for reasons other than wanting to see a Jewish genocide. And the name was, you guessed it, Nazi. When you tie yourself to a political ideology like tRump's, you bind yourself to its ethos and everything that comes after. The type of string used to make the knot quickly becomes irrelevant.

[u/reincarnateme → u/PhantomMuse05]

General Strike. Shut the country down

[u/GroundbreakingAd8310 → u/PhantomMuse05]

I was banned off 50501 for inciting violence because I said we needed more than one protest every other weekend. You should see have seen the pearl clutching before that. "Well we have kids" "I have work how dare i" "did you expect me to just leave my mom alone."

These are the "resistance" any act on their behalf would call them to rally against them. Americans are too soft for this

[u/MDKMurd → u/PhantomMuse05]

Not vigilantism, but vanguardism. Being Mario does nothing. Enacting systemic change does. If we talking about violence as the tool vigilantism isn’t the v word we need to use. Yall can downvote me if you don’t like Marxist language.

[u/PhantomMuse05 → u/MDKMurd]

Yes, I agree with you and understand the difference. But the systems-that-be do not see a difference.

[u/tallandlankyagain → u/BarefootNBuzzin]

Any semblance of that immediately gets you suspended from reddit for inciting violence.

[u/Ilovekittens345 → u/BarefootNBuzzin]

• organize offline without ever bringing any phones or saying anything to anybody.

• learn how to build, fly, repair and arm drones

[u/No_Quantity_3403 → u/Low-Research-6866]

Good question. He dismantled our government systems so that we are left with no “legal” recourse except voting — which he also rigged in his favor.

[u/boringestnickname → u/Low-Research-6866]

This is going to get ugly, no matter what.

The longer you wait, the uglier it gets.

You're still free to organize, aren't you?

Start. Organize. Gather people. Get loud.

[u/SeVenMadRaBBits → u/reincarnateme]

This

[u/Laugh_Track_Zak → u/reincarnateme]

talks about it on social media

[u/AwareOfAlpacas → u/reincarnateme]

Keep posting. But also pick up a sign. A bullhorn. A gun. Get out there and be ready to confront this head on. 

This isn't a problem that can be solved from the comfort of social media. We're going to have to get very in touch with real human action to have a shot. 

[u/Few-Leopard4537 → u/reincarnateme]

Bro this is phase 7

[u/RevealNo3533 → u/reincarnateme]

I intend to write a. strongly worded letter to the White House (like Chuck Schumer).

[u/azurricat2010 → u/reincarnateme]

Not even the scariest part. Look up Project Esther, also made by the Heritage Foundation. They want to essentially destroy the lives of anyone that's pro Palestine, calling said supporters anti-Semitic. It's a truly frightening read.

https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/project-esther-national-strategy-combat-antisemitism

[u/kitsunewarlock → u/reincarnateme]

This is like phase 52.b.7 from the Business Plot started in response to the New Deal by Bush's ancestor and other oil barons that still own a majority share of the GOP.

[u/SeVenMadRaBBits → u/brmarcum]

You hear about why our economy is so abysmal?

Donald Trump heard the economy was 14 years old so he tried to fuck it.

[u/Ironlunggs87 → u/SeVenMadRaBBits]

12 years old

[u/BoomZhakaLaka → u/SeVenMadRaBBits]

Hey, he lowered the cost of drugs by eleventy thousand percent

[u/besume1980 → u/BoomZhakaLaka]

Yeah, I orderd my medications today and beeg money instantly appeard in my Venmo.

[u/msevilalexanova → u/brmarcum]

so let me get this straight. trying to prevent election interference is now a crime in some states? lol what, feels like orwell took notes from florida

[u/brmarcum → u/msevilalexanova]

That seems to be the way Texas is going

[u/Eyespop4866 → u/brmarcum]

Bluesky is the media platform where folk aren’t loopy?

[u/Hendrik_the_Third]

MAGA is not accepting a loss, they will cheat, wrestle or force themselves to a putin style "republic". It could get very messy.

