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#3551
13 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Districts should have to be quadrilaterals with an exception granted for state boundaries.  
 

Say no to squiggly lines. 

one thing is for sure, they shouldn't be drawn by partisans. like a lot of things in this country, the lines should be drawn by a fair and independent body whose only goal is equitable distribution of voters per seat. we certainly be where are today if such a thing had happened before now

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#3552

Big City Texas is being disenfranchised by Rural Texas.

DFW: 2-3 voices vs. 8-9

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Houston: 2-3 vs. 7-8

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#3553

Done in isolation this could backfire in a big way during a blue wave year. But next they'll purge a shitload of blue voters and reduce voting machines and locations in blue areas to prevent that from happening.

#3555
18 minutes ago, mchookem said:

jfc. this is so bad. wow.

I think they did this as a sick joke, but downtown Austin and the Capitol Complex are included in TX-10, the same district that will include College Station.

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#3556
13 minutes ago, mchookem said:

jfc. this is so bad. wow.

Kind of makes me think of how the Founding Fathers would respond to this.  Sounds a bit like what Brisket suggested a while back, the way of the gun seems to be the only solution since the way of peace, voting and compromise is being eliminated.  

#3558
2 hours ago, bolverk said:

 

Northern Travis and southern Williamson counties, this is who your future Congress critters will actually represent. Only the core of Austin will really have its voice heard. Everyone else in the area will be ignored.

One voice against five others. The extreme nature of this gerrymander truly is taxation without representation.

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I guess if there's a bright side for me, I'll no longer be represented by the corpse of John Carter. Let me see who represents TX17....Ah, shit. 

#3559
2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I guess if there's a bright side for me, I'll no longer be represented by the corpse of John Carter. Let me see who represents TX17....Ah, shit. 

Cedar Park/Leander won't even be an afterthought for dear ol' Pete.

#3560
2 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Cedar Park/Leander won't even be an afterthought for dear ol' Pete.

Looking at it again, I'll have to wait and see a more granular map. I'm in that area north of 1431 and East of 734 (Parmer/Ronald Reagan). I'm in the Georgetown ETJ, and it's going to depend on what road forms that eastern boundary. I might still be in 31 by a matter of feet. 

#3561
3 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Looking at it again, I'll have to wait and see a more granular map. I'm in that area north of 1431 and East of 734 (Parmer/Ronald Reagan). I'm in the Georgetown ETJ, and it's going to depend on what road forms that eastern boundary. I might still be in 31 by a matter of feet. 

 

It's an interactive map, so you can zoom in to find your place: https://dvr.capitol.texas.gov/Congress/0/PLANC2308

#3565
11 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I'm slowly becoming a huge 2nd amendment fan.   

 

They'll have drones.

#3566
8 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Those maps are pretty insane, holy shit I haven't really looked at this

Yeah, and I'd wager 95% of adults in Texas will have no idea that it changed.

#3567
5 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Those maps are pretty insane, holy shit I haven't really looked at this

 

Gerrymandering is just another form of disenfranchising voters. It's a one-two punch.

I'm sure you probably know a bunch of folks who don't bother to vote because they think know their votes won't matter. And they're right if they live in a part of a city that's appended to a largely rural district. So, people get tired and turned off from voting and having to wait in long lines, while the rural folks can just pop in and vote in a matter of a couple of minutes.

All of this then affects statewide and national elections, and that's partially why Texas has such a shitty voter turnout rate that's kept the state red the last 30 years.

#3568
13 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

id be curious to see the R/D splits. they're assuming all R's will stay R, or factoring in losing a certain % ?

doubtful those numbers would ever be public 

Word is they are assuming 2024 voting patterns to get to a +5 R pickup.

 

High risk, high reward strategy for the Republicans here. Would pick up 5ish seats under 2026 conditions, but that requires Republicans winning nearly 55% statewide. Under 2018 conditions, they could break even or lose a couple seats. A lot of this comes down to how Latinos vote in 26 and beyond [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Edit: He meant 5ish seats in 2024, not 2026.

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#3569
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A lot of this comes down to how Latinos vote in 26 and beyond

that's been true for a couple decades. hopefully what is happening is eye opening to enough people

#3570
2 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

that's been true for a couple decades. hopefully what is happening is eye opening to enough people

Nah.  We will see some ads about trans people or caravans or whatever the scary story is of the day and they will vote Republican like they have been trending and the state will stay Red and pick up 5 Red seats in congress.  If the dems had stones they would tell TX to go for it and gerrymander the shit out of CA and NY and gain dozens of seats.  One side is at war and the other is sitting back saying there is no way they would go to war with us.  

#3571

Only good news from this is that I get to send Chip Roy an e-mail to say 'arrivederci you carpetbagging cocksucker.'  Then I get to welcome my new MAGA overlord, Tony Gonzalez.

#3572
1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

that's been true for a couple decades. hopefully what is happening is eye opening to enough people

TikTok is still on and Trump says things to foreign leaders that make people go

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Just last week the NYT interviewed Latinos that voted for Trump to see where they are now.

