2025/2026 Elections Congressional & State

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No way Jose!

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Boy that was quick!

[Caribbean Hen]

Boy that was quick!

It’s funny how the blue around Orlando is a perfect map for the island of Puerto Rico

You won’t find many Puerto Ricans without a vacation home in central Florida and it’s no coincidence that they take these vacations in November.

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Latest update in the 2026 districting wars. The 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais is a game changer.

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Latest update in the 2026 districting wars. The 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais is a game changer.

Just a few days ago MAQA yahoos were bellyaching about New England having little to no Republican representatives in Congress now they're celebrating this.

They are what they profess to hate.

[Caribbean Hen]

Latest update in the 2026 districting wars. The 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais is a game changer.

Just a few days ago MAQA yahoos were bellyaching about New England having little to no Republican representatives in Congress now they're celebrating this.

They are what they profess to hate.

Hey lame brain

Why can’t you just admit that gerrymandering is not good period

JFC I’ve become the centrist on here and you have become a sick little man

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Good.

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"Why can’t you just admit that gerrymandering is not good period?"

[kalm]

"Why can’t you just admit that gerrymandering is not good period?"

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Dallas Republicans Warned That Texas Was Turning Blue. Then They Wrecked an Election.

For this city’s Republican Party, the 2026 primaries were supposed to set a national example. Led by Col. Allen West, the party wanted to run the election as purely as it could: no electronic voting machines. A full hand count.
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The result was a fiasco. Per one estimate, more than 12,000 primary voters out of a total of around 120,000 had to be redirected, per Votebeat and the Texas Tribune, which have covered the saga in detail. A judge briefly extended voting hours. Attorney General Ken Paxton, himself on the primary ballot, used his office to ask the Texas Supreme Court to invalidate votes cast in extended voting. The court agreed.
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The March 3 primary was a disaster.

One local election commissioner described “bedlam,” with thousands of people appearing at the wrong polling site. The county Democratic Party sued to extend voting hours; a district judge agreed to push voting until 9 PM. Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was on the primary ballot in his fight to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), appealed, asking the Texas Supreme Court to negate the extended voting hours. Around 8:30 PM, the Supreme Court agreed, ordering that “votes cast by voters who were not in line to vote at 7pm should be separated.”
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Paul Adams, the Dallas County elections administrator, remarked in court last month that the election had taught everyone a lesson: “we do not want any last-minute changes.”

But the first election held under the SAVE Act would run so smoothly if it passes ...

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Murdoch Paper Flames Trump’s ‘Victory Lap’ Amid Grim Polling

In the opinion piece published on Wednesday, the Journal’s editorial board noted that while “the media scorekeepers have declared that President Trump remains the king of the Republican Party,” the more pertinent question is whether “his kingdom will shrink after November.”
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The Journal went on to argue that Tuesday’s results are not as momentous as they may appear, and that despite the “MAGA machine” going all-in, there was little to show for it.
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The editorial also touched on Michigan, where Democrats managed to hold on to their majority, and Iowa, which Vice President JD Vance visited this week and where it warned that “the tariff damage to the farm economy could cost the GOP two House seats and maybe the governorship.”
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Most polls show that Democrats have the edge six months out from the election, with an April ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll showing Democrats with a 5-point lead over Republicans, up from 2 points in February.

The president’s own polling is similarly dire, with the same April poll indicating that his approval rating has reached a new low of 37 percent, down from 39 percent in February. His disapproval rating had risen slightly, reaching a new high of 62 percent.

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Republicans can’t conceal the moral ugliness of what they’ve done in Tennessee

The dilution of Black political power that will result from splitting the 9th District into three parts won’t be an unfortunate, accidental consequence but the very point of that split. The new map is the latest example in what is a long American tradition of power brokers in the white establishment using maps, policies and courts to minimize the political power of Black communities and then claiming with a straight face that neither they nor their actions are racist.

But splitting this Southern state’s Black district into three is racial redlining dressed up as governance. It is the latest iteration of Jim Crow. We might call it in this case James Crow, Esq.

