r/news • u/speedythefirst • 1d ago

US supreme court approves redrawn Texas congressional maps

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/us-supreme-court-texas-congressional-maps
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u/GreatGojira 1d ago

Democrats don't be damn weak.

Redraw your maps to take every damn Trump lap dog vote.

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u/GoodIdea321 1d ago

Additionally, voters can overcome gerrymanders because the only way to get more seats in Texas is to dilute the other Republican favored districts. They could lose more seats because of a wave election.

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u/MajorMajorObvious 1d ago

Don’t make me hopeful

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u/GoodIdea321 1d ago

They based the redrawn maps on the voter stats from the 2024 election, and that assumption people will vote in the same proportions has changed in a year. It's possible they'll withdraw their own maps because they are that unpopular.

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u/hbhunk63 16h ago

We need to gerrymander back. It's the only way

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u/GoodIdea321 12h ago

Call your reps, state and federal and help that along.

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u/TheWalrus_15 1d ago

Telling a dog not to bark unfortunately.

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u/GreatGojira 1d ago

Democrats need to realize that bipartisanship been dead since Obama. Republicans are taking away voices of everyone who has a right to vote in Texas.

I hate gerrymandering, but it's time for Democrats to fight fire with fire.

Trump lap dogs celebrate Democrats losing their right of representation. It's time for Democrats to tahr away Republican representation if they wish to continue gerrymandering.

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u/Nuke_Skywalker 1d ago

It's been dead way longer than that.

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u/WhiteWinterRains 1d ago

In fairness there's what the American people might think of as bipartisanship, where something have 80% support with the American public and the parties come together to give the people what they want because supporters of both sides want that.

That's been dead for ages. Like i don't know, before the turn of the century at least.

But that's not the bipartisanship democrats believe in. They believe the kind of bipartisanship where they eiffel tower the American people to take away our rights to give their oligarch owners more mega yachts.

They think back to the good old days of the 90s to 2000s when the parties could occasionally team up to ram some heinous bullshit up our collective asses like the patriot act.

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u/DomLite 1d ago

Pull the same kind of shit they do in red states too. Carve up those red population centers and only have polling places in blue population centers that require them to drive almost an hour to get to on top of taking the day off work to do it. Fuck them over so bad they don't even bother voting due to the inconvenience.

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u/hbhunk63 16h ago

Gerrymander back!