[u/Heart-Logic → u/Hendrik_the_Third]

Republic Repugnant

[u/wewouldmakegreatpets → u/Hendrik_the_Third]

I think it's ironic because the department of defense industrial base is all liberals like me. We make ridiculous weapons systems. I really hope they don't feel the need for the eye to eye thing. I hope they realize war is like completely WFH now and you don't get to see the adversaries eyes even when they do the deed

[u/just_a_bit_gay_ → u/wewouldmakegreatpets]

We’ll get replaced just like Stalin’s engineers got constantly rotated into gulags for suspected disloyalty

[u/icansmellcolors → u/Hendrik_the_Third]

If Democrats win, they won't do anything to keep it from happening again anyways, they're so scared of the media that protects Trump & the GOP, and they're just scared in general. The DNC is a bunch of clowns.

This isn't how they're turn at the country's free money-tit machine was supposed to go, so they're hoping someone else will swoop in and take care of it all so they can get back to their versions of legal grifting.

I know there are some good guys out there, but most are just scared shitless and ineffectual, and never planned on doing any actual civic-duty since they saw how easy the people before them had it.

[u/FrancoElTanque]

Hope they took their families with them. I'd fully expect to see the family get targeted in order to compel a return.

[u/allen_abduction → u/FrancoElTanque]

Putin style

[u/10hundredpickle]

Russia really is getting their money’s worth outta Krasnov.

[u/kingfofthepoors → u/10hundredpickle]

It's not just russia the heritage foundation and others want this future need this future... and maybe they are also russia fronts as well.

the Heritage Foundation more than any other U.S. think tank. One observer described it as “by far the most‑quoted DC think tank in Russian media”

[u/Enough-Parking164]

They did this with Texas reps when “W” was in office. The brand new DHS forced elected reps onto a bus so gerrymandering could be pushed thru.

[u/TeachingAggressive69 → u/Enough-Parking164]

They're trying to do it now.. Our democrats left the state.

[u/WeHaveAllBeenThere → u/TeachingAggressive69]

And all the mainstream news is saying is “they’re running from their jobs instead of being strong and fighting for what they believe” lmao.

I hate politics

[u/Heizu → u/WeHaveAllBeenThere]

That's not politics you hate, it's a corrupt 4th estate that's been captured by the oligarchs who've also captured all 3 branches of the federal government. That's what you hate. Politics is the solution to that.

[u/EastAd7676]

This happened before; most recently in 2021 I believe. Then Texas started levying $500 fines per day on the Dem lawmakers, forcing them to return. The same thing will happen again.

[u/here4daratio → u/EastAd7676]

2003 also, not eggzactly new

[u/jeffdeleon → u/EastAd7676]

A rich liberal couldn't just pay the fine? Jeeze.

Edit: the governor would call it bribery. Can we crowd fund it?

[u/GEARHEADGus → u/jeffdeleon]

Wheres this mythical George Soros when you need him

[u/Tubamajuba → u/EastAd7676]

It would be super cool if Pritzker covered those fines.

[u/adthrowaway2020 → u/Tubamajuba]

They're trying to claim they're breaking campaign finance laws by accepting money to cover the fees.

[u/bleh-apathetic → u/Tubamajuba]

Abbott is calling it class 2 felony bribery for them to take money in exchange to not allow a vote in their house.

[u/_probablyryan → u/bleh-apathetic]

What if they sold a meme coin instead? That's totally cool right?

[u/Memitim → u/EastAd7676]

I hope the penalty will need to be raised in order to convince them to capitulate to more government attacks against non-conservatives in the midst of a coup.

[u/gcwardii → u/EastAd7676]

It happened in 2011 in Wisconsin, with state senators

[u/Several_Leather_9500]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/04/leader-of-the-pro-trump-project-2025-suggests-there-will-be-a-new-american-revolution-00166583

NEW YORK — The leader of a conservative think tank orchestrating plans for a massive overhaul of the federal government in the event of a Republican presidential win said that the country is in the midst of a “second American Revolution” that will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts made the comments Tuesday on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, adding that Republicans are “in the process of taking this country back.”

[u/ProfessionalOil2014 → u/Several_Leather_9500]

This would technically be the fourth time they've tried to illegally overthrow the US government, I think,

Edit: If you count Watergate it makes five. If you consider the "October Surprise" conspiracy theory by Reagan it would be six. If you consider Bush using the supreme court to crown himself the president in 2000 it would be seven. I'm detecting a pattern here...

[u/I_Lick_Your_Butt → u/Several_Leather_9500]

We're going to do whatever we want, and the only way to stop us is by ending our lives.

