In Battle for #Congress, #Virginia #Democrats to Begin Votes to Redraw Maps

State lawmakers are convening to take a vote that would allow #redistricting before next year’s #midterms, though the process would take months.

#law #ElectionLaw #gerrymandering #FireWithFire
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/virginia-redistricting-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The effort began in #Texas at the behest of #Trump & has touched off months of maneuvering in several states. #Missouri & #NorthCarolina have passed new maps to favor #Republicans. Leaders in #California, vowed a #redistricting push of their own to counter the moves in Republican states.

#Virginia, where #Democrats control the legislature, appears poised to join the fray in an attempt to swing as many as 3 of the state’s 11 congressional seats from Republicans to Democrats.

#law #redistricting

#Virginia lawmakers are expected to assemble on Monday to start a process that could redraw the state’s congressional districts for the 2026 #midterm #election.

Virginia is the latest state to plunge into the fight over control of #Congress, where #Republicans hold a tightrope-slim majority & launched a surprise effort this summer to shore up their control by pushing Republican-led states to redraw congressional districts ahead of schedule.

#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering

In Battle for #Congress, #Virginia #Democrats to Begin Votes to Redraw Maps

State lawmakers are convening to take a vote that would allow #redistricting before next year’s #midterms, though the process would take months.

#law #ElectionLaw #gerrymandering #FireWithFire
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/virginia-redistricting-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#SCOTUS is hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the #VotingRightsAct that is designed to protect racial minorities.

Lawyers for #Louisiana & the #Trump admin [the first admin ever to challenge the law] will try to persuade the justices to wipe away the state’s 2nd majority Black congressional district & make it much harder, if not impossible, to take account of #race in #redistricting.

#law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-voting-rights-arguments-updates?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-15-Live+updates

#SCOTUS is hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the #VotingRightsAct that is designed to protect racial minorities.

Lawyers for #Louisiana & the #Trump admin [the first admin ever to challenge the law] will try to persuade the justices to wipe away the state’s 2nd majority Black congressional district & make it much harder, if not impossible, to take account of #race in #redistricting.

#law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-voting-rights-arguments-updates?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-15-Live+updates

CPH Daily Bulletin 10/14/2025

#California ballot design prompts false conspiracy theories that the November election is rigged

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-14/california-ballot-design-unfounded-viral-conspiracy-theories-november-election-rigged

#Prop50 #Redistricting #Gerrymandering

CPH Daily Bulletin 10/14/2025

#California ballot design prompts false conspiracy theories that the November election is rigged

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-14/california-ballot-design-unfounded-viral-conspiracy-theories-november-election-rigged

#Prop50 #Redistricting #Gerrymandering

The Texas #Redistricting Fight Has Been the Testing Ground for the #Trump Administration’s Latest Legal Strategy
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The administration has been testing a strategy of using the courts as leverage to force political outcomes. In #Texas, the state’s leaders and conservative activists have been willing, if not eager, collaborators.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-redistricting-trump-lawsuits-courts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=8-25

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
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"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

Update: Several Texas Democrats who signed documents agreeing to leaving the state's House chambers with a police escort will rip up those documents and return to spend the night on the floor with state Rep. Nicole Collier, @CNN reports.

https://flip.it/26mSoX

#NicoleCollier#Texas#TexasDemocrats#Redistricting#USPolitics

Update: Several Texas Democrats who signed documents agreeing to leaving the state's House chambers with a police escort will rip up those documents and return to spend the night on the floor with state Rep. Nicole Collier, @CNN reports.

https://flip.it/26mSoX

#NicoleCollier#Texas#TexasDemocrats#Redistricting#USPolitics

Texas Democrat Nicole Collier has been locked in the state's House chambers since yesterday because she refused to be escorted from the building by state troopers — a requirement of GOP Speaker Dustin Burrows, who says this is to prevent another walkout by Democratic representatives. “I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts,” said Collier, who has represented District 95 in Fort Worth since 2013. Here's more from @time.

https://flip.it/JoWVGC

#NicoleCollier#Texas#TexasDemocrats#Redistricting#USPolitics

"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
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