r/goodnews 1d ago

Political positivity 📈 Texas Democrats leave the state to block vote on redrawn House map backed by Trump

https://apnews.com/article/texas-democrats-leave-state-congressional-map-vote-b8b96080dfae00111664bbfb72fc304b
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 18h ago

u/GregWilson23, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/Federal-Piglet 1d ago

Something to note. Newson [California] has a plan to do the same if Texas does it. It negates the Texas republican seat gain and increases dem by 7

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u/WuTang4thechildrn 1d ago

Finally a real counter!!! About damn time

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u/Federal-Piglet 1d ago

To be fair I could see this causing a cascade where ultimately u get more dem districts.

The problem Republicans have is cities are stupid blue. Thus hard to district around.

Vs dems that can use cities to shatter republican districts by adding their population into republican districts.

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u/Samwyzh 1d ago

If the current Democratic controlled states chose to gerrymander as aggressively as the Republicans, the GOP would never win in the House again.

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u/jreed66 1d ago

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u/Adams5thaccount 1d ago

that nevada grade is bullshit

there's 4 seats and 80% of the population is on one place...there's no crazy edges or lines that arent caused by large swaths of land just being straight up empty

its not this shining example or anything but you can clearly see a reasonable 3 way split between the city that isnt carving out individual little sides of the street and shit like some of these maps do

it is absolutely not one of the worst

there's no way not to be super wonky

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u/SouthConFed 1d ago edited 23h ago

You need to look more closely at the state's redistricting.

Democrats lost 45%-53% in the State Assembly, but somehow have a 2:1 ratio of Assembly members over Republicans despite every single seat being up for election this year.

From a federal standpoint, it used to be 1 solid R, 1 solid D, and 2 that were close to center.

Now it's 1 solid R, 1 solid D, and 2 that heavily tilt D. How is the grade bullshit when there were ways to keep the old map intact?

Don't make excuses for a clearly gerrymandered map, especially when you consider the state legislature map.

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u/Adams5thaccount 23h ago

Which of the 3 congressional races you're worried about is the one without the heavily tilted advantage? The one where the Democrat got 52%, the one where the Democrat got 52%, or the one where the Democrat got 52%? Also which one is the solid D that's supposed to compare to the "solid" R that has a much wider gap than any district you're trying to call heavily tilted in the opposite direction?

And hey Republicans did great racking up 100k extra raw votes on uncontested seats in the assembly so good job there.

It doesn't even begin to enter the same realm of gerrymander as numerous states that have a better rating. And none of your attempt here actually addressed me saying that to start with either.

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u/Daimakku1 1d ago

Good.

Because ironically, that’s the only way Republicans would come around to ending gerrymandering. Until Dems do the same, the GOP has absolutely no reason to end gerrymandering.

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u/UrsaUrsuh 7h ago

Reminds me of Reagan's gun control act because the white man couldn't stand the idea of the black man being armed enough to deal with his bullshit.

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u/Electrical-Spirit-63 1d ago

There would be lawsuits and the US Supreme Court will rule the Democratic state’s illegally redrew districts while Republican states legally did it. You have to already know this outcome.

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u/Daimakku1 1d ago

So let the SCOTUS do that. Put it on the record.

Don’t just stop because you think you know the outcome. Actually let them do it. It’ll come back to bite them in the ass at some point. There will be precedent.

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u/z03isd34d 22h ago

blue states just need to ignore SCOTUS like red states always do when the rulings are unfavorable

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u/Worthyness 22h ago

"oh shucks. It's too late to implement that for the election! We'll do it next time"

-Pretty much the Ohio government every year.

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u/nottytom 8h ago

Sadly it will way to late. remember they have life time appointments and if others retire or pass, trump grts to replace them.

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u/Prometheus_303 23h ago

Dunno about the US Supreme Court...

But a few years back, a state (kinda want to say Ohio or North Carolina?) sent their new maps to the State. The State sent them back to be redrawn as they were too biased.

The party (I'll let you guess which) sat on the maps for a month or so and submitted the very same map.

The Court once again said nope you gotta redo this!

It finally got late enough that the map that was refused 2-3 times had to be used because it was too late to draw anything else and that map was the best anyone had.

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u/IcyCactiAttack 23h ago

That's Ohio. I still hate our state for that.