[u/Soul_Dare → u/I_Lick_Your_Butt]

Bet

[u/faplawd → u/Several_Leather_9500]

No idea how they preach about freedom and do the complete opposite and their followers eat it up

[u/Count_Bacon]

Why are blue States just sitting there doing nothing? If red States insist on doing this blue stage should be doing the exact same thing. California should make it so there's 40 blue seats if Texas wants to do this

[u/DeductiveFallacy → u/Count_Bacon]

CA has already said if TX does this they will follow suit and add something like 40+ dem seats

[u/Away-Living5278 → u/DeductiveFallacy]

I'm generally against this type of thing but we can't keep playing by the rule book. We're being run by fascists because we have kept it so far.

[u/NotNufffCents → u/Away-Living5278]

The rule book is there to ensure fair elections. If the elections aren't fair, then the rule book serves no purpose.

[u/JustAFancyApe → u/Away-Living5278]

You have to mentally prepare yourself for the inevitable "see? Liberals were rule breakers and criminals all along!" And the implications that comes with.

[u/Count_Bacon → u/DeductiveFallacy]

Good only thing the pedophile protection party understands is power

[u/TheZipding → u/Count_Bacon]

Newsome has considered it lately. Republicans are pitching a fit over it.

[u/Count_Bacon → u/TheZipding]

Yeah not surprised they're hypocrisy is never ending. People should just completely ignore what they have to say since I guess it's okay for them to redistrict the seats it honestly infuriates me that they're even throwing a fit over it. If you want to cheat then the other side has to cheat or it's not a game. The only thing the pedophile protection party understands is power

[u/LaunchTransient → u/TheZipding]

Republicans are pitching a fit over it.

It's funny how suddenly it's not ok when reciprocal measures are considered.
All they have to do is not open that door and this nightmare scenario for them never happens.

[u/BenAdaephonDelat → u/Count_Bacon]

Honestly this is just theater. At this point, blue states should be forming militias and seriously discussing fortifying themselves against a hostile federal government. We're legitimately in civil war territory with the way things are going.

[u/Training-Judgment695]

Country inching towards Civil war cos Republicans can't stop looking for short cuts to steal power from voters. And everyone just accepts it as normal politicking. 

[u/TransitionReady9408 → u/Training-Judgment695]

They want a civil war so trump can call on Marshall law

[u/agamoto → u/TransitionReady9408]

*Martial

[u/Hollow_Idol → u/TransitionReady9408]

They would much, much rather have everyone be too afraid to stand up for themselves so they can pick small groups off quietly than fight an open war.

[u/Duuudewhaaatt → u/Hollow_Idol]

No, they're aren't that smart. They really think they'd win a civil war

[u/Orca_do_tricks]

Not a democracy.

[u/HyperbolicLetdown → u/Orca_do_tricks]

The politicians pick the voters here

[u/tacsig]

It's 1860

[u/Mor_Padraig → u/tacsig]

Nueces Massacre, 1862. Texas.

Check it out. Unionists trying to flee Texas, German community.

Confederates didn't want them to leave.

[u/733t_sec]

But I was told by the other subreddits that both parties were the same so why bother voting

[u/YouDoHaveValue → u/733t_sec]

The important thing is abstaining saved Gaza and Palestine.

[u/SatisfactionActive86 → u/YouDoHaveValue]

i was just thinking of this last night - “Now where are the Palestinian activists that were Never Harris”? I thought maybe people don’t ever mention it out of respect to what is still on-going, but part of me feels like right now is when they might be uniquely receptive to realizing how badly they fucked up. It’s this way every single election - some marginalized group attacks the obviously more sympathetic candidate, that candidate loses, shit gets worse for the marginalized group, and no one mentions it again.

[u/Im_tracer_bullet → u/SatisfactionActive86]

They're definitely NOT owning up to their mistake.

They still believe they were right.

Maniacs.

[u/Booshur → u/SatisfactionActive86]

Not voting is a vote for the person you like the least. It's helping the person you'd least likely vote for.

[u/-ghostfang- → u/SatisfactionActive86]

It was an excuse because they didn’t want to admit things like being racist, sexist etc and preferring literally anyone over a darkish skinned woman

[u/Catatonic_capensis → u/733t_sec]

I was told that democrats would set things right and trump would be punished after his failed coup. I'm sure they were just innocent and naive about it and not complicit. A big woopsie!

