Ossum speech:

"Texas State Rep. #AnnJohnson clapped back at #GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.

“If you knew you could win this next election, you wouldn’t be taking this effort to try to steal five seats from elected officials that members of color elected to represent them in Washington D.C.”

https://youtube.com/shorts/GCcddd7Eqow

@democracydocket
@democratsabroad
@indivisibleteam

Ossum speech:

"Texas State Rep. #AnnJohnson clapped back at #GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote.

“If you knew you could win this next election, you wouldn’t be taking this effort to try to steal five seats from elected officials that members of color elected to represent them in Washington D.C.”

https://youtube.com/shorts/GCcddd7Eqow

@democracydocket
@democratsabroad
@indivisibleteam

"It’s an especially striking counterpoint to President Biden, who credited Black women with his 2020 victory and made a point of breaking the glass ceiling for them during his presidency with the appointments of people like Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and Cook to the Federal Reserve Board."

#Trump#Republicans#Texas#Misssissippi#WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #redistricting #racism #slavery
/14

"On the road to authoritarianism, [what Texas Republicans are doing] is a whole factory of red flags.

It lays bare the political power grab driving the Trump administration’s expansion of the police power. Although administration officials claim to be combating crime, they are setting up a one-state political system that will answer only to MAGA."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump#WashingtonDC #fascism #military#Texas #redistricting #gerrymandering
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-19-2025

I cannot fucking WAIT to see Isaiah Martin in Congress. This is the candidate for TX-18 that the #Texas fascists threw in jail for being Black and telling them the truth about #gerrymandering.

WE have to fight for elections and WE have to show up for candidates like this. WE need to pull up for them as they pull up for us.

Then, and only then, can we have nice things. HE stepped up. WE have to join him. ✊🏼

I cannot fucking WAIT to see Isaiah Martin in Congress. This is the candidate for TX-18 that the #Texas fascists threw in jail for being Black and telling them the truth about #gerrymandering.

WE have to fight for elections and WE have to show up for candidates like this. WE need to pull up for them as they pull up for us.

Then, and only then, can we have nice things. HE stepped up. WE have to join him. ✊🏼

"This is an effort to change the very basic nature of American democracy. This is the institution of American authoritarianism, and it is happening right here in front of us. And if we don’t call it that, and if we don’t recognize that all of these things are tied together, we are going to be powerless to stop it."

~ David Daley

#Trump#Republicans#VoterSupression #redistricting#MailInBallots #gerrymandering #elections
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https://newrepublic.com/article/199237/trump-accidentally-lets-slip-dark-truth-plot-rig-midterms

"If Democratic leaders were so unelectable, the Republicans would not go to such lengths to rig district voting maps and keep Democratic voters from the polls. Indeed, while voter fraud is vanishingly rare, the Republicans are using the specter of it to engage in election fraud: manipulating the mechanics of an election to favor one side over another.

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump#Republicans#VoterSupression #redistricting#MailInBallots #gerrymandering
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-18-2025

“At bottom, Trump’s rant clearly signals his intent to use presidential power in every conceivable way he can to swing the midterm elections against Democrats.”

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump#Republicans#VoterSupression #redistricting#MailInBallots #gerrymandering #elections
/2

“Trump’s claims are so far from anything even remotely legal or constitutional that I doubt even the corrupted federal judiciary will have much truck with it.”

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump#Republicans#VoterSupression #redistricting#MailInBallots #gerrymandering #elections
/1

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-elections-and-the-oppositions-strategic-depth

Political commentator and cartoonist Kevin Necessary comments on Trump's impending meeting with Putin in "Russia."

#Trump #Putin #PutinsPoodle #Russia #Ukraine #gerrymandering#Republicans
/1

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/autocratic-summit-in-alaska

Political commentator and cartoonist Kevin Necessary comments on Trump's impending meeting with Putin in "Russia."

#Trump #Putin #PutinsPoodle #Russia #Ukraine #gerrymandering#Republicans
/1

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/autocratic-summit-in-alaska

If anyone is left to write history after what we've going through now, I think historians of the future should assign the Roberts Supreme Court a singular and singularly maleficent role in the planned destruction of US democracy, a destruction willed by economic elites acting in collusion with reactionary right-wing Christians.

#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
/5

As a trained theologian whose master's and doctoral degrees are from a Catholic theological program and who spent much of his teaching career working in Catholic institutions, I am especially outraged that this destruction of democracy has been undertaken by a right-wing Catholic cabal on the court with close ties to the theocratic Opus Dei cult.

#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
/6

As a body, the US Catholic bishops worked feverishly to stack the court with the right-wing Catholic cabal now controlling it, and are very happy with what they have gotten, especially after Roe v. Wade was knocked down. I refuse to take anything seriously that almost any Catholic bishop in the US says now about democracy or human rights.

#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
/9

There are, as I know well, strong currents of all of that in the Catholic church and courageous people moved by their Catholic faith to defend human rights and democracy.

But those people have not had the upper hand in US Catholicism under the current bishops, many of them appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
/8

How can any thinking and informed Catholic now do anything but laugh when Catholic theologians and pastoral leaders talk about how Catholic teaching upholds human rights, is positively disposed to democracy, respects religious freedom, advocates for the poor as the rich run roughshod over them?

#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
/7

As a trained theologian whose master's and doctoral degrees are from a Catholic theological program and who spent much of his teaching career working in Catholic institutions, I am especially outraged that this destruction of democracy has been undertaken by a right-wing Catholic cabal on the court with close ties to the theocratic Opus Dei cult.

#SupremeCourt #democracy#VotingRights#CivilRights#JohnRoberts#Texas #gerrymandering#EconomicElites
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