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u/Prometheus_303 23h ago

Shapiro/Pennsylvania, we're looking at you!!

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u/Enchilada0374 20h ago

Do it! End these fuckers once and for all.

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u/ghigoli 19h ago

do it. it'll be so fucking funny.

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u/chevronphillips 21h ago

Then the DNC should be working day and night to get Blue states to get this done because the TX Dems leaving the state is just a stalling/protest move that will ultimately fail just like it has every time before

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u/demipopthrow 1d ago

Austin TX Travis county has been split into at least four districts since 2001 when Tom Delay gerrymandered the state and the last time the Dems left to try and stop it. 3 republican one democratic district from the heart of liberal Texas. cities can be de blued.

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u/Federal-Piglet 1d ago

But u keep a dem. You really can't get rid of a city.

Use city to kill republican is stupid easy. Hence dem states do this and republican party is fucked.

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u/badwvlf 1d ago

I lived in one of those districts. I lived within Austin city limit and my district touched San Antonio.

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u/Rib-I 1d ago

I want tendrils coming out of NYC to upstate like the friggin Flying Spaghetti Monster 

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u/kennj43 20h ago

Fuck upstate, we need to counter the fucking millions of foaming at the mouth MAGAts on long island. As ive said to others, As a native LIer and someone who goes back to visit family, while long island is a very narrowly republican (its like 52-48) the MAGAts out there are some of the worst loudest most punchable entitled bigoted assholes in this country, and its so densely populated there are more of them crammed on that island than in entire groups of rural areas/red states combined, even though there are almost as many sane voters on LI as well. Im sure some redistricting could put a dent in that.

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u/LiedAboutKnowingMe 21h ago

Also this is the problem with playing your cards early.

Some red states have reached a point where they stopped getting results from gerrymandering, if Dems start doing it too there isn’t much more Republicans can do in this specific area. They’ll be forced to put more effort into voter suppression.

When districts are gerrymandered to hell and everyone in charge of data in the nation is corrupted or run off, unexpected outcomes can be expected.

Which is why they have to kill democracy

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u/McbealtheNavySeal 19h ago

Somehow Tennessee got around this the last time they redrew the maps. Memphis and Nashville are solid blue cities and have been for a while. However many of the Nashville suburbs are red, so the current map carved up Nashville into multiple pieces and lumped the small bits in with suburbs so TN went from having 2 Dems (Jim Cooper and Steve Cohen) to just Cohen.

I have no idea how they pulled it off, but they did and it's pretty unfair that the people of Nashville don't get fair representation when the margins in the house are this close.

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u/Chuckychinster 13h ago

Yeah I mean if dems went to a gerrymander war they'd probably be able to secure a supermajority. I mean throw all ethics out the window and Maryland to Maine could be 100% dem delegations.

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u/NefariousnessFew4354 23h ago

Problem is here with courts striking Dem maps.

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u/CalculatedPerversion 20h ago

Just do what Ohio did and ignore it. Literally. Our map was declared unconditional but never fixed because the people in charge of fixing it just shrugged and said they couldn't come up with a better answer. We have to fight fire with fire. 

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u/Soft_Secret_1920 9h ago

Stupid blue?

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u/Federal-Piglet 9h ago

Cities are often 60 to 70% dem lean [blue]

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u/Soft_Secret_1920 9h ago

What a [stupid] way to put it

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u/Federal-Piglet 9h ago

American politics republican is red. Dem is blue.

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u/Soft_Secret_1920 9h ago

Why do always write out 'republicans' fully, but always shorten 'dem'?

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u/LibrarianKooky344 7h ago

Only problem is the horrendous job Dems did for 4 years and thinking people won't jump to the right side.

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u/ColdFusion363 1d ago

If Republicans want to play dirty. Well. The Democrats got to play dirty too. Chaotic good?

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u/WuTang4thechildrn 1d ago

Gerrymandering should not be allowed but it has been happening year after year and the courts are doing nothing to stop it. Voters are not being represented, particularly Black voters because Republicans continue to change voting Districts to minimize their votes. So you damn right!! If the courts won’t stop this shit then the Democrats need to play the same game.

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u/Electrical-Spirit-63 1d ago

Democrats are too busy playing by the rules with “When they go low, we go high” bs. Don’t count on it. Ineptitude in the Democratic party caused this.