Though activists in my city have rightly been chanting “Hands off Memphis!,” many Americans remain dangerously naive about how sophisticated modern segregationist politics have become. The old segregationists often shouted their racism openly. But as the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater infamously explained in 1981, the party had already become expert in appealing to racists and promoting racist policies without using explicitly racist language. Today’s segregationist politics arrive wrapped in constitutional arguments, data analysis, partisan framing and carefully constructed talking points designed to make injustice appear acceptable.

But no amount of legal sophistication can conceal the moral ugliness of disenfranchisement. History is remarkably consistent on this point.

Every generation of racialized oppression eventually collides with the truth. Pharaoh is eventually confronted by Moses. Bull Connor is eventually confronted by the children of Birmingham. George Wallace is eventually forced to confront the evil he helped unleash on the world. Every attempt to permanently suppress the democratic aspirations of marginalized people eventually runs into the reality that injustice contains the seeds of its own destruction.

That does not mean justice arrives quickly or that progress is inevitable. And it certainly does not mean we can afford political laziness or civic disengagement.

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Republicans can’t conceal the moral ugliness of what they’ve done in Tennessee

The dilution of Black political power that will result from splitting the 9th District into three parts won’t be an unfortunate, accidental consequence but the very point of that split. The new map is the latest example in what is a long American tradition of power brokers in the white establishment using maps, policies and courts to minimize the political power of Black communities and then claiming with a straight face that neither they nor their actions are racist.

But splitting this Southern state’s Black district into three is racial redlining dressed up as governance. It is the latest iteration of Jim Crow. We might call it in this case James Crow, Esq.

Though activists in my city have rightly been chanting “Hands off Memphis!,” many Americans remain dangerously naive about how sophisticated modern segregationist politics have become. The old segregationists often shouted their racism openly. But as the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater infamously explained in 1981, the party had already become expert in appealing to racists and promoting racist policies without using explicitly racist language. Today’s segregationist politics arrive wrapped in constitutional arguments, data analysis, partisan framing and carefully constructed talking points designed to make injustice appear acceptable.

But no amount of legal sophistication can conceal the moral ugliness of disenfranchisement. History is remarkably consistent on this point.

Every generation of racialized oppression eventually collides with the truth. Pharaoh is eventually confronted by Moses. Bull Connor is eventually confronted by the children of Birmingham. George Wallace is eventually forced to confront the evil he helped unleash on the world. Every attempt to permanently suppress the democratic aspirations of marginalized people eventually runs into the reality that injustice contains the seeds of its own destruction.

That does not mean justice arrives quickly or that progress is inevitable. And it certainly does not mean we can afford political laziness or civic disengagement.

Lawl what a bunch of leftist drivel from MSDNC. If you capitalize the ‘B’ in black, but don’t for the ‘W’ is white, that tells you right there you are a leftist identity politics race hustler.

Drawing up maps BASED ON RACE, which is precisely what was not only allowed to happen, but forced to happen by the VRA, prior to LA vs Callais, is the very definition of racism. The way to stop discriminating based on race, is to stop discriminating based on race.

In addition, for anyone paying attention to the actual candidates in TN, an old white male democrat in that seat is likely to be replaced by a black female republican. So how is that rACisT?

[BDKJMU]

BOOM!

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Republicans can’t conceal the moral ugliness of what they’ve done in Tennessee

Lawl what a bunch of leftist drivel from MSDNC. If you capitalize the ‘B’ in black, but don’t for the ‘W’ is white, that tells you right there you are a leftist identity politics race hustler.

Drawing up maps BASED ON RACE, which is precisely what was not only allowed to happen, but forced to happen by the VRA, prior to LA vs Callais, is the very definition of racism. The way to stop discriminating based on race, is to stop discriminating based on race.

In addition, for anyone paying attention to the actual candidates in TN, an old white male democrat in that seat is likely to be replaced by a black female republican. So how is that rACisT?

How did tennesseestan Republicans draw the maps without using race. They specifically stated during the discussion of the bill that the maps were drawn to give Republicans an advantage and that they were drawn only using census data. Voting/party membership is not part of census data. How could they draw the map to give Republicans an advantage? Maybe using race as a proxy for voting/party membership?

Let's talk about the MAQA yahoos who bitched and moaned about the lack of Republican representation in New England based on voting patterns. Are they going to speak up against what Tennessee is doing or are they complete and utter partisan hypocrites.

[kalm]

BOOM!

