Meanwhile, Republicans seem to be on the verge of panic. Anxious about midterms, the White House has spent months trying to influence red states to gerrymander their congressional lines to turn more seats in Congress. So far, that pressure campaign has had mixed results. The MAGA leader then went on to suggest that Republicans are […]
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Trump Gives Away His Entire Game on Midterm Elections
Meanwhile, Republicans seem to be on the verge of panic. Anxious about midterms, the White House has spent months trying to influence red states to gerrymander their congressional lines to turn more seats in Congress. So far, that pressure campaign has had mixed results. The MAGA leader then went on to suggest that Republicans are […]
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“Total Loser”: Sleepless Trump Slams Indiana Republicans
But early indicators—such as a healthy dose of special elections in the last year—suggest that the national backlash to Trump’s second-term agenda could be worse for the party than usual. Democrats have seen surprising gains in unexpected areas of the country, including in Tennessee, Georgia, New Jersey, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Republicans seem to be […]
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Indiana Republican Deletes Post Exposing Extreme Trump Threat
Leavitt tried to deflect, saying that Trump actually meant that he wants products made in America by American small businesses, even if they cost more, because Americans would get a better-quality product and would be supporting their fellow Americans. “Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more […]
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Indiana Republican Deletes Post Exposing Trump Gerrymandering Threat
Leavitt tried to deflect, saying that Trump actually meant that he wants products made in America by American small businesses, even if they cost more, because Americans would get a better-quality product and would be supporting their fellow Americans. “Again, with respect to affordability, every economic metric, Kaitlan, and I wish you would report more […]
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Trump Melts Down Over Key Gerrymandering Scheme Ahead of Vote
Republicans and Democrats alike have long attacked the court over its investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and those efforts only increased after the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif last year. In March 2020, ICC prosecutors opened an […]
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Trump Lashes Out at GOP Senator Who Blocked Gerrymandering Scheme
Republicans and Democrats alike have long attacked the court over its investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and those efforts only increased after the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif last year. In March 2020, ICC prosecutors opened an […]
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Some Indiana Republicans Are Balking at Trump’s Gerrymandering Scheme
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. With President Trump’s deep unpopularity and the traditional backlash against the president’s party, Republicans seem destined to lose the House. So last summer, Trump started insisting that state-level Republicans further gerrymander their states’ congressional […]
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Transcript: Indiana Republicans Could Block Trump’s Gerrymandering
Hunley: Well, so for one, we really want to keep like communities together, and the maps that we passed here in Indiana during our last redistricting, which we do once every 10 years, the maps that we passed last time actually got an A for keeping compact communities together. So you want whole cities together, […]
Read MoreIndiana Statehouse Rocked by Protests as Republicans Try to Rig Maps
Protesters packed the Indiana Statehouse Monday to fight against Republican plans to redraw the state’s congressional maps to give their party an extra advantage and eliminate the state’s two Democratic congressional seats. President Trump has pushed for the redistricting, which passed Indiana’s House of Representatives last week. Republicans in the state Senate have warned that […]
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Supreme Court Allows Texas To Use Racially Gerrymandered Map In Midterms
Source: Brandon Bell / Getty In news that can be filed under “disappointing, but not surprising,” the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling allowing Texas to use its recently redistricted map in the 2026 midterms. According to CBS News, the ruling came after a panel of federal judges struck down the map last month. In […]
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Indiana House Republicans Pass Map Wiping Out All Democratic Seats
“I just think being off for 50 days, there was no continuity. Nobody was here. There was nobody like, ‘Hey, you’re doing great. Keep it up,’” the lawmaker continued. “Everyone being back in their district, there was a loneliness. A lot of members may have felt like we’re on our own.” Johnson shocked the halls […]
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Petition Rejecting Missouri’s Redistricting Effort To Be Submitted Next Week
Source: Michael Thomas / Getty Missouri is one of several states that engaged in a mid-decade redistricting effort at the behest of President Donald Trump. While the state legislature approved a new map that would give the GOP another House seat in Missouri, a referendum campaign has gained enough signatures to potentially take the map […]
Read MoreTrump’s Use of Slur Costs Him Ally in Red State Redistricting Scheme
Between March 17 and March 22, the bureau spent $851,344, according to a Bloomberg report, and agents racked up 4,737 hours of overtime pay between January and July looking through the DOJ’s evidence on Epstein. This included the investigation into Epstein’s 2019 prison death, as well as “search warrant execution photos,” “street surveillance video,” and […]
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Trump’s Insult to Tim Walz Costs Him Key Ally in Redistricting Scheme
Between March 17 and March 22, the bureau spent $851,344, according to a Bloomberg report, and agents racked up 4,737 hours of overtime pay between January and July looking through the DOJ’s evidence on Epstein. This included the investigation into Epstein’s 2019 prison death, as well as “search warrant execution photos,” “street surveillance video,” and […]
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A Federal Judge Melted Down in Texas’s Gerrymandering Wars
Perhaps the most striking moment comes five pages in, when Smith asked readers to forgive his haste and any flaws in his reasoning or demeanor that might come with it. “In the interest of time, this dissent is, admittedly, disjointed,” Smith wrote. “Usually, in dissenting from an opinion of this length, I would spend more […]
