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It's great that turnout here seems high, but a long line is also a sign of voter suppression because Ohio's GOP limited early voting to just 1 site per county regardless of population.

Franklin County's 1.3 million people (heavily Dem) & Vinton County's 12,000 people (heavily GOP) each get 1 site

Tweet from Ohio reporter Karen Kasler with a short video embedded of voters waiting in line to vote early. The text says, "Last day of early voting in Ohio and the line at the Franklin County Board of Elections is insane - it’s backed around itself multiple times. I have been covering early voting since Ohio started it in 2005 and I’ve never seen anything close to this"

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Nov 3, 2024

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This. The court may even pair the release of the ruling in favor of birthright citizenship with the one gutting the Voting Rights Act, and the usual suspects will proclaim it’s a sign of moderation

Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

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Apr 1, 2026

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Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections.

The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House.

Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

Mike Johnson is House speaker only because of illegal GOP gerrymanders

Discover how partisan gerrymandering secured GOP control in Congress and shaped national politics—find out more in this in-depth analysis.

The Downballot @the-downballot.com

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

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May 4, 2026

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Big news in the fight against GOP gerrymanders:

Missouri group announces that local officials have verified enough voter signatures to suspend the new GOP congressional map until a veto referendum takes place.

But GOP officials are trying to drag out the process to thwart it, & litigation is going

Missouri referendum campaign says it has enough signatures to challenge gerrymandered map • Missouri Independent

Backers of a proposed referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional plan believe they have met the minimum number of signatures.

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Mar 23, 2026

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The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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Oct 18, 2025

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NEW: Virginia Dem legislators have passed their new 10-1 congressional map targeting 4 Republicans. Gov. Spanberger will likely sign it soon.

It would take effect for 2026 if voters pass it in an April 21 referendum (litigation pending).

Interactive map+data: davesredistricting.org/join/8560023...

Image of a Virginia Democrats' proposed congressional map that is drawn to elect a ten-to-one Democratic majority and flip four Republican seats in 2026. The district lines are displayed over top of a basemap with major roads and cities labeled. The districts are colored by the 2024 presidential winner's margin of victory, with Kamala Harris districts in blue and Donald Trump districts in red. Darker shades represent larger margins of victory. An embedded chart shows the 2024 presidential election results and the adult population racial demographics in each district.

Kamala Harris won 10 of the 11 districts, while Black voters would retain their ability to elect their preferred candidates in Districts 3 and 4, which remain safely Democratic.

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Feb 20, 2026

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The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump has committed at least 16 of those same offenses.

#NoKings

Screenshot of a list of the 27 specific grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 16 of them in whole or in part, highlighted in yellow and listed below:
"1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
3. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither [Partial]
4. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
5. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
6. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
7. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
8. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
9. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
10. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
11. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
12. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
13. [Partial], abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
14. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
15. [Partial], and destroyed the lives of our people.
16. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us [Partial]"

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Jun 14, 2025

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The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.

Happy 250, America!

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Jul 2, 2026

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BREAKING: Indiana Republicans FAILED to pass a new 9-0 congressional gerrymander after enough GOP senators sided with Dems. The GOP's 7-2 map stays in place.

Trump is trying to re-gerrymander maps nationwide. At least 11 Indiana Rs got death threats after he called for primaries—but it still failed

Image of Indiana Republicans’ attempted new congressional gerrymander that was designed to turn their currently gerrymandered 7-to-2 majority into a 9-to-0 majority. An accompanying chart displays the 2024 presidential results for each district. Every district is a shade of medium to dark red, and five districts crack the Indianapolis metropolitan area to prevent the heavily Democratic city and its suburbs from electing a Democrat or two. Two districts also split the Democratic-leaning northwest along Lake Michigan by combining the region with rural areas further south and east.

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Dec 11, 2025

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Thune says the quiet part out loud about the filibuster. Democrats can just quote this when they finally win a majority willing to abolish it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Thune on the filibuster: "Throughout history, it has protected Republicans and conservative priorities and principles a lot more often than it has protected Democrats"

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Mar 17, 2026

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NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate.

This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Electoral College cartogram showing which states are in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and which ones could join in time for it to activate by 2028. Each state is sized and labeled according to its number of electoral votes. The states are spaced out enough to accommodate the changes in size but retain their general shapes and relative positions on the map.

Current members are in solid orange, potential members are in light green, and nonmembers that are unlikely to join are in medium gray. Members have 222 electoral votes, potential states have 68, and the unlikely states have 248. The compact would only activate once states with at least 270 electoral votes have joined.