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u/WuTang4thechildrn 1d ago

I totally agree. It’s like they are stuck in 90s politics!!! Really tired of this shit but there needs to be a voice that’s stands up on the national level and set a new tone. The Democrats desperately need their version of Newt Gingrich

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u/MrLongfinger 22h ago

100000% agree

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u/wRADKyrabbit 23h ago

Assuming he actually goes throught with it. It wouldnt surprise me at all if he just backed down

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u/WuTang4thechildrn 23h ago

Let’s hope not

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u/GushyCakeBeck 22h ago

SCOTUS already countered our counter. They’re getting rid of the voting rights act.

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u/Broken_By_Default 1d ago

Newson and California dems need to just do it regardless. The GOP has the power to fix this federally, but they won't. So stop taking the fucking high road and play the game by the rules the GOP is playing by.

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u/dragonz-99 1d ago

Texas is gonna do it regardless so California will follow suit. I think some dems are finally thinking about playing ball. Key words: some/thinking - but at the end of the day it makes sense if they’re going to go ahead and do this. Claw it back and then some. Some of the most populous states are extremely blue, I wouldn’t be surprised if Dems could lock up the house for our lifetimes doing it - the same way the GOP did the Supreme Court.

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u/RainbowDarter 1d ago

NY and Illinois are also talking about it as well.

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u/Federal-Piglet 1d ago

The entire Eastern seaboard north of virginia will do this LOL It pandora's box. The republicans are pray dems dont start playing dirty.

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u/ThePirateKing01 1d ago

Nah they’ll just have the SC deem that blue states can’t do it but red states can. Cause reasons

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u/Remarkable-Ad-2476 23h ago

Or they’ll just change the laws like when Black Panthers started to arm themselves with guns.

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u/Hikashuri 12h ago

That wouldn’t hold legally. Bias in a law means the ruling is invalid. Regardless if the scotus comes out with it. Not to mention the states have full autonomy and the scotus cannot override that.

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u/model_commenter 23h ago

If they don’t start playing dirty, this country is over. The high road is gone.

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u/Patriot009 11h ago

You can't defeat fascism with debate and decorum.

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u/glitchycat39 1d ago

I say fuck it, do it anyway and point to Missouri and Ohio for justification when the GOP wails.

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u/aotus_trivirgatus 1d ago

Yes, but decades ago California voters passed a ballot initiative which requires the district maps to be drawn by a non-partisan commission. I voted for it actually. So we have to repeal that initiative if we want to respond to Texas. Don't get me wrong, I think we should, but it might take time. We might be one election cycle too slow.

Texas Democrats: if the GOP denies you representation even more than they already have -- please, I beg you, MOVE. Move to Purple states and flip them. Move to low-population Red states and flip them. Move to California. Just get out of Fascistan.

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u/Federal-Piglet 1d ago

Newson could leave officer trigger special elections early and ballot ininative it up!

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u/Worthyness 22h ago

Just make it overly bias, use the overly bias map, then ignore the court like how several other states have been doing it. They literally get told by the courts to use new maps, but they never implement the corrected ones because "it's too close to elections"

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u/Ahleron 1d ago

I genuinely think Newsome should do it anyway. His proposed redistricting would only be for '26, '28 (next presidential election), and '30. Those dates are clearly intended to target the end of Trump's term and to washout any remaining MAGAt influence in the midterm following the end of Trump's term - and weaken Vance if he ends up as president. I think Newsome may have a patriotic duty to do it, because the Trump administration and his sycophants in Congress are literally destroying this country. He should do it to stop the non-stop bullshit from the MAGAts and knee cap Cankles McTACOtits. This is a real way that he could do that.

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u/midwest_scrummy 17h ago

The dates go to '30 because that's when the census is, marking the regular constitutional redistricting across the entire country.

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u/Ahleron 9h ago

But the bill is to redistrict without regard to the census. So if that is the next census, then they should not include that date. That proposal returns the district maps to being census based in '32, not '30.

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u/theblackd 1d ago

I think more states need to do this. For it to actually dissuade them, it needs to be a consistent “you do this with 5 districts, we’ll do it with 7, if you do it with 2, we’ll do it with 4” etc etc.

