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47 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

get out the vote is the best way to fight back 

If need be, Ice's 10,000 new agents will mitigate that effort.  We've been fully fucked since last November.

 

 

 

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Senator Warnock reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. What’s most amazing about this is that it wasn’t that long ago that voting rights bills were approved almost unanimously. WTH happened to us?

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/sen-raphael-warnock-reintroduces-john-lewis-voting-rights-advancement-act/85-52089c4f-9226-47c6-8d7b-74518ba01d90

Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia unveiled the measure, titled the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, with the backing of Democratic leaders. The bill stands little chance of passage in the Republican-led Congress, but it provides the clearest articulation of Democrats' agenda on voting rights and election reform.

The legislation would reestablish and expand the requirement that states and localities with a history of discrimination get federal approval before changing their voting laws. It would also require states to allow same-day voter registration, prevent voters from being purged from voter rolls if they miss elections and allow people who may have been disenfranchised at the ballot box to seek a legal remedy in the courts.

“Democracy is the very house in which we live. It is the framework in which we get to fight for the things that we care about,” Warnock said. “These last seven months have reminded us that we ought not take any of it for granted. We are literally in a fight for the life of the republic.”

Warnock was joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, as well as Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Alex Padilla of California. The senators were flanked by dozens of activists, including voting rights advocates, environmental campaigners, faith leaders and union organizers.

The reintroduction comes at a precarious moment for the Voting Rights Act. The enforcement mechanisms of the law have been removed or hampered by two decades of court rulings and lapsed congressional reauthorizations. And an unusual push by Republicans in several states to redistrict congressional maps five years ahead of schedule has also raised questions about the effectiveness of the law in protecting voters

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Because The U.S. Constitution doesn't explicitly forbid gerrymandering for partisan advantage, maybe the time has come for such an amendment to be passed.

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1 hour ago, Satchel said:

Because The U.S. Constitution doesn't explicitly forbid gerrymandering for partisan advantage, maybe the time has come for such an amendment to be passed.

The Constitution doesn't address political parties

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I'd lose Jasmie Crockett and get...?

Mark Veasey currently has 33rd, which I'd get shunted into, but his current gerrymandered district looks like it's getting split all kinds of crazy.  So who knows who'd wind up running/winning 33rd.

These gqp bastards.  

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3 hours ago, CTC2 said:

I figured I would stay in District 10 because McCaul’s house looks down on my backyard, but it is just insane how it carves up just a sliver of Travis and then goes over and grabs rural East Texas. 

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as a west lake hills resident, i am in a different district than people in barton hills and zilker directly across mopac, but in the same district as people in crockett and corrigan?

fucking clowns man.

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33 minutes ago, bolverk said:

TX-11: Same same.

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I found out about Notrees for the first time two months ago, on my way to Hobbs, NM from Odessa. 

But seriously, this is some bullshit.

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6 hours ago, CTC2 said:

I figured I would stay in District 10 because McCaul’s house looks down on my backyard, but it is just insane how it carves up just a sliver of Travis and then goes over and grabs rural East Texas. 

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Circle C and Victoria in the same district?  Seems legit.

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On 7/30/2025 at 4:51 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

@Ag with kids thinks this is fine because Texas votes 56% R in presidential elections 

California has their Congressional representation at 83% Democrat/17% Republican.  Illinois has it at 82%/18%.  New York is at 73%/27%.

All 3 have now discussed doing ADDITIONAL gerrymandering in response to the Texas effort.

All of those states vote around 58%-55% Democrat.

 

Spare me your outrage....

 

And damn you for dragging me back here to talk about politics...

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28 minutes ago, Ag with kids said:

California has their Congressional representation at 83% Democrat/17% Republican.  Illinois has it at 82%/18%.  New York is at 73%/27%.

All 3 have now discussed doing ADDITIONAL gerrymandering in response to the Texas effort.

All of those states vote around 58%-55% Democrat.

 

Spare me your outrage....

 

And damn you for dragging me back here to talk about politics...

Wait. You’ve consistently supported a consideration of party support in creating congressional districts.
My opinion is and has always been that partisan gerrymandering is bad, period, at all times and in all places and that party outcomes should *never* be considered in the districting process.