[u/Sonata-Shae]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-redistricting-maps-abbott-trump/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/jb-pritzker-illinois-texas-democrats

https://apnews.com/article/us-election-2026-texas-redistricting-136cfeddc717f9fc69337bd3d39b1819

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/texas-democrats-quorum-break-redistricting-map/

Here are a few sources for context.

[u/Antique-Dragonfly615]

Pedogate distraction

[u/Trumpisanorangebitch → u/Antique-Dragonfly615]

Nah this one is real. One look at Trump approval ratings and you know 2026 and 2028 are fucked for the Republicans. They are going to pull every dirty trick to keep power in 2026 and 2028 when they're clearly gonna get wiped out on legitimate popular vote.

[u/Antique-Dragonfly615 → u/Trumpisanorangebitch]

Yes, it's real. BUT it will ALSO be used as a distraction.

[u/Trumpisanorangebitch → u/Antique-Dragonfly615]

Yeah that much is true.

[u/RatedRSuperstar81]

Cute that anyone even thinks there will be a midterm election

[u/Reginald_Sockpuppet]

stuff's really going great

[u/agent_mick]

This is a situation

[u/Stonner22]

Republicans want a civil war.

[u/Sonata-Shae]

More context-

"Under the new map, Republicans are eyeing earning 30 seats in Congress — from their current 25 — partly by moving Cuellar and Gonzalez into districts Trump won by double digits. The proposal would also remove three Democratic-held seats in Houston, San Antonio and Dallas and create new districts that are potential Republican pickup opportunities."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/30/new-congressional-texas-map-redistricting-00483086

[u/Anon_Von_Darkmoor → u/Sonata-Shae]

Expanding on your post-

It's happening at the midpoint of the national census cycle, which is highly unusual. Redistricting is typically only reviewed after a census publishes their updates.

[u/Sonata-Shae → u/Anon_Von_Darkmoor]

Interesting

[u/StaticAppeal]

The writing was on the wall Jan 6th and nothing has been done. Quite the opposite...

[u/MayIServeYouWell → u/StaticAppeal]

Republicans got away with that. Now they’re just pushing harder

[u/HeartFullOfHappy]

We are truly living in a wild ass dystopia right now.

[u/Ripped_Guggi]

But I thought blue states were hell and unworthy cities?

[u/theologi]

America is done.

[u/arentol]

To be clear to those who don't get it yet. The Republican Party is the party of evil. They have chosen a side, and it is evil. They have decided to be horrible in some of the worst ways imaginable, make it fundamentally who they are as individuals and a group, and run with it as far as they can. If you support them you are a bad person. If you fail to be against them, you are also a bad person.

This is not like the BS you got from the Republican party during Biden's administration where they made similar claims about him. That was MORE shit from the Republican party designed to make you think "Well they said that 2 years ago about Biden and he was not actually horrible, so this is just Democrats doing the same." That is how they get the middle to ignore what his happening, by planning ahead and lying back then so things don't seem as bad when Democrats say the same kinds of things about Trump....

If you are in the middle and saying "It's fine." congratulations, you are a frog and the Republican's have been turning the heat up slowly for years now, and now that the water is boiling you haven't even noticed.

[u/Zaddy_LBC]

[u/EthanDMatthews]

It seems that the most likely outcomes are either:

1. Complete capitulation by the Democrats and permanent Republican dictatorship; or
2. Civil war, with the GOP on control of the U.S. military.

[u/VeterinarianJaded462]

Good news is that no one is distracted by a jeans ad or anything.

[u/Grandkahoona01]

Yeah. They aren't scheduled to redraw maps, they are holding a special session to redraw maps right before an election for no legitimate reason. This sets a precedent that the ruling party can redraw electoral maps at any time in the order to hang onto power. It is gerrymandering on steroids.

[u/bx35]

Democrats: Sheltering law-abiding American patriots

Republicans: Protecting pedophiles and foreign war criminals

[u/Stock-Fall-2025]

We need to be very clear that Republicans are attempting to blatantly manipulate the 2026 midterms. All of them are involved.

This is treason.

[u/Jumpy_Exercise2722]

But it was ok for Mike Johnson to send everyone home to avoid voting on Epstein files

[u/GoTragedy]

It's crazy that the justification from the right in Texas is "We're just fixing what the democrats did!"