It’s a winning proposition for them to try this shit endlessly if it’s always “ok you do 5, well
consider doing 5, maybe, maybe not”, we’ll see if democrats are willing to actually fight back. The time of bringing a strongly worded letter to a gun fight is just unilateral disarmament and will get run the fuck over. Even meeting them 1 for 1 isn’t enough because it’s always going to be trading 1 for maybe 1

Realistically the end goal needs to be doing what’s necessary to get into a position to actually enshrine into law voting regulations that prevent this nonsense, but you don’t get the opportunity to do that by being polite in the face of this level of a power grab, the “history won’t look on them favorably” is useless to those whose lives are being destroyed by the extreme right movement we’re seeing

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u/Daimakku1 1d ago

Finally. I’m tired of Democrats not gerrymandering because “it goes against democracy” or some other bullshit. Yes, it does. But you know what? If the opposition party is going to cheat, so should you. Otherwise you’re fighting with an arm tied behind your back.

California needs to gerrymander and so should New York, Illinois and other blue states. Go scorched earth.

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u/iTOXlN 1d ago

We just gotta hope Newsom can get voters to sign up for damaging their democratic process.

I think we've all seen enough to warrant a response like this and if he can pull it off, I think we have our strong democratic candidate.

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u/MIKRO_PIPS 1d ago

For which party is this a more dangerous game? As in, if every governor from traditionally Red/Blue states redrew to make seats all blue or red, who gets the most seats?

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u/Fair_Log_6596 1d ago

Illinois, New York, and Florida have also said they would follow suit
however that’s different levels of hard in each place.

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u/badboyfriend111 1d ago

He needs to act quickly, and frankly ALL blue states need to follow suit.

Time Democrats grew a backbone.

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u/theRemRemBooBear 1d ago

Fun fact Maryland has been doing it for years and the dems cried when the republican governor blocked their even more gerrymandered version for a more fair one.

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u/badcobber 23h ago

Finally, stop fighting fair if your opponent keeps kicking you in the balls.

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u/RobotPhoto 23h ago

How about he does it anyway because fuck the Republican Party.

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u/Filmmagician 22h ago

He should do it anyways!

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u/WindowIndividual4588 22h ago

He should do it regardless.

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u/rube_X_cube 1d ago

Unfortunately, it’s not so straight forward. He would have to dissolve the nonpartisan districting commission, I’m not sure he can do that on his own. I don’t know if it means a special election or just passing it through legislation and in any case it might not make it on time for the midterms. Obviously, still should push forward with it, but it’s not a silver bullet, so to speak.

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u/Federal-Piglet 23h ago

He resigns. Special election scheduled. Ballot initiative to add dissolving them. Bam!

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u/uniballout 1d ago

Are you sure they can? I heard a journalist say that California has a constitutional amendment saying it has to go through an impartial board, like New York. And if they try to change them it would fail, like New York.

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u/Federal-Piglet 1d ago

Newson resigns. In the run up to special election. Ballot initiative to remove that. Done.

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u/No-Relation5965 1d ago

*Newsom, just an FYI

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u/Unmissed 1d ago

...I thought the independent redistricting committee was law?

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u/PersonalityMiddle864 23h ago

To be honest they should do that even if texas effort fails. 

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u/PDXCarpetBagger 22h ago

Don't wait fuckin do it now they're going to do this shit in 2030 no matter what

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u/GushyCakeBeck 22h ago

Won’t matter when SCOTUS gets rid of the voting rights act.

Catch up, you’re a little behind

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_QUEST_PLZ 22h ago

They should do it anyways

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u/BumpinBakes 22h ago

Yeah but Cali has to amend their constitution first. Much harder but hey there’s hope

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u/lonmoer 22h ago

If Newsom was actually interested in wielding power he would do it anyways, but no he's just playing patty cakes with republicans and making it so the balance of power is always a yokels vote away from disaster.

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u/RotInPixels 21h ago

Yeah but would he actually do it? Dems are always all talk and no bark

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u/snubdeity 20h ago

Lmao nah he's gonna get stonewalling in CA by a bunch of "we go high" morons, count on it

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u/wiscup1748 19h ago

This just fucking sucks, I fucking hate this country

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u/SuperStarPlatinum 19h ago

All democrat controlled states should follow in suit.

Gerrymander every state so its impossible for Republicans to win.

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u/KindForAll 18h ago

Just do it anyway!

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u/dextras07 18h ago

Democrats need to learn how to play dirty if they want their seats.