Have you changed your mind? California and Illinois just do what you’ve always advocated for. 
The difference is that you and I don’t live in those places. And for the record. I really don’t care about them. I do care that northern Hays county, where I served in an official capacity for about a decade, will be deprived of congressional representation by sharing a rep with places that it has nothing in common with.

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Btw, @Ag with kids, are you OK?
Is that the best you can do? After defending such an unconcionable position for so many years it’s pretty sad that “the Dems in California do it too!!1!1!!” is where you landed, like I give a fuck about what Democrats do, or California. Whom are you even addressing?
It makes me think your media diet must be pretty low calorie. 

How about this:  if you can’t defend this gerrymander, at least you know your party is going to get to the bottom of this Epstein scandal, amirite.

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2 hours ago, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said:

Circle C and Victoria in the same district?  Seems legit.

If memory serves me right, judging by that map, a 9 minute drive on I-35 from a North Austin Home Depot (Howard Lane and I-35) to the Round Rock offices of the Carlson Law Firm (Exit 251) would pass through five different Congressional districts.

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Circle C and Victoria in the same district?  Seems legit.

Well I live in circle c and my wife was born in Victoria so it’s probably her fault somehow
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A reasonable person without context might look at the GOP proposal and guess that this is an attempt by a party that has historically been abused by the gerrymander to prove that there has to be some boundary to how abusive a gerrymander can be. Unfortunately, here in the real world, we know this is the GOP trying to prove that there is truly no limit that the current incarnation of the USSC will impose on gerrymandering, so long as it is undertaken by the GOP.

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At this point can we just give rural America to these assholes to do whatever fascist, regressive, Handmaids Tale shit they want with it and in exchange they leave us the fuck alone in our cities? Just please leave us the fuck alone, you backwards, ignorant freaks. 

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4 hours ago, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said:

Circle C and Victoria in the same district?  Seems legit.

michael cloud is a douche bag of the highest order 

victoria usually has low voter turnout around. this district is very flippable if circle c shows up 

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5 hours ago, Ag with kids said:

 

And damn you for dragging me back here to talk about politics...

Much easier to ignore the destruction of the rule of law, the evil of deportee torture camps, the wholesale grift that has replaced governing, and the misery that will result from 17 million citizens losing healthcare. Damn you.

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7 hours ago, Ag with kids said:

California has their Congressional representation at 83% Democrat/17% Republican.  Illinois has it at 82%/18%.  New York is at 73%/27%.

All 3 have now discussed doing ADDITIONAL gerrymandering in response to the Texas effort.

All of those states vote around 58%-55% Democrat.

 

Spare me your outrage....

 

And damn you for dragging me back here to talk about politics...

You stupid motherfucker, you make a political statement every time you post on this website because your avatar is a dumbass political joke. You do it everywhere except the place that's designated for politics. 

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9 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Wait. You’ve consistently supported a consideration of party support in creating congressional districts.
My opinion is and has always been that partisan gerrymandering is bad, period, at all times and in all places and that party outcomes should *never* be considered in the districting process.

Have you changed your mind? California and Illinois just do what you’ve always advocated for. 
The difference is that you and I don’t live in those places. And for the record. I really don’t care about them. I do care that northern Hays county, where I served in an official capacity for about a decade, will be deprived of congressional representation by sharing a rep with places that it has nothing in common with.

Also, those states are doing it specifically in response to Texas' cynical effort.  It's not in response to "organic" urging from a "left-wing" official or party.

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Our system of drawing up congressional districts is ripe for abuses. Both parties do it. The judicial system has at least tried to limit those abuses by the threat of continued denial if they're not somewhat reasonable at least at the macro level.

While the system sucks, I don't see a better one. Yes I would prefer a system where we apportion the seats by a statewide vote. Say Texas goes 56%-42%-2% (2024 Texas presidential results.) That rounds to giving the seats to 21 (GOP), 15 (Dem) and 1 Ind. But who and how do we decide who gets to go to DC, and do they really represent their constituents?

On the flip side, nationwide system looks to balance itself. Trump beat Harris on the popular vote 49.8%-48.3. The House is relatively close to these percentages. But if Texas goes crazy to disenfranchise Dems, then Dems need some blue states to follow like CA to disenfranchise republicans.

