The question of which party likes gerrymandering and has done it a lot more is not even close
06.03.2026 22:54
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The question of which party likes gerrymandering and has done it a lot more is not even close
Democrats in California and Virginia have targeted 9 Republicans in response to Republicans in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio targeting … 9 Democrats.
At most it’s a proportionate response, but even that may overstate how many seats Democrats would likely flip solely thanks to new maps
Georgia Democrats are running in 204 state legislative races, contesting 88% of House seats and 82% of Senate seats – Democrats’ highest number of qualified candidates and contested seats in at least three decades, according to the state party
[Republican also passed new gerrymanders in Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio]
Ruffini: Doesn’t look like anything to me
a graph of employment at newspapers, which continually goes down
It's remarkable how low this number can get and still keep going down
After nearly a decade measuring American public support for political violence, @nathankalmoe.bsky.social and I have published a somewhat comprehensive guide to measuring these attitudes. This includes historical comparisons and responses to common critiques. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
Wow, a huge bipartisan coalition passed a bill in the Missouri House to allow anyone who is not presently incarcerated to vote.
More than half the states allow this, but Democrats have led this in the last decade. Haven't seen a GOP-led chamber pass this in that time. Big deal.
With a sudden surge of open House sets on the GOP side, we're once again in record territory. Democrats have slowed the pace recently.
Iceland will hold a referendum on Aug. 29 to decide whether to relaunch its stalled talks to join the EU, its government said today.
NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.
Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.
That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.
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There are a lot of cynical responses to this that are possible, even appropriate, but this finding is an indication of both how we got here & a window into how dire the democratic crisis. Co governance is pretty hard if you assume bad faith from most of your fellows *especially* if it’s warranted.
Online gambling companies are the 21st century equivalent of Big Tobacco—with the bonus of insider trading corruption and providing fuel for election conspiracy theories
An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.
May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.
Oh wow. North Carolina Republican Bob Rucho—whose name is on the caption of the infamous 2019 SCOTUS case that greenlighted partisan gerrymandering, Rucho v. Common Cause—has resigned from the state Board of Elections after violating a ban on board members donating to political candidates.
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“Proportional systems also have a unique advantage when applied to the U.S. context: It is possible to achieve fair representation for voters of color without race-conscious districting. In fact, [PR] makes gerrymandering functionally impossible if enough seats are elected per district.”
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
A story that really deserves more national attention: Kansans are fighting a new state law that invalidated transgender residents’ driver’s licenses & birth certificates, depriving them of required voter ID shortly before the 2026 primary election 🧵
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
excellent deep dive into all of the ways that the Trump administration has used the federal budget to keep punishing critics and trying to bend them to his will. FWIW, this is precisely how Viktor Orban crushed the opposition in Hungary 15 years ago. The national budget is a powerful weapon.
A majority of Harris voters lived in Trump states.
A majority of Trump voters in 2020 lived in Biden states.
Democrats have won 42-46% of the vote in the South in every presidential election over the past three decades.
States and regions of the country aren’t monoliths
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.
Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.
NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs
NEW: Governor Jared Polis (D) tells me Tina Peters would have to show appropriate contrition for her crimes to receive clemency. Polis is clearly leaning strongly toward it. Our conversation tonight on @nexton9news.bsky.social at 6pm on 9NEWS/streaming on 9NEWS+.
🚨 Virginia Democrats may succeed in implementing their new 10-1 congressional map targeting 4 Republicans this year after the VA’s top court let the April 21 referendum proceed.
Litigation remains ongoing, but this removes a major hurdle.
Interactive map+data davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...
Really interesting thread--I did not know that FDR was clear that he was increasing the number of Supreme Court Justices so that he could actually enact the New Deal.
Democrats could actually flip the Texas state House in a big enough wave election. The median districts are roughly as red as the state is overall.
The state constitution’s limits on districts crossing county lines creates a much bigger constraint compared with the congressional & state Senate maps
Texas Democrats have their best chance to win statewide races in decades. Gerrymandering likely won’t save the GOP’s national House majority with the way things are going.
But many are underestimating just how much worse things would be for Republicans in a wave election without those gerrymanders
Texas Republicans targeted 5 Democratic seats with their new gerrymander by making many of their own seats bluer, but those seats still remain solidly red.
The GOP didn’t weaken any seats they hold where Trump won by less than 20 points. Dems would need a statewide landslide for the map to backfire
There’s been much talk of Texas’ new 30-8 GOP gerrymander backfiring, but it’s likely nowhere close. The GOP may lose several seats they drew to win yet still be no worse off than before.
Dems would have a good shot at a majority without gerrymandering but might win 14/38 seats at best on this map
Polis should be impeached if he does this. This would be little different than granting clemency to a January 6 insurrectionist
Polis is so far out on a limb here that even the Republican DA of the solidly red county where this election crime took place is calling him out