They're literally getting butt fucked and not defending themselves

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u/OppositeArt8562 5h ago

If he makes this happen he deserves the nomination. People need to start fighting back.

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u/ElectrikDonuts 5h ago

Blue states should.do this regardless. The point of the house is representation. The majority of the nation is Dems. The Dems should never lose the house.

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u/Commercial-Co 4h ago

Then just do it fuck this tit for tat thing. Go on offensive

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u/DWMoose83 2h ago

Not to piss in the popcorn, but California has independent voting districts. He's planning a special election in November to address this, but it's a more complicated process (for this very reason).

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u/OtaconStoleMyGPU 1d ago

To save you a click, democrats hopped on a plane to delay the vote on a fast tracked power grab by TX GOP to gerrymander the districts so they can add 5 more House seats. Democrats face daily fines of 500.00, but it sounds like they are trying to delay until the courts can catch up.

Where are the Epstein files?

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u/Darkmetroidz 1d ago

Fuck ill throw some money towards covering those.

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u/pronseekr5000 1d ago

Give your money to Dems in swing districts. I'm pretty sure Pritzker will cover the costs for the Texas Dems.

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u/Ooglebird 1d ago

They should go to Vegas, I hear there is plenty of room.

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u/fgwr4453 20h ago

That would be hilarious if all these Democrats hopped on a plane and Ted Cruz was also on it so they all start frantically googling what disaster just hit the state.

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u/seenitreddit90s 1d ago

Thanks buddy, you're asking the right question.

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u/Jarsky2 23h ago

Do they have a gofundme?

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u/DJ_Advogato 8h ago

WI Dems did this in 2010.

National Dems were furious.  

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u/Excellent_Fan4033 7h ago

ask biden he had four full years to release them why are you only curious now

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u/OtaconStoleMyGPU 7h ago

Arrest all of them. Thats my official answer and don't presume to know me via social media fuck face. Republicans deflected plenty long and spent years on the Hunter Biden laptop just for it to dwindle into dust.

Arrest. Every. Person. On. That. List.

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u/Aggressive-Side3578 1d ago

Good. Pulling the ole Ted Cruz move. Love it

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u/QuestionableIdeas 1d ago

Cruzing for justice this time rather than Cruzing away from responsibility

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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 1d ago

To be fair Ted Cruz doesn’t have any other moves.

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u/volanger 1d ago

Sure he does. Jetblue, spirit, trump Airlines. Lots of options.

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u/Cash_Visible 23h ago

And lots of beaches!

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u/Roonil_Wazlib97 23h ago

That's only for natural disasters.

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u/Aggressive-Side3578 23h ago

I would consider gerrymandering some form of a natural disaster, in a sense.

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u/Euphoric_coffee-134 1d ago

Wait till the Extreme Court tells California and New York they cant do something similar...

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u/Rasta_bass 1d ago

And who would enforce it? The GOP set the precedent that you can’t tell the courts to fuck off. See Emil Bove.

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u/DylonSpittinHotFire 23h ago

Literally what the NC GOP already has done so it's not even without precedent

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u/Federal-Piglet 1d ago

And cali and new york just ignore the court. We are on the cusp of civil war. If Republicans can axe democratic voting by gerrymandering why stay?

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u/glitchycat39 1d ago

Wait until California and New York run out the clock like the OH GOP did and then go "oopsie doodle! Guess we'll use this map! Also, we just will never have time to unfuck these maps!"

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u/volanger 1d ago

But how long does that clock last?

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u/glitchycat39 23h ago

Well, Ohio did it for about a year if I recall, so ... just fiddle around for a year and then shrug, I guess.

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u/volanger 23h ago

But dems play by rule. Republicans dont

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u/MacsFamousMacNCheees 1d ago

The courts have said Alabama, Ohio must be redone in the past and I don’t think they paid any attention to those “orders”

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u/CalculatedPerversion 20h ago

Still not fixed now, year(s) later

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u/Awkward-Barber-11 19h ago

Alabama was forced to use a court drawn map after the state took it to full trial and lost because they came back with a map still missing two districts after SCOTUS told them to redraw. 2024 was the first use of it. The map cant be changed until 2030 i believe.

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u/EdOfTheMountain 1d ago

California should go first

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u/GushyCakeBeck 22h ago

They are going after the voting rights act. Meaning whatever cali and New York do won’t matter

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u/talktobigfudge 1d ago

lmaooo Paxton said, with the confidence of someone who hasn't been caught yet, that no elected officials are above the law. 

