Governor reveals election rigging response act to counter Trump’s push to gain five extra seats in Texas midterms
Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, said on Thursday state Democratic lawmakers would move forward with a redistricting plan to counter the Republican-led map-drawing effort in Texas aimed at securing a House majority after the midterm elections.
Newsom, joined by congressional Democrats and legislative leaders, unveiled a plan, known as the election rigging response act, that would override California’s independent redistricting commission and draw new congressional lines – a direct counter to a Texas effort, sought by Donald Trump, to push through mid-cycle maps that could hand Republicans five extra US House seats. The governor vowed the move would “neuter and neutralize” Texas’s proposal.
“Today is liberation day in the state of California,” Newsom declared at a rally in Los Angeles, in which he formally called for a 4 November special election to approve a new congressional map. “We can’t stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district all across the country.”
This is still a form of gerrymandering, right? I hope this does not kick off a wave of disenfranchisement across other red states.
We really need to get the US territories statehood/representation too. And DC.
We tried playing fair, that got us Trump twice
I understand. I just fear out of control escalation like bickering characters in a cartoon.
It’s already out of control. This is self defense.
We already lost the rule of law to a dictator. We didn’t fire the first shot of this civil war, but we can’t ignore it.
I would hardly call it a civil war. It’s a civil struggle for sure, but I don’t think the majority of Americans have their heart in it, and nor should they. They’re being ruled by a minority.
For my part, I don’t consider MAGATs to be Americans anymore. It is a fundamental reason why I am learning how to use a gun, because I assume that the America we knew is no longer a thing. Concentration camps are not a sign of peace and civility.
I’m right there with you. These people have shown they simply don’t understand what it means to be an American. They’ve betrayed every value.
When Jan 6th happened it should’ve been the final wake-up call. Every Republican should be filled with the deepest shame and regret.
There are masked men with guns in unmarked cars disappearing people without any law binding them. What would you call that?
I understand, but, if playing the game by the rules doesn’t result in victory…
Gotta beat 'em at their own game. Good thing they’re parotting senile child rapists and are incredibly predictable. Clever is not in their playbook.
Hunh. Kinda like the Confederacy. 🤷🏼♂️
Do they need clever when they just barrel through every obstacle without even stumbling?
They stumble, it is just that the good guys offered a hand. Up to now, I and many other Americans thought the MAGATs were part of our society. With each abuse that the MAGA perpetuates, that belief crumbles ever faster. If this keeps up, normies will end up socking the bastards.
Just a note that none of this impacts presidential elections.
But if Texas does their thing, this would be a necessary response for the house
True… but if Trump has to contend with Democrat majorities in the house and Senate then he would have an incentive not to do illegal shit because he could be removed from office.
For house, sure, Senate not so much.
He might have faced legislative resistance to his initiatives, but removal from office would never have been on the table.
Hopefully the results is that everyone is concerned about gerrymandering instead of just Democrats and something can be done about it at the federal level.
Somehow I doubt the trumpers are worried. They just want to win. If anything can guarantee their state goes for Trump they’ll take it.
I’m not American, but from my limited experience, my QAnon relatives (who are immigrants themselves in another western country!) were ok with martial law and taking away women’s rights as the price to pay to get out of the “dictatorship” they imagined with “forced vaccination” and “LGBT indoctrination” and immigrant “invasion”. They also have no problem with taking away LGBT rights because “they have too many now, look at Hollywood”. They constantly bring up about how Jews run the world and how bad Israel is, but they have no problem with Trump being their lapdog and enabling their worst atrocities and fantasizing about building a riviera in Gaza. When all the Palestinians there will have perished (something I dread is likely to happen), they’ll probably credit Trump with ending the genocide. And don’t get me started on Epstein, which was their whole reason for joining QAnon. Back in February they were excitedly telling me, unprompted, how Pam Bondi says the files are on her desk. They haven’t said anything since. Wanna bet they’ll get defensive if I ask them about it now?
My point is these people don’t care about democracy or human rights, they just scream about them when they experience disconfort, but really all they want is a godking who punishes “the right people” and reminds them every 10 seconds how special they are and how they deserve freedom and sovereignty not like the bad people who they are always persecuted by.
what do you mean, “kick off”?
Kicking off, say, five other states redrawing maps to cancel out California and to head off other blue states trying the same.
That sort of frantic escalation wouldn’t be good.
from what I’ve gathered (although it’s been hard for me to find the exact info I’m looking for) most of the states with nonpartisan or bipartisan redistricting commissions seem to be democratic states by a significant margin.
safe to assume the ones that have partisan commissions are already gerrymandered to hell and back. and there’s little to gain from doing it more; there will be diminishing returns.
i think an all out war would mostly benefit the dems but again i don’t have very concrete data so I’ll qualify these statements to be based on gut and not much more.
That’s my gut feeling as well. Gerrymandering is a Republican tradition and they’ve been doing it in red states for decades now. Hard to believe there’s much more to squeeze from it. Blue states however…