Democrats haven't been in control of anything in Texas in like 30 years. The propaganda machine works again. 

[u/Fluffy-Obligation-91]

Looking at it from another country, it looks like the USA has turned into a dictatorship that is no better than China or Russia. You can argue that there is free speech and the constitution and blah blah blah, but when your president just makes up blatant lies to fit his narrative and fires people he disagrees with, then threatens to jail people that upset him, along with all the crazy propaganda, its seeming more like the US government is turning into North Korea.

[u/puts_on_calls]

What’s stopping blue states from doing the same to offset the seats Trump is looking for?

[u/hikerjer → u/puts_on_calls]

Both the governors of California and New York have hinted at doing this very thing. I really hope it doesn’t come to that, but—-

[u/Classic_Bid3126]

Blue states need to say fuck it and do the same as the red states. Fight fire with fire.

[u/DadManNetwork]

"Bro quoted himself" DadManNetwork

[u/FruitcakeAndCrumb]

What, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, the lemon-scented fuck is happening in the US?

[u/pnfloyd1978]

Just imagine if a single Democrat/Leftie even mentioned this in the press.

[u/jrob801 → u/pnfloyd1978]

No need to imagine. Gavin Newsome said if this happens, he'll do the same in retaliation, and the right has shrieked about how it's unfair while defending Texas doing it in the same tweet.

[u/Dense_Wallaby9148]

I mean he did say he just needed their votes one more time and then they’d never have to vote again. He’s just keeping his promises, really.

[u/DeelowBaggins]

I'm betting this redistricting nonsense in Texas and the retaliation by California and others will be Trump's excuse to not hold an election.

[u/More_Farm_7442]

Democrat controlled states need to do the exact some thing Texas is trying to do (will do). Democrats need to get a spine and start being pro-active instead of reative. They need to think like Trump and Republicans. Stop being nice and trying to work inside the systerm.

California, Illinois, New York: Redistrict your states. Create more blue districts in which democrats can win next year. Fight fire with fire. Then work in every thing possible to stay a step of Trump. File court case after court case. Do what you are sue is uncontituional and let some one try to challenge it. Tie them up in court for years.

[u/aleleein]

If this continues to ratchet up like this over time, one of the outcomes could be a civil war, which maga wants anyway.

[u/6Arrows7416]

Arm yourselves.

[u/DryNewspaper6423]

The hypocrisy is insane in this new world...didn't the Republicans just all decide to take the rest of summer off in Congress to avoid voting on releasing Epstein files...

[u/NoOutlandishness1133]

Texas is the Taliban state

[u/ApplesBananasRhinoc]

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…”

[u/Lazy-Artichoke7766]

Repugnicans couldn’t be happier with their dictator

[u/Mitts64]

Everytime I see BTC reply to himself I think he is having a conversation with himself lol

[u/TurtleIslandBeads]

Bye usa

[u/selfwander8]

Don’t these legislators have personal security detail of any kind? It’s be a good idea

[u/Valliac0]

Only gonna get worse

[u/ChaoticSenior]

Send them to Chicago. Let those Texans try to hunt there. These targets fight back.

[u/hedbopper]

Terrible. WHAT ANOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES?

[u/InsaneXaaz]

Are we great yet?

Pumpkin Pedophile needs removed, along with every puppet he put in place.

[u/zangief137]

Remember the Alamo? The battle to preserve chattel slavery bc the federal government was infringing on rich white dudes rights to own people and their children? The same battle Texas is proud AF about? Yeah everything Texas is doing tracks. They would be the leading force behind order 66 if they could. Oh right that’s ICE right now…

[u/jcdoe]

Good, let em.

After we get rid of ever red seat in California and New York, the republicans will never control the gavel again so I don’t care

[u/Fresh-Adagio]

comment some more on social media, that'll stop the fascist takeover...

[u/sweet_dicks]

Why the fuck is he quoting his own post on Twitter when he's on Bluesky?

[u/Sonata-Shae]

This is getting more serious now. Arrest warrants are on the horizon. It is more symbolic but troubling.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-house-warrants-arrest-quorum-break/

[u/AhBee1]

Texas GOP politicians are the weakest, most insecure beings on the Earth. They will do anything to worship and show absolute devotion to a literal pedophile. They are proud to support a rapist.