The seven potential members and their electoral vote are Alaska (3), Arizona (11), Michigan (15), Nevada (6), New Hampshire (4), Pennsylvania (19), and Wisconsin (10). Democrats would need to gain the governor's office and/or legislative chambers to win unified power in these states, as detailed in the spreadsheet linked in this post.

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Apr 14, 2026

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Orban consolidated power by making the electoral system less proportional and gerrymandering districts of very unequal sizes.

That gave Orban supermajorities when the opposition was divided and less popular—but it turned an opposition landslide into a supermajority that can now dismantle the regime

Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social

💥🇭🇺With 95% of votes counted, Hungary’s map shows the opposition Tisza party crushing Fidesz 94–12 in constituencies. Péter Magyar has secured a 2/3 majority, asked President Tamás Sulyok and other Orbán loyalists to resign immediately, and announced his first visit to Warsaw.

1,639 404

Apr 12, 2026

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Dems winning in Virginia will directly lead to thousands regaining the right to vote.

Spanberger can reverse GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin's reinstatement of a Jim Crow-era lifetime voting ban for felonies.

Dem lawmakers can also put a constitutional amendment on next year's ballot to permanently end it

NBC News @nbcnews.com

BREAKING: Democrat Abigail Spanberger flips control of the Virginia governorship, becoming the first woman to lead the state, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/47Ljn7Z

1,547 330

Nov 5, 2025

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Also, Cuomo almost single-handedly cost Dems the House.

He let the GOP gerrymander NY’s Senate to thwart progressives, pushed through an amendment to try to block future Dem maps, & chose conservative judges who blocked Dems from gerrymandering after 2020 while the GOP ruthlessly drew TX, FL, etc.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social

Andrew Cuomo, in addition to being a serial sexual harasser, knowingly sent people with Covid into old folks homes, leading to a massive rate of infection and death for the elderly. Read and share the @propublica.org story about how Andrew Cuomo killed your elders.

“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It.

A nursing home in Troy, New York, followed the governor’s order to accept patients being treated for COVID-19. Six weeks later, 18 residents were dead of the disease.

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Mar 1, 2025

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Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.

They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.

Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this

Map of a hypothetical Democratic gerrymander of Illinois' congressional map designed to turn the current 14-3 majority into a 15-2 majority in 2026. The districts are colored by the 2024 presidential winner's margin, with Harris in blue and Trump in red. The blue districts sprawl like pasta noodles across the northern half of the state to redistribute heavily blue parts of the Chicago area and use them to outvote heavily red rural areas.

An accompanying chart shows that 15 districts would be securely blue while just two would be overwhelmingly red. The 1st, 2nd, and 7th districts would be predominantly Black, the 4th district would be majority Latino, and the 3rd district would be plurality white and 37% Latino. These racial demographics are similar in the existing versions of each of those districts.

Image of a hypothetical Maryland congressional map that is gerrymandered to elect an eight-to-zero Democratic majority in 2026 and flip the Republican-held 1st District. All districts are colored varying shades of blue depending on Kamala Harris' victory margin for president in 2024, and an accompanying chart displays those results and the racial demographics. Three of the most heavily Democratic seats have majority-Black populations, an increase from two districts on the current map.

Image of a hypothetical Oregon congressional map gerrymandered to elect six Democrats and eliminate the one remaining Republican seat in 2026, with every district shaded solidly blue. An embedded chart shows that Kamala Harris would have won every district by at least 10 percentage points. Harris won by at least 12 points in every Democratic-held district and by 10 points in the Republican-held 2nd District, which includes most of eastern and central Oregon along with part of eastern Portland.

Image of a hypothetical Virginia congressional map that is gerrymandered to elect a ten-to-one Democratic majority and flip four Republican seats in 2026. Nine of the districts are securely Democratic and shaded solid blue, one of the districts is overwhelmingly Republican and shaded dark red, and one district is narrowly Democratic-leaning and shaded light blue.

An embedded chart shows the results of the 2024 presidential election in each district, with Kamala Harris winning nine districts by double-digit margins and the swing district by 3 percentage points. Republicans votes are wasted by being packed into a single district in western Virginia that Donald Trump won in a 55-point landslide. Black voters would retain their current ability to elect their chosen candidates in the safely Democratic 3rd and 4th districts in the Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Southside regions.

Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social

The Supreme Court just handed Texas Republicans at least 2 more House seats & possibly up to 5 despite the state GOP explicitly justifying their remap based on an unconstitutional use of race in redistricting. Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case

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Dec 5, 2025

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Alabama’s lieutenant governor, who also serves as president of the state Senate, posted a 7-0 Republican gerrymander calling for his party to eliminate both Black Democrats.