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MAGA’s State-by-State Plot to Butcher Democracy
Four years later, in a racial gerrymandering case from Alabama, Allen v. Milligan (formerly Merrill v. Milligan), Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh worked together to invite the Voting Rights Act case they really wanted. Roberts and Kavanaugh sided with the liberals to order an Alabama map that created two Black opportunity districts, while patiently teeing up the challenge they […]
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MAGA Is Livid Ted Cruz Accidentally Helped Block Texas Redistricting
Prosecutors argued that Weinstein, who in recent years went by the alias Mike Konig to hide his criminal history, milked roughly $35 million from dozens of investors who believed they were putting their money into Covid-19 masks, baby formula, and first aid kits for Ukraine, according to the indictment. It was a crime that Weinstein […]
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Red State GOP Gives Trump the Middle Finger on Gerrymandering
“People are wise to your hoax, and ABC is, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I’ll tell you something, I’ll tell you something, I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who […]
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Judge Dumps Cold Water on Trump’s Texas Gerrymandering Scheme
A federal appeals court panel affirmed the dismissal Tuesday of President Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN for using the term “the Big Lie,” calling the president’s claims “unpersuasive” and “meritless.” “Trump has not adequately alleged the falsity of CNN’s statements. Therefore, he has failed to state a defamation claim,” wrote Eleventh Circuit […]
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Trump Suffers Major Setback in Texas Gerrymandering Scheme
A federal appeals court panel affirmed the dismissal Tuesday of President Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN for using the term “the Big Lie,” calling the president’s claims “unpersuasive” and “meritless.” “Trump has not adequately alleged the falsity of CNN’s statements. Therefore, he has failed to state a defamation claim,” wrote Eleventh Circuit […]
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Republican Lawmaker Becomes Victim of Swatting After Trump Attack
His remarks had been hurtful, she said. “However, I have something in my heart that I think is incredibly important for our country, and that is to end the toxic fighting in politics. And this has been going on for years.… The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me […]
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Republican Lawmaker Becomes Swatting Target Hours After Trump Attack
His remarks had been hurtful, she said. “However, I have something in my heart that I think is incredibly important for our country, and that is to end the toxic fighting in politics. And this has been going on for years.… The most hurtful thing he said, which is absolutely untrue, is he called me […]
Read MoreYet Another Red State Kills Trump’s Redistricting Dreams
The signees make a point to note that Israel’s genocide has been largely bankrolled by the U.S. government and the American taxpayer, stating that “the United States provided an estimated $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel, and during that same period, the White House authorized or notified over $30,000,000,000 in additional new arms sales agreements […]
Read MoreDemocrats Get Big Win in Red State After GOP’s Blatant Gerrymandering
Taake was convicted of attacking a police officer at the Capitol with bear spray and a whip during the riots. He had also previously been charged in Harris County, Texas, with sending explicit photos and messages to someone who he thought was a 15-year-old girl, and he was out on bond when he took part […]
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Illinois Governor: Redistricting Effort Hinges On Indiana
Source: Jamie Kelter Davis / Getty Tuesday’s elections were a huge boon for Democrats in the ongoing redistricting battle. While redistricting efforts in California and Virginia are currently underway, Gov. JB Pritzker said that an Illinois redistricting effort would be decided by how Indiana’s redistricting push progresses. According to STLPR, Pritzker was speaking at an […]
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Blue Wave News: California Republican Party Announces Lawsuit After Prop 50 Passes, Allowing New Voting Map
Source: Christina House / Getty A lot of things happened during Tuesday night’s blue wave that saw Democrats winning key state elections across the country. New York City got its first Muslim mayor, to the dismay of seething Islamaphobes everywhere. Women became governors and mayors for the first time in the history of states and […]
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Trump’s Redistricting Scheme Falls Apart in Yet Another Red State
It seems that many of those voters thought Trump’s deportation crackdown would only target violent gangs, not their friends, family, and neighbors. In May, an Equis poll came out that showed that 15 percent of Latinos who voted for Trump completely disapproved of his presidential actions by that point. An additional66 percent of all Latino […]
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Trump’s Gerrymandering Scheme Fails in Another Red State
It seems that many of those voters thought Trump’s deportation crackdown would only target violent gangs, not their friends, family, and neighbors. In May, an Equis poll came out that showed that 15 percent of Latinos who voted for Trump completely disapproved of his presidential actions by that point. An additional66 percent of all Latino […]
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GOP Congressman Pissed His Party’s Gerrymandering Will Sacrifice Him
“Anyone who thought that there was some sophisticated strategy to try and intimidate Kim didn’t know the truth,” Taylor said. “Which was that, the president was freestyling. It was scaring his team. The secretary of defense walked out of one of those meetings and turned to us at the Department of Homeland Security and said, […]
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Republicans Secure Major Win in Ohio—With Redder Districts Come 2026
“Anyone who thought that there was some sophisticated strategy to try and intimidate Kim didn’t know the truth,” Taylor said. “Which was that, the president was freestyling. It was scaring his team. The secretary of defense walked out of one of those meetings and turned to us at the Department of Homeland Security and said, […]
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