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"I voted for Trump because he’s powerful. He is arrogant, but he is powerful. He says, “I am going to do this. I am going to do this. I am going to do this.” And I feel like he is going to follow through." -Estaban, 22, Texas

 

#3573

I would really like to see the numbers on how the new districts looked based on the 2018 and 2022 midterms. Presidential election turnouts are clearly a different animal.

#3574

With the population growth of Tx, covid, and border blowup anything prior to 22 is meaningless. The valley shifting right bigly dooms this state and there’s zero reason for me to believe that momentum is slowing down heading into midterms. 

#3576
4 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

I think the proposal gives the nothern Hays congressional district more of Texas’ coastline than any other district.

Home insurance companies will find a way to require wind/storm services insurance for it. 

#3578
11 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Home insurance companies will find a way to require wind/storm services insurance for it. 

If they are successful, expect every property in the state to have a congressional district that includes coastline.

#3579
10 minutes ago, bolverk said:

A lot of big talk in this OpEd appearing in today's NYTimes about Texas Dems being fed up with this redistricting push and ready to fight. We'll see.

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get out the vote is the best way to fight back 

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#3580

I figured I would stay in District 10 because McCaul’s house looks down on my backyard, but it is just insane how it carves up just a sliver of Travis and then goes over and grabs rural East Texas. 

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#3581
13 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

I figured I would stay in District 10 because McCaul’s house looks down on my backyard


Classic Surly humble brag. Well done.

 

#3582
54 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

 

"I voted for Trump because he’s powerful. He is arrogant, but he is powerful. He says, “I am going to do this. I am going to do this. I am going to do this.” And I feel like he is going to follow through." -Estaban, 22, Texas

 


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#3583
6 minutes ago, Covri said:


Classic Surly humble brag. Well done.

 

I thought “looks down” conveyed the opposite. But, I’ll take it. 

#3584
7 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

I thought “looks down” conveyed the opposite. But, I’ll take it. 

Well he don't look down on poor people.  

#3585
47 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

get out the vote is the best way to fight back 

If need be, Ice's 10,000 new agents will mitigate that effort.  We've been fully fucked since last November.

 

 

 

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#3586

Senator Warnock reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. What’s most amazing about this is that it wasn’t that long ago that voting rights bills were approved almost unanimously. WTH happened to us?

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/sen-raphael-warnock-reintroduces-john-lewis-voting-rights-advancement-act/85-52089c4f-9226-47c6-8d7b-74518ba01d90

Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia unveiled the measure, titled the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, with the backing of Democratic leaders. The bill stands little chance of passage in the Republican-led Congress, but it provides the clearest articulation of Democrats' agenda on voting rights and election reform.

The legislation would reestablish and expand the requirement that states and localities with a history of discrimination get federal approval before changing their voting laws. It would also require states to allow same-day voter registration, prevent voters from being purged from voter rolls if they miss elections and allow people who may have been disenfranchised at the ballot box to seek a legal remedy in the courts.

“Democracy is the very house in which we live. It is the framework in which we get to fight for the things that we care about,” Warnock said. “These last seven months have reminded us that we ought not take any of it for granted. We are literally in a fight for the life of the republic.”

Warnock was joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, as well as Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Alex Padilla of California. The senators were flanked by dozens of activists, including voting rights advocates, environmental campaigners, faith leaders and union organizers.

The reintroduction comes at a precarious moment for the Voting Rights Act. The enforcement mechanisms of the law have been removed or hampered by two decades of court rulings and lapsed congressional reauthorizations. And an unusual push by Republicans in several states to redistrict congressional maps five years ahead of schedule has also raised questions about the effectiveness of the law in protecting voters

#3588

Because The U.S. Constitution doesn't explicitly forbid gerrymandering for partisan advantage, maybe the time has come for such an amendment to be passed.

#3591
1 hour ago, Satchel said:

Because The U.S. Constitution doesn't explicitly forbid gerrymandering for partisan advantage, maybe the time has come for such an amendment to be passed.

The Constitution doesn't address political parties

#3593

I'd lose Jasmie Crockett and get...?

Mark Veasey currently has 33rd, which I'd get shunted into, but his current gerrymandered district looks like it's getting split all kinds of crazy.  So who knows who'd wind up running/winning 33rd.

These gqp bastards.  

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#3594
3 hours ago, CTC2 said:

I figured I would stay in District 10 because McCaul’s house looks down on my backyard, but it is just insane how it carves up just a sliver of Travis and then goes over and grabs rural East Texas. 

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as a west lake hills resident, i am in a different district than people in barton hills and zilker directly across mopac, but in the same district as people in crockett and corrigan?

fucking clowns man.

#3596

TX-23

490 miles between these two points.

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Shavano Park City Hall

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#3597
33 minutes ago, bolverk said:

TX-11: Same same.

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I found out about Notrees for the first time two months ago, on my way to Hobbs, NM from Odessa. 

But seriously, this is some bullshit.

#3598

TX-13

The distance between these two points is exactly 400 miles.

Texline

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Denton

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#3600
6 hours ago, CTC2 said:

I figured I would stay in District 10 because McCaul’s house looks down on my backyard, but it is just insane how it carves up just a sliver of Travis and then goes over and grabs rural East Texas. 

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Circle C and Victoria in the same district?  Seems legit.

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