Boom if you want less democracy and freedoms. Congrats.

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NAACP Sues Tennessee Over Redistricting That Wiped Out State’s Only Majority-Black District

In the 15-page complaint, the NAACP argued that Tennessee had engaged in an “unlawful late-decade congressional redistricting in violation of clear and unambiguous Tennessee statutory law and the mandates of the Tennessee Constitution,” specifically citing a state statute that establishes that the legislature “shall establish the composition of districts for the election of members of the house of representatives in congress after each enumeration and apportionment of representation by the congress of the United States,” and that “[t]he districts may not be changed between apportionments.”

Since the Tennessee General Assembly had “established the composition of districts” for congressional districts after the 2020 U.S. Census as usual, the complaint continued, and “May 2026 is a time between apportionments,” the redistricting was unlawful.

How will the courts interpret the governor’s special-session proclamation (to review the map and ensure it remains fair, legal, and defensible)?

• Narrow reading: NAACP could plausibly win an injunction and invalidate the new map.
• Broad reading: the repeal likely stands, and the map probably survives.

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Lawl what a bunch of leftist drivel from MSDNC. If you capitalize the ‘B’ in black, but don’t for the ‘W’ is white, that tells you right there you are a leftist identity politics race hustler.

Drawing up maps BASED ON RACE, which is precisely what was not only allowed to happen, but forced to happen by the VRA, prior to LA vs Callais, is the very definition of racism. The way to stop discriminating based on race, is to stop discriminating based on race.

In addition, for anyone paying attention to the actual candidates in TN, an old white male democrat in that seat is likely to be replaced by a black female republican. So how is that rACisT?

How did tennesseestan Republicans draw the maps without using race. They specifically stated during the discussion of the bill that the maps were drawn to give Republicans an advantage and that they were drawn only using census data. Voting/party membership is not part of census data. How could they draw the map to give Republicans an advantage? Maybe using race as a proxy for voting/party membership?

Let's talk about the MAQA yahoos who bitched and moaned about the lack of Republican representation in New England based on voting patterns. Are they going to speak up against what Tennessee is doing or are they complete and utter partisan hypocrites.

Probably the same way donks draw up district maps when they are gerrymandering in blue states, including heavily white New England ones.

[BDKJMU]

BOOM!

Boom if you want less democracy and freedoms. Congrats.

Maybe the VA donks can follow their own Constitutionally mandated timelines next time.

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How did tennesseestan Republicans draw the maps without using race. They specifically stated during the discussion of the bill that the maps were drawn to give Republicans an advantage and that they were drawn only using census data. Voting/party membership is not part of census data. How could they draw the map to give Republicans an advantage? Maybe using race as a proxy for voting/party membership?

Let's talk about the MAQA yahoos who bitched and moaned about the lack of Republican representation in New England based on voting patterns. Are they going to speak up against what Tennessee is doing or are they complete and utter partisan hypocrites.

Probably the same way donks draw up district maps when they are gerrymandering in blue states, including heavily white New England ones.

In the New England states, did they explicitly state that their maps were drawn only using census data?

What is it about New England that triggers MAQA so much?

• Vermont has 1 House Representative - complaining about gerrymandering there is like complaining about Wyoming.
• Maine, New Hampshire & Rhode Island have 2 House Representatives - drawing the map so that Conks could win one would require it's own form of gerrymandering.
• Maine also has a Conk Senator, if a Conk can win a statewide office, surely one can win one of the House districts and low and behold they win the 2nd district often enough to call this a canard.

Anyone who complains about New England but says nothing or approves of what tennesseestan is doing is a HYPOCRITE.

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Boom if you want less democracy and freedoms. Congrats.

Maybe the VA donks can follow their own Constitutionally mandated timelines next time.

Judges get rulings wrong all the time. Are you criticizing them for playing the game which Trump started?

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Maybe the VA donks can follow their own Constitutionally mandated timelines next time.

Judges get rulings wrong all the time. Are you criticizing them for playing the game which Trump started?

Go read up about what VA statues say about the requirements for passing mid cycle redistricting, and get back to me.

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Probably the same way donks draw up district maps when they are gerrymandering in blue states, including heavily white New England ones.

Anyone who complains about New England but says nothing or approves of what tennesseestan is doing is a HYPOCRITE.