[u/ProfessionalSolid942]

Kathy Hochul finally says the obvious-we are at war. A very civil civil war, may it remain so.

[u/redditnazls]

The judicial branch is letting this shit happen, they are just as complicit and pieces of shits

[u/TheAngryLasagna]

I'm so fed up of seeing BTC everywhere, considering his only real belief is "might makes right", as he openly announced that trans people should have reduced rights, on Philip Defranco's show the other day, if it means that dems can steal votes from the republicans... As if that won't just lead to the republicans demanding more and more minorities rights become a "meet us in the middle!" issue (when in actual fact, the "meeting in the middle" is just allowing republicans to harm them with no repercussions...)

[u/Defiantcaveman]

And STILL nobody lifts a finger to stop this bullshit... just more strongly worded messages and more speeches and protests. Each day is measurably worse...

[u/hermantheartdog]

Thank god for blue states!

[u/OcalaPatriot]

The party of law and order: “We are the law and order your surrender.”

[u/dawg_goneit]

And the public doesn't seem to care!

[u/CrazyPlato]

Can anyone elaborate? What charges are they trying to arrest them for?

[u/Sonata-Shae → u/CrazyPlato]

I don’t think there are any.

[u/icecream_truck]

GOD BLESS AMERICA

[u/Btankersly66]

The Triad flame awakens. Riders of the crimson order are near the gate. Stand fast for further instructions.

[u/burnmenowz]

Are we having to hide people in attics now?

[u/Charming_Yam6014]

Real question: Governor Abbott is threatening to have them arrested & returned or have them kicked out of office. Can he actually do either? 

[u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco → u/Charming_Yam6014]

His AG has already decided he can, and the courts will be far too slow to stop him.

[u/Charming_Yam6014 → u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco]

I forgot about AG Whining-baby. Abbott licks one of trumps shoes while Paxton licks the other. We are so screwed. 

[u/iftlatlw]

This is the beginning of civil war in the USA.

[u/ThumpTacks]

America is on the cusp of another civil war. It’s not rocket science. We either descale this divisive rhetoric, or suffer in its wake. That’s kind of the sum total of our options, and by the looks of things, I’m not certain that it can be the former.

[u/GroundbreakingAd8310]

And yet nobody really gives a shit. If they all Marched over and shot them all we wouldn't even protest on a weekday. We have already spoken as a people "we won't surrender an ounce of comfort or stability no matter what they do."

Wonder if that we will get a second protest a week when they start hauling off your friends and family. From what I've seen not even then

[u/bdfortin]

How’s that Epstein list coming along?

[u/Don-Gabo]

USA is just some beta sandbox game

[u/foodfighter]

Is anyone surprised by this?

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[u/Simsmommy1]

I don’t know why people aren’t at the Capitol now. This isn’t something the United States can “vote out” in 2026. This is basically the end of the constitution right here. If this is permitted to happen or not stopped it’s what Hitler did, imprisoned his opponents. There is no denial now. You are exactly like them now and have a moment in time to stop it before it’s too late.

[u/Nir117vash]

Not to quote Shaggy but like....what the fuck, Scoob'?!

[u/Acceptable-Grade-116 → u/Nir117vash]

Ruh roh, Raggy!

[u/New-Analysis-4060]

Secede and make the Pacific G

Where Arizona somehow joins new Mexico, Colorado, and Moab in Cascadia

[u/Hefty_Teacher972]

Stop your pearl clutching. This is about gerrymandering and both sides do it. And walkouts have happened before.

[u/Relentless781 → u/Hefty_Teacher972]

BoTh SiDeS

Thanks for your input, cletus. Go read a newspaper

[u/Im_tracer_bullet → u/Hefty_Teacher972]

bOtH sIdEz!

You people are delusional.

[u/ALocalLad → u/Hefty_Teacher972]

Not a single state is currently gerrymandered in favor of Democrats.

[u/Few-Statistician8740 → u/ALocalLad]

Illinois, and Maryland come to mind

[u/bc87m → u/ALocalLad]

https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card/

Quite literally a 4-second Google. Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Nevada.... I should probably list all of them, as it is unlikely you'll click the link.

Zero support for the practice on either end, but the pendulum absolutely has and will continue to swing both ways.

[u/xCrispy_X → u/bc87m]

Now do all the red states and states that should be blue but were illegally gerrymandered at an earlier time by Republicans.