What a lot of people don’t seem to realize is that we are already in a sort of “cold” civil war that is only likely to get worse, with increasing violence similar to “The Troubles” likely. While I think that Gerrymandering in general should be considered unconstitutional, as it disenfranchises voters, when red states do it and blue states don’t the ultimate result is the disenfranchisement of everyone in the blue states. If California fights back, it could completely cancel out any gains from Texas redistricting, or even potentially add several more democratic seats. I hate to see any state playing these games, but in this instance the failure of blue states to respond in kind will result in one-party rule with no way back.
Indiana is one of the four states (IN, TN, TX, and OR) that require a 2/3rds majority to conduct business. But, sadly, the Indiana House is is 70/30 Republican and the Senate is 40/10. Even if all the Democratic legislators copied Texas and left the state, there would still be enough in both the House and Senate to pass new maps.
Meanwhile, the do nothing Democrats let them do it.
Yes, the well-known Democratic stronghold of…Indiana.
I’m talking about California, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois. They just watch what’s coming in Texas as they plan to arrest elected politicians and ponder plans to counter act it.
Republicans are going to do this. They WILL do it. Democrats are all talk.
CA is already moving forward with theirs. IL will probably be able to get one or two more seats (it’s already heavily gerrymandered). NY will likely do so as well, but can’t change the maps in time for the 2026 midterms Maryland is also similarly gerrymandered like IL - maybe one more seat there.
Maryland is currently gerrymandered in favor of the Republicans. At least one if not two seats there.
IL could get rid of every Republican seat by making every district contain a little bit of Chicago
I will believe it when I see it.
Jesus Christ man
“Why aren’t Democrats fighting back?”
“They are”
“I don’t believe it”
It’s all talk, dude. Are you really that naive? When they fuck it up again, I’ll be back here to say I told you so. If I’m wrong, I’ll eat my hat.
Every time the Dems have any sort of advantage they do nothing and blame the Republicans for it. In this situation, they will fail to make changes while the republicans are successful, and again they will blame the Republicans for their lack of tenacity.
Trump pushed through his bill when the majority of people didn’t want it. What Democrat has ever even attempted a bill for universal healthcare?
It bears noting that the MA congressional delegation is already all Democrats, they can’t gerrymander an extra seat when they already have them all.
True. That’s my mistake.
Even Washington could potentially pick up an extra Democrat district. Every single one counts.
Washington has a bipartisan redistricting commission by state constitutional amendment. They would need the cooperation of Republicans to reconvene the bipartisan redistricting commission, then the cooperation of Republicans to gerrymander away eastern Washington (the areas they come from). It won’t happen. They may be able to make a purple district more safe.
The bipartisan commission does give a disproportionate voice to Republicans relative to actual apportionment in the state legislature by giving each of the top two parties two seats (with a nonvoting chair), but it’s a direct result of the unambiguous wording of the amendment. There would need to be another amendment to update that commission’s composition.
I agree, but they aren’t doing that.
Certainly not with Bob Ferguson in charge they’re not.
Jill Stein should stop them!
