Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
#Trump says #FBI ‘may have to’ help bring #Texas#Democrats back to state

After Republican Sen John Cornyn of Texas called on the FBI to help locate & #arrest Democrats who left the state to block a vote on a new congressional map, Trump said, “They may have to.”

“A lot of people have demanded they come back. You can’t just sit it out. You have to go back, you have to fight it out,” said Trump.

#law#AbuseOfPower #gerrymandering #redistricting #democracy #elections
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-8-5-2025#00000198-7c2b-dc4c-adfc-fc3f02bc0000
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
#Legal experts & even #Republican state AG #KenPaxton say it would be difficult to enforce consequences against the Democratic lawmakers.

#Texas House rules allow for fines of $500 every day the #Democrats are absent. The #House also issued civil warrants for the missing lawmakers to be arrested & returned to the House.

#Trump#FBI #law#AbuseOfPower #gerrymandering #redistricting #democracy #rigged #elections
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#Texas Gov. #GregAbbott (R) is threatening to try to remove Democratic lawmakers from office for fleeing the state & claiming they could be charged with #crimes, escalating tensions overnight in a showdown over redrawing congressional lines ahead of the #MidtermElections.
Most of the #Democrats in the TX state #House exited the state Sunday…to prevent #Republicans from overhauling the state’s map to give themselves 5 more safe #GOP seats.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
#Texas#Democrats have twice deployed the same tactic to combat #legislation in the 22 years since #Republicans have controlled all of state government, but their efforts ultimately failed. This time, Democrats plan to stay away for 2 weeks to run out the clock on a special legislative session called by Gov. #GregAbbott (R) to draw a map that would give Republicans 5 more #House seats.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump #rigged#Congress #midterms #elections
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#Update:

#GregAbbott threatens to try to expel #Democrats who left #Texas
The Texas state #House is set to reconvene at 3PM CT Monday. Democrats have left the state to try to stop #Republicans from moving ahead with enacting a new congressional map that would give the #GOP 5 more safe seats in the #US#Congress.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-redistricting-maps-abbott-trump/
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#Update:

#GregAbbott threatens to try to expel #Democrats who left #Texas
The Texas state #House is set to reconvene at 3PM CT Monday. Democrats have left the state to try to stop #Republicans from moving ahead with enacting a new congressional map that would give the #GOP 5 more safe seats in the #US#Congress.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-redistricting-maps-abbott-trump/
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#Texas Gov. #GregAbbott (R) is threatening to try to remove Democratic lawmakers from office for fleeing the state & claiming they could be charged with #crimes, escalating tensions overnight in a showdown over redrawing congressional lines ahead of the #MidtermElections.
Most of the #Democrats in the TX state #House exited the state Sunday…to prevent #Republicans from overhauling the state’s map to give themselves 5 more safe #GOP seats.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

The #Texas#House can conduct business only when two-thirds of its 150 members are present. At least 51 of the chamber’s 62 #Democrats will need to boycott the session to prevent #Republicans from acting on the new map. The lawmakers could return a couple of days before the special session ends Aug. 19 & use other stall tactics, but any success could be short-lived as #GregAbbott can immediately call another 30-day session.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump #rigged#Congress #midterms #elections
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#Update:

#GregAbbott threatens to try to expel #Democrats who left #Texas
The Texas state #House is set to reconvene at 3PM CT Monday. Democrats have left the state to try to stop #Republicans from moving ahead with enacting a new congressional map that would give the #GOP 5 more safe seats in the #US#Congress.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/04/texas-democrats-redistricting-maps-abbott-trump/
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
#Texas#Democrats have twice deployed the same tactic to combat #legislation in the 22 years since #Republicans have controlled all of state government, but their efforts ultimately failed. This time, Democrats plan to stay away for 2 weeks to run out the clock on a special legislative session called by Gov. #GregAbbott (R) to draw a map that would give Republicans 5 more #House seats.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump #rigged#Congress #midterms #elections
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

