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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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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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 […]
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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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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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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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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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Judge Rules Democrats Can Continue Virginia Redistricting Effort
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Virginia Democrats notched a legal win on Wednesday when a federal judge ruled their redistricting effort can proceed. According to Democracy Docket, Virginia Republicans filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, requesting an immediate block to a constitutional amendment that Democrats introduced in the General Assembly on Monday. The measure, House […]
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Indiana Governor Calls Special Session For Redistricting
Source: SOPA Images / Getty The Republican Party is desperately afraid of losing control of the House in the 2026 midterms. That fear had led them to spend the last several months launching redistricting efforts to gerrymander congressional maps to their advantage. While it looked like an Indiana redistricting effort didn’t have the votes to […]
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Republican Governor Tries to Force Party to Gerrymander for Trump
“Republicans’ reckless decisions are causing prices on everything to go up, from groceries to gas—Wisconsinites cannot afford to pay even more for healthcare, too,” Evers said. “Republicans need to end this chaos and stop working to make healthcare more expensive. It’s that simple.” But Wisconsin is far from the only state expected to suffer. As […]
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Virginia Democrats Launch Surprise Redistricting Effort
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The nationwide redistricting saga took a surprise turn on Thursday when Democratic legislators in Virginia announced they would begin a redistricting process of their own. According to the Washington Post, House of Delegates Speaker Don Scott sent a letter to his colleagues informing them that a special legislative session […]
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North Carolina’s GOP State Legislature Passes Gerrymandered Map
Source: Tasos Katopodis / Getty President Donald Trump is acutely aware that his agenda isn’t popular. His approval rating has consistently been underwater for most of his second term. Despite campaigning on lowering prices, inflation is higher now than it was this time last year, resulting in widespread disapproval of Trump’s handling of the economy. […]
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Trump’s Gerrymandering Scheme in Red State Falls Apart at the Seams
“This post doesn’t name them for some reason, but the ‘broad spectrum of new media outlets’ include: Gateway Pundit, TPUSA, and LindellTV, per their announcements,” CNN’s Natasha Bertrand wrote. Gateway Pundit, which proudly announced its inclusion in the Pentagon press corps on Wednesday, is known for constantly spreading false information, from falsely accusing multiple innocent […]
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North Carolina Lawmakers Announce Redistricting Effort
Source: Win McNamee / Getty The Republican redistricting effort has once again expanded, as the North Carolina state legislature announced on Monday that it will begin its own redistricting process. According to The New York Times, Phil Berger, the state Senate leader, and Destin Hall, the speaker of the state House of Representatives, issued a […]
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[Op-Ed] Why Redistricting Is A Test Of Courage We Can’t Fail
Source: The Austin American-Statesman/Hearst Newspapers / Getty History tells us that moments of great democratic crisis don’t ask us to recite our values louder. They ask us to risk them, to test them, and to adapt them. Today is one of those moments, and that’s why courage is the word of the hour. Look at […]
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“Game On”: Dem Governors Hit Back at Texas Forcing Through Rigged Maps
“So, I have never actually met [Vladimir] Putin. The president did that meeting. I have talked to him on the phone a number of times. You know, it’s interesting, he’s more soft-spoken than you would necessarily expect. You know, the American media has a particular image of him,” Vance said. “He’s soft spoken, in a […]
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Gavin Newsom Comes Out Swinging on Trump Redistricting War
Pam Bondi, however, thinks the incident is no laughing matter. In fact, by her lights, Dunn’s sandwich throwing is the deep state manifest. In a post announcing Dunn’s firing, Bondi claimed, quite grandiosely, that “this is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus […]
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Gavin Newsom Launches California Into Trump’s Redistricting War
Pam Bondi, however, thinks the incident is no laughing matter. In fact, by her lights, Dunn’s sandwich throwing is the deep state manifest. In a post announcing Dunn’s firing, Bondi claimed, quite grandiosely, that “this is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus […]
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Texas GOP Ropes Public Safety Office Into Hunting Democrats
“I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse,” Trump told a packed room of reporters. “This is Liberation Day in D.C., and we’re gonna take our capital back. We’re taking it back. Under the authorities vested in me as the president of the United States, […]
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