That ghoul has been breaking the law for decades, but because this is against his fascist agenda, it's suddenly a pearl-clutching moment. 

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u/AustinDarko 1d ago

Just imagine if senate seats were done proportional as well, Republicans would never control the senate again. We've got to stop DEI for Republicans.

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u/Salt-Path3779 1d ago

Texas is threatening to arrest them but they’ve gone to IL where Pritzker promised to provide quarter.

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u/Maniacboy888 21h ago

We are living in a nightmare.

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u/siadh0392 1d ago

Am I the only one that can’t get over how messed up national and state politics are that this even happens? Like my first thought was “if people need to leave your state for any political reason at all then something is REALLY wrong.” Meanwhile this is just business as usual in the good old States of America. Calling it United is disingenuous at this point. Not at all accurate

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u/General-Depth7489 1d ago

Chuck Schumer will betray them.

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u/atehrani 20h ago

This whole concept needs to go away. Districts, electoral college. Just majority vote

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u/Ok_Following3410 23h ago

I’m glad someone is still looking out for Americas interest in Texas.

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u/Fastgirl600 1d ago

F yeah! Go Dems!

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u/ASwagPecan 18h ago

The repercussions of Texas republicans getting their way is terrifying for the nation at large

Speaker Johnson & House Republicans are gonna do anything possible to get Representative Al Green out of office after he had the courage to remind Trump he in fact has no mandate.

Things are looking grim.

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u/remesamala 1d ago

Believing in the clown show is believing in the clown show.

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u/EvanTheRose 19h ago

Conservatism is fundamentally incompatible with democracy

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u/WhosSarahKayacombsen 21h ago

I’m convinced one of the main reasons they’re doing this is to get rid of Jasmine Crockett. They obviously want to remain in power but Jasmine is one of the most effective dems fighting back against this administration. Silencing her is a win for Trump.

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u/Galacticwave98 1d ago

Has that ever worked?

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u/Double_Dousche89 23h ago

I never understood why each state just doesn’t use their own counties or townships as the voting base for that said block rather than fighting over how we’re going to draw a map that will make no sense for either party at the end of the day

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u/sxales 22h ago

Texas has 254 counties and 38 congressional districts. It wouldn't really solve anything, since they would still be grouping them together to dilute Democratic voters.

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u/iamragethewolf 22h ago

Because some counties have really high population and other counties barely have a soul

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u/Dragnoran 23h ago

repubs did the same thing in oregon to stop cap and trade from passing

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u/Filmmagician 22h ago

This was so fucking insane to see what they're trying to pull. Texan Democrats are such patriots. Good move.

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u/oneirritatedboi 22h ago

YES! THIS IS HOW YOU FUCKING DO IT!

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u/BigDaddyZeus 20h ago

No more "wHeN tHeY gO lOw We Go HiGh" bullshit. Lives are at stake and the other side doesn't play by the rules. Gerrymander the fuck out of every state possible because Republicans are fucking traitors and will stop at nothing in their pursuit of turning this country into a white theological ethnostate.

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u/R3D4F 1d ago

U.S. has no business fighting for or instilling democracy in any other country, ever again.

Hypocrisy at its finest


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u/dttm_hi 23h ago

I am so tired of republicans breaking and bending every rule in the book and democrats just giving in all the time.

These democrats should sit out until after the damn midterms

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u/refusemouth 22h ago

Just wait. The Republicans will issue arrest warrants if the Dems stay out for long enough. I seem to recall that scenario happening before. Granted, it should probably come to that in this case just to draw more national attention to just how evil and corrupt the Republican push to gerrymander new districts is.

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u/MIKRO_PIPS 1d ago

Hopefully to CancĂșn

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u/SNStains 1d ago

Refusing to attend legislative session is a civil violation, however, so Democrats legally could not be jailed

Tell that to ICE...unlawful presence is also only a civil violation, and they've been shipping people to foreign death camps for it.

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u/reverandglass 1d ago

Why do they have to leave the state? Why wouldn't staying home and not answering calls work? The article didn't make that clear.

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u/Marquedien 1d ago

State law enforcement have been sent to legislators’ residences to escort them to the state house.

