Mark Mansour notes that the overt, unabashed gerrymandering proposed by Texas Republicans is designed, by their own admission, to "enhance the political efficacy” of GOP votes.
What this is really about is enhancing the political efficacy of WHITE RURAL voters. As Mansour says, it's "a chilling disenfranchisement of millions of voters—especially Black, Latino, and Asian Americans."
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The Texas Swindle
Trump and Abbott are involved in a conspiracy to cheat Texas voters-it has to be stoppedMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •As Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman show in their important 2024 study White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, no demographic group is so catered to politically and has so much unmerited and outsized clout as white rural voters. They write:
“No group was ever dealt a better electoral hand than rural White Americans."
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •The inflated power of rural White voters confers upon them an unusual ability to force state and national governments to cater to their preferences and grievances. Herein lies the danger: precisely because they wield inflated power, rural Whites’ increasingly tenuous commitments to democratic norms and traditions are magnified across the U.S. political system in many of the same ways their preferences have been for two centuries” (p. 63).
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Partisan gerrymandering is legal because the US Supreme Court declared in 2019 that it is too difficult for federal judges to ensure that congressional districts are fairly drawn. (A demonstrably false claim.)"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
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The battle for 2026 is joined.
Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Having washed its hands of voter suppression like a modern-day Pontius Pilate, the Supreme Court relinquished control of congressional districting to a patchwork of inconsistent, flawed, and (sometimes) corrupt state legislatures. Chaos ensued."
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •“Trump knows he can’t win the upcoming mid-term elections, so he is trying to rig them. And the way he is trying to do it is to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as we know it. He is trying, for example to try and dismantle Hispanic and African-American opportunity districts."
~ Rep. Greg Casar quoted by John Nicholls
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The NationWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Billy Begala explains how the Republican gerrymandering proposal wants to "carve up Texas like a Christmas ham," disenfranchising Black and Hispanic voters and privileging rural white ones.
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Republicans Are Planning to Carve Up Texas Like a Christmas Ham. We Should All Be Pissed.
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