Every seat on a map like this would be dark red and heavily white

Tweet from Alabama’s Republican Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth:

“Alabama Republicans control both U.S.
Senate seats, all constitutional offices, every state judgeship, and have legislative supermajorities, so it makes perfect sense for us to hold every congressional seat, too.

We are bright red state, and our congressional map should show it.”

Included is a gerrymandered congressional map where all seven districts would be solidly Republican and majority white.

Example gerrymander tweeted by Alabama’s Republican Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth where all seven congressional districts would be solidly Republican and majority white. Several districts split the heavily Black and Democratic-favoring Black Belt region running across south-central Alabama, which is currently located in two districts represented by Black Democrats.

Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social

Alabama’s Republican legislative leaders say they want a chance to gerrymander both Black Democrats out of their congressional seats to elect 7 (white) Republicans. When calling the special session, Gov. Kay Ivey had mentioned reverting to a 6-1 map like Alabama had before a court overturned it

Alabama seeks to draw new congressional map ahead of midterms

Gov. Kay Ivey called a special session to begin the redistricting process after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.

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May 3, 2026

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NBC calls the Illinois Senate Dem primary for Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton.

2027 is on track to have three Black women as senators, a new record from the current two.

Only five Black women have ever been senators (four elected outright and one appointed). Three years ago there were zero in the Senate

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton wins Democratic Senate primary in Illinois

NBC News projects that Stratton, who was backed by Gov. JB Pritzker, defeated two sitting members of Congress after an expensive race.

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Mar 18, 2026

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Reply to @stephenwolf.bsky.social

When people say the South gets what it deserves for voting Republican, remind them that:

1) 45% of Southerners voted for Biden. Trump only won 53% there

2) Half of America’s Black population lives in the South

3) The region has widespread gerrymandering & restrictive voting laws

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Sep 29, 2024

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"You can only challenge the racial gerrymander if you preserve the partisan gerrymander that was the reason for the racial gerrymander" is tortured logic befitting Redemption or Jim Crow.

The court effectively deemed the VRA and the 15th Amendment unconstitutional while pretending they didn't

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social

The utter incoherence of Callais is captured in this paragraph (pg. 36). Under Callais, plaintiffs have to show you could draw a Black-majority district that would elect Julia Letlow, a white Republican. That defeats the purpose of the claim, which is to end vote dilution.

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Apr 29, 2026

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One board member said the FBI approached some without warrants.

“They had agents all across the state going to civil rights leaders and community leaders’ doors intimidating them, coming and demanding that they talk about literally anything they would ask.”

“Just straight-up intimidation tactics.”

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social

FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search.

FBI raids Ohio voting-rights organization

“Just straight up intimidation tactics”: Sources tell MS NOW agents also fanned across the state, showing up at staff members’ homes.

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Jun 12, 2026

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SCOTUS in 2022:
Five months before Election Day is too late for Louisiana to redraw its GOP House map that harms Black voters. It must wait until 2024.

SCOTUS in 2026:
Louisiana may cancel its imminent primary—where >40,000 already voted—to enact basically the same old map that harms Black voters

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social

NEW: The Supreme Court has frequently admonished lower courts for intervening too close to elections but is now facing accusations that it is doing exactly that in a way that helps Republicans draw new districts at breakneck speed: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court faces new criticism for redistricting decision so close to the 2026 elections

Justices have said judges should not interfere in election disputes so close to the primary process, but their own rulings have triggered a frenzy to draw new congressional maps.

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May 13, 2026

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Emails obtained via public records requests reveal a network of Republican election officials in Georgia are coordinating on strategies to overturn the results of the 2024 elections

Network of Georgia election officials strategizing to undermine 2024 result

Emails reveal Georgia Election Integrity Coalition, a group of officials and election deniers, coordinating in swing state

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Sep 18, 2024

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Liberals easily hold their Wisconsin Supreme Court majority, & Elon Musk fails spectacularly despite illegally bribing voters.

Republicans underperform Trump by 16-22 points in Florida's special elections.

Sen. Cory Booker's record-breaking 24+ hour filibuster energizes Dems.

A bad day for GOP.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com

Crawford ahead of where she needs to be by 8 points in counties with a good bit reporting. She is ahead of Harris by 17 points in Dane and Milwaukee counties (scatter here). It's over

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Apr 2, 2025

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Maine has voted in a landslide to reject a Republican-supported ballot initiative that would have restricted voting access heading into the critical 2026 midterms

Mainers defeat Republican effort to institute voter ID and limit absentee voting

The no side of Question 1 had 60.2% of votes to 39.8% for the yes side when the Bangor Daily News and its national partner, Decision Desk HQ, called the race at 9:26 p.m. Tuesday.

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Nov 5, 2025