The #Texas#House can conduct business only when two-thirds of its 150 members are present. At least 51 of the chamber’s 62 #Democrats will need to boycott the session to prevent #Republicans from acting on the new map. The lawmakers could return a couple of days before the special session ends Aug. 19 & use other stall tactics, but any success could be short-lived as #GregAbbott can immediately call another 30-day session.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump #rigged#Congress #midterms #elections
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
#Texas#Democrats have twice deployed the same tactic to combat #legislation in the 22 years since #Republicans have controlled all of state government, but their efforts ultimately failed. This time, Democrats plan to stay away for 2 weeks to run out the clock on a special legislative session called by Gov. #GregAbbott (R) to draw a map that would give Republicans 5 more #House seats.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump #rigged#Congress #midterms #elections
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
#Update

#Texas#Democrats to flee state, blocking plan to pad GOP’s control of #Congress
By leaving, Democratic state legislators can stall a #Republican plan that would give the #GOP 5 more seats to protect their narrow #House majority.

#law #gerrymandering#Trump #rigged #midterms #elections
https://apnews.com/article/texas-democrats-leave-state-congressional-map-vote-b8b96080dfae00111664bbfb72fc304b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-03-Breaking+News
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago
#Democrats in the #Texas legislature said they were fleeing the state Sunday to block a #redistricting plan backed by #Trump aimed at preserving the #GOP’s slim #House majority, escalating tensions as a broader fight over congressional district lines unfolds throughout the country ahead of the 2026 #midterms.

#law #gerrymandering #rigged#Congress #elections
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
#Texas#Republicans Unveil #Gerrymandered House Map to Please #Trump

The Republican-dominated Legislature in Texas on Wednesday unveiled an aggressively redrawn map for the state’s US #House districts, proposing to carve up 5 Democratic seats so that Republicans would now be likely to win them in 2026 fulfilling Trump’s central demand of adding 5 Republican seats in #Congress, which could help the party keep control of the House after the 2026 #midterms.

#law #elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/texas-republican-redistricting.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms
@skykiss@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Does convicted child sex trafficker Maxwell get a deal from DoJ if she
implicates Trump? Not a chance in hell.

Does Maxwell get a deal from DoJ if she exonerates Trump? Probably.

She knows both things very well. She's a criminal & a liar given incentive by DoJ to lie to benefit herself.

Release the files. All versions, all deletions, all modifications of the files.

#epstein#EpsteinFiles#Congress#Senate#House#usa #press #media #news
skykiss ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms
@skykiss@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Does convicted child sex trafficker Maxwell get a deal from DoJ if she
implicates Trump? Not a chance in hell.

Does Maxwell get a deal from DoJ if she exonerates Trump? Probably.

She knows both things very well. She's a criminal & a liar given incentive by DoJ to lie to benefit herself.

Release the files. All versions, all deletions, all modifications of the files.

#epstein#EpsteinFiles#Congress#Senate#House#usa #press #media #news
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Ridiculous

#MikeJohnson Retreats on Demand for #JeffreyEpstein Disclosures, Saying #Trump Needs ‘Space’

The #Republican speaker of the #House had said last week that the government should release “everything” in the #Epstein files, in a rare break with Trump that predictably turned out to be short-lived.

#law #rapist47#RapistInChief#CoverUp
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/mike-johnson-epstein-files-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Ridiculous

#MikeJohnson Retreats on Demand for #JeffreyEpstein Disclosures, Saying #Trump Needs ‘Space’

The #Republican speaker of the #House had said last week that the government should release “everything” in the #Epstein files, in a rare break with Trump that predictably turned out to be short-lived.

#law #rapist47#RapistInChief#CoverUp
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/mike-johnson-epstein-files-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

But in the years that followed, the strength of local #PublicTelevision & #PublicRadio stations in conservative states was often what saved the #federal #funding.

In 1995, #NewtGingrich, then the #House speaker, made one of the most aggressive moves since #Nixon to “zero out” federal support for #PublicMedia before he found it politically untenable.

#Trump#Republicans#PublicBroadcasting #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy