The gerrymander would benefit the GOP and dilute Black and Brown voters’ power. The House may now decide its fate.
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Texas Senate Passes Map After 2 Democrats Fail to Join House Member Walkout Read Post »
Ken Paxton’s path to becoming one of the conservative movement’s most powerful lawyers is littered with the sort of obstacles that might have brought a more reputable politician down. The third-term Texas attorney general is a law enforcement official whose own staff reported him to law enforcement; a former state representative who was later impeached […]
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Ken Paxton Is Beating John Cornyn…In a Race to the Bottom Read Post »
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a fan of a Christian nationalist pastor who believes women should no longer be allowed to vote. On Thursday, Hegseth, who oversees the US military, reposted a CNN video on the social media site X about Doug Wilson, co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. The video notes that […]
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Trump’s Defense Secretary Seems to Admire Men Who Want to Stop Women From Voting Read Post »
A lot of people want to get a hold of James Talarico these days. The 36-year-old Texas state representative and seminary student is a rising Democratic star. You—like 5.6 million others—may have seen him in your social-media feed, calling a proposal to place the Ten Commandments in every public-school classroom “un-Christian” and the mark of […]
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“It’s Not Just a Texas Problem. It’s an American Problem.” Read Post »
On July 24, US Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Latina Democrat from Houston, traveled to Austin to testify before the Texas House against the mid-decade congressional redistricting plan pushed by Donald Trump that was designed to give Republicans five new seats in the US House. Garcia said Republicans were motivated not just by political expediency, but […]
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The Nation’s Landmark Voting Rights Law Just Turned 60. It May Not Survive Trump. Read Post »
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to hide what you are doing in Washington, announce it on a Friday evening in the heat of August. Better yet, in place of clarity, reference some pages in another document, so that people have to track that down and read it in order to […]
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The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It Read Post »
Should Democrats be revenge gerrymandering? “Hell yeah,” says Texas congressional candidate, Isaiah Martin. On Sunday evening, Texas House Democrats fled the state to try to block an effort by state Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional map and flips five districts from blue to red. Some Democrats are now looking for blue states to return […]
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Dems Are in Their “Revenge Gerrymander” Era and This Zellennial Candidate Is Here for It Read Post »
On Sunday evening, Texas House Democrats made the fateful decision to flee the state to block Republicans from quickly passing a new Trump-ordered redistricting plan that could give Republicans up to five new seats in the US House, rigging the midterms before a single vote has been cast. It’s a risky and expensive strategy for […]
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Fleeing Texas Was the Only Way Democrats Could Block Trump’s Plan to Rig the Midterms Read Post »
“When you can’t win fairly, you cheat, and that is exactly what this is,” a civil rights advocate said of Trump’s ploy.
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Democrats Are Struggling to Block Trump’s Texas Power Grab Read Post »
Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterms became crystal clear on Wednesday, as Texas Republicans introduced a new congressional redistricting map that would give their party five new seats in the US House, making it much more difficult for Democrats to retake the chamber next November. The map is designed to give Republicans control […]
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Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy Read Post »
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that private citizens have no standing to sue for disability-based violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the landmark federal legislation which protects, among other things, the right to voting assistance for disabled people and voters with low English literacy. The Eighth Circuit’s jurisdiction covers Arkansas, […]
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Voters Can’t Sue for Disability Discrimination, Court Rules Read Post »
To justify their brazen effort to redraw US House districts in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterms, state Republicans cited a Department of Justice letter alleging that four districts—all represented by Black or Latino Democrats—were “unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.” But on Tuesday, President Trump said the quiet part out loud, admitting that a “very simple redrawing” […]
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Blame John Roberts for Enabling Trump’s Massive Power Grab in Texas Read Post »
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