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Texas Plays Cynical Racial Gerrymandering Game to Save House Majority for Trump

Trump’s Justice Department gave political cover for Gov. Greg Abbott to mingle gerrymandering with disaster relief.

murica.website/2025/07/texas-p

murica.websiteTexas Plays Cynical Racial Gerrymandering Game to Save House Majority for Trump – The USA Potato
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#DonaldTheDeplorable has told #BananaRepublicans in the helplessly drowning state of #Texas to redraw districts so he gets 5 extra votes in the House of ‘Representatives’. sacurrent.com/news/as-trump-lo

#Americans need to fight corrupt politicians that want to choose their voters instead of vice versa. #BeLikeCanada 🇨🇦 💪; get our #ElbowsUp and make #gerrymandering ILLEGAL! vox.com/2014/4/15/5604284/us-e

#Resist #USpol

Also: #Americans need to fight #fascism like heroes do in #Ukraine. 🇺🇦 💪

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@ddayen.bsky.social
I’m just a guy from the Netherlands and I do NOT understand this is happening and possible. AND it’s legal AND all in the open 🤯
What’s wrong with just counting the votes and the person with the most votes wins the seat?
Yes, I know who and why it started, I don’t understand why it still exists.
#uspol #GerryMandering

The first reports on this didn't get much traction.
Where the Republicans have power to mess with elections, they use it. In CA, redistricting above county & local was given to a citizens' commission. Result? The Republicans "fixed" counties.

"Greg Abbott accused of trying to ‘fix’ midterms for Republicans by redrawing congressional maps"

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

#elections #2026 #midterms #gerrymandering #Texas

The Guardian · Greg Abbott accused of trying to ‘fix’ midterms for Republicans by redrawing congressional mapsBy Richard Luscombe