 

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10 hours ago, Ag with kids said:

California has their Congressional representation at 83% Democrat/17% Republican.  Illinois has it at 82%/18%.  New York is at 73%/27%.

All 3 have now discussed doing ADDITIONAL gerrymandering in response to the Texas effort.

All of those states vote around 58%-55% Democrat.

 

Spare me your outrage....

 

And damn you for dragging me back here to talk about politics...

Post their maps fucknut

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From the Texas Tribune: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/texas-redistricting-congressional-maps-house-republicans/

Texas has 38 Congressional districts. The proposed map narrows the number of districts with a Democratic voting majority down to 7.

  • 2 in DFW
  • 2 in Houston
  • 1 in San Antonio
  • 1 in Austin
  • 1 in El Paso

This translates to a mere 18% of districts, while overall, Texas voted for Harris at a 42% rate. This is a HUGE efficiency gap.

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11 hours ago, Ag with kids said:

California has their Congressional representation at 83% Democrat/17% Republican.  Illinois has it at 82%/18%.  New York is at 73%/27%.

All 3 have now discussed doing ADDITIONAL gerrymandering in response to the Texas effort.

All of those states vote around 58%-55% Democrat.

 

Spare me your outrage....

 

And damn you for dragging me back here to talk about politics...

Y’all broke the after census cycle. Did you think that the rest of us would just lay back and enjoy it?  It’s just one more step down the road of losing what actually made us great. Say what you want but while plenty of responsibility exists to go around, Republicans don’t like democracy and want everyone to live under their repressive, religious, and racist views. It pisses you guys off that the rest of us won’t go along with it. 
What did you Nazi’s expect would happen when you broke the 10 year redistricting cycle?  The rest of us just to accept it?  Fuck all of you.

Our democratic republic is going down and you guys and your cult leader are the ones who are intent on taking it there. Republicans won’t stop as their goal is to have everyone bow to their repressive will. 

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I don't think those Valley districts are going to break they way they think unless Trump is on the ballot, and even when Trump is on the ballot and wins (like he did in Laredo for example) the incumbent Dem still does pretty well. They gerrymandered the 15th like hell (adding votes from Wilson and Jim Wells counties) and could only flip the district due to Brandon's unpopularity. I think it was a hold in 2024 because of Trump but it's exactly the kind of race that, in a 2018-style blue wave, a supercandidate (like Beto was in 2018) could help a downballot challenger defeat an incumbent republican.

All democrats who tried to act tough on the border FAFO'd

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/23/michelle-vallejo-monica-de-la-cruz-south-texas-congress-border/

Whoever they try to run in TX-15 assuming this new map holds cannot be weak.

I have no idea how popular De La Cruz is down there but she doesn't strike me as particularly charismatic or skilled. Not that I trust the Texas Dems not to fuck this up, but all of those valley districts are winnable.

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26 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

Y’all broke the after census cycle. Did you think that the rest of us would just lay back and enjoy it?  It’s just one more step down the road of losing what actually made us great. Say what you want but while plenty of responsibility exists to go around, Republicans don’t like democracy and want everyone to live under their repressive, religious, and racist views. It pisses you guys off that the rest of us won’t go along with it. 
What did you Nazi’s expect would happen when you broke the 10 year redistricting cycle?  The rest of us just to accept it?  Fuck all of you.

Our democratic republic is going down and you guys and your cult leader are the ones who are intent on taking it there. Republicans won’t stop as their goal is to have everyone bow to their repressive will. 

 

Yep. Tom DeLay and the GOP started this intercensal shit in Texas 20 years ago. And, hell, the CURRENT Texas maps that we're using for elections are STILL winding their way through the courts due to challenges.

And since this is Texas we're talking about, which does have a long history of gerrymandering, think about who's always done it to stay in power: Conservative "good ol' boys," both before and after they all switched parties following the Civil Rights Act. They were always racist motherfuckers.

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If you want to make comment:  https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c055

“Texas taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for a special session just to redraw maps that were already declared fair and legal by the very people who now want to change them. If nothing material has changed — no new census, no court ruling — then what is this really about? The explanation offered, a vague letter, is not justification for upending the democratic map-drawing process again. This is not about fairness; it’s about keeping political control.”

 

 



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