Post AxSvqdrP7Obz3POMQi by dingodog19@sfba.social
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 (DIR) Post #AxSf3cf1BxNnsQCboG by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-08-23T12:28:39Z
       
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       The #Texas #Legislature gave final approval on late Saturday to an aggressively redrawn congressional map that kicked off a #redistricting race between the parties that is likely to affect the fight for #Congress long before any ballots are cast in the 2026 #midterms.Gov #GregAbbott has said he would sign the map into #law once it reaches his desk.#law #ElectionLaw #gerrymandering #Trump #felon47 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/texas-redistricting.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
       
 (DIR) Post #AxSfBnOZAGTPUDP83U by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-08-23T12:30:08Z
       
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       The #State #Senate passed the map in a party-line vote just days after it was approved by the #Texas #House on Wednesday. The new lines on Texas’ congressional districts were drawn to deliver #Republicans up to 5 #US House seats & help *preserve* [steal] the party’s thin majority.#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #rigged #midterms #gerrymandering #Trump #felon47
       
 (DIR) Post #AxSfWscavdI7mD1HsW by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-08-23T12:33:51Z
       
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       “I’m convinced that if #Texas does not take this action, that there is an extreme risk that that #Republican majority will be lost,” [then it should be] said State Sen Phil King during the floor debate Friday. He said at several points that he did not “look any racial data.” [sic]TX #Democrats …said the newly drawn lines illegally diminished the voting strength of #Black, #Hispanic & #Latino Texans. They have vowed to file suit against the map after it is adopted.#law #gerrymandering #Trump
       
 (DIR) Post #AxSfnWbC3rMoOiIjyK by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-08-23T12:36:53Z
       
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       After >8 hrs of debate on Friday, the adoption of a procedural motion by #Republicans denied #Democrats a chance to filibuster, moving the chamber to the final vote. The motion argued that a Democratic state senator who had planned to filibuster, Carol Alvarado, had promoted it as a campaign fund-raising event.The bill passed on a vote of 18 to 11 just after 12:30AM LtGov Dan Patrick called for people in the gallery—who were shouting “shame” & “fascist”—to be removed.#law #gerrymandering
       
 (DIR) Post #AxSg0abCV4f0ZIXBRI by Nonilex@masto.ai
       2025-08-23T12:39:18Z
       
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       The repercussions of the push for redistricting in #Texas have proved dramatic. #Trump first broached the Texas #gerrymander months ago to initially skeptical #Republicans, hoping to stave off Democratic victories in #US #House elections that would cost his party #control of the chamber in 2027. Since then, mid-decade redistricting—once a rarity in US politics—is threatening to reverse decades of movement toward less partisan political mapmaking.#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #midterms
       
 (DIR) Post #AxSvqdrP7Obz3POMQi by dingodog19@sfba.social
       2025-08-23T15:36:09Z
       
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       @Nonilex If you think that your party will lose, and therefore you must change the rules, then you don't believe in democracy