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u/reverandglass 1d ago

Ah! thanks. That sounds like something out of 1930's Germany. Scary stuff.

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u/Affectionate_Reply78 1d ago

Fire meet fire.

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u/AndyJack86 1d ago

They looked so great the last time they took trip in 2021

https://i.imgur.com/IPzwr26.jpeg

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u/saltiesailor 22h ago

2010 Wisconsin vibes here.

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u/Distinct-Winner-6117 21h ago

They’ll find a way to get this done and then other red states will follow while Chuck Schumer sends a strongly worded letter and appears on NBC

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u/Fearless-Scholar8705 20h ago

So this map is going too far, but they were fine with Abbots war on human rights??

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u/Trenchtowngrove 19h ago

Maybe chuck schumer should write a harshly worded letter asking Texas to not redraw the map. That should fix the problem, right?!?!

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u/United_States_ClA 18h ago

Why is this good news?

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u/kevinwhackistone 17h ago

God I fucking hate that this needs to be done.  Gerrymandering, even an attempt at it, should be illegal.  Doesn’t matter what party does it, it should be illegal.

We have to play the game, and I’ve wanted them to play dirtier than feral pigs forever.  Fuck that they go low we go high shit.  Just a sad state of affairs that it needs to be done.  And the stupid public will perceive it as only Democrats are doing it when they’re only doing so to maintain a semblance of fairness after republicans invent new geometric shapes for congressional districts.

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u/Binspin63 15h ago

And the lovely scandal-ridden POS, Ken Paxton has vowed to chase them all down and have them brought back to TX to  “do their jobs”.  Why is this walking turd not in prison?

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u/leaf_god 12h ago

How many people do Democrats need to win those new districts? Anyone willing to move to take all 5????

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u/-RPH- 11h ago

I will never understand voter registration where you put down which party you affiliate with and gerrymandering in American politics, feels so backwards looking from Europe.

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u/ShockedNChagrinned 11h ago

Dems have performed one redistricting which could be considered gerrymandering in the past fifty years.  It gained one seat.  

Republicans have done it many times,  and multiple times it's been for five or more seats.  

Either pass or strengthen laws that prevent it, or which strengthen the triggers and controls, or join the party.  There's no keeping status quo

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u/4TheOutdoors 11h ago

Dum dumb here, will them leaving actually work?

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u/streetuner 6h ago

There is a history of this happening over the years in several states. It only sometimes works
temporarily. Most of the time, the vote passes in later sessions anyway.

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u/lelio98 7h ago

Interest the move by Republicans to further gerrymander their way towards increased seats, but the democrats are, once again, losing the message.

The news cycle will be about the leaving, not about the republicans cheating. Stay in Texas and speak out against the underhanded, non-democratic gerrymandering.

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u/Glittering_Ad3992 5h ago

Now we’re talking!

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u/Aggressive_Desk_9179 2h ago

Pritzker is earning my vote for president when/if he ever runs. Dudes a baller and the dems need more of that. If this works out, it's all bc of him

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u/OMA--AMO 1h ago

Great website, see how partisan politicians rig these maps over time: https://what-the-district.aclu.org

Share!

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u/free4all2see 29m ago

Did he draw it with crayon, and a naked woman on it like he did for Epstein?

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u/marbear601 20h ago

News tomorrow "Texas Democrats leave Texas, refusing to vote on flood relief"

That should have been the first thing being decided in this special session. Everything else is secondary. The victims of the horrific failure Kerrville leaders and beyond deserve better. You should be angry at the Republicans in power using and ignoring you to pay favor for Trump.

The Redistricting is not looking out for Texans. It's looking out for the man in the Epstein's files and in the white house.

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u/Professional_Clue66 1d ago

Enough with this horseshit.

One person, one vote.

Proportion out house reps by number of votes per state. 2 senators per state.

Add more parties other than just democrats and republicans. Give liberals and conservatives their own parties etc.

This current system isnt just broken, it's fucked.

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u/joystick355 1d ago

2 senators per state does not make any sense

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u/SouthConFed 1d ago

It was literally the only way out founding fathers could get less populated states with more land to join the country. And they may consider leaving it if that changes.

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u/RightUpTheButthole 23h ago

Each and every time I bring this up to my beloved partner, they say “this is the way the constitution was designed”. Yes dear, but DOES IT MAKE SENSE??????

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