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News & Current Events Apr 22, 2026 at 1:11 AM

Virginia voters approve Democrats' redistricting plan, giving the party a midterm election boost

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Virginia voters approve Democrats' redistricting plan, giving the party a midterm election boost
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Virginia voters approve Democrats' redistricting plan, giving the party a midterm election boost
NBC News projects Democrats will be able to enact a new proposed map designed to net them up to four seats, as they push for control of the narrowly divided House.
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johnn48 16 hr ago +892
Texas’s redistricting plan seems to have backfired on the Republicans. What seemed like a bold move emboldened California and other states to take proactive steps to prevent the Republicans from gerrymandering their state’s in order to prevent a blue wave in the midterms.
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wheatley_cereal 16 hr ago +314
Backfired in more ways than one — and if the blue wave is really big, they might really come to regret it. They may have spread their margins too thin and some of those light red gerrymanders could turn light blue in the right weather.
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CafecitoHippo 15 hr ago +159
It's honestly what they have to do. Republicans are becoming less popular but they have hung onto power through gerrymandering and the electoral college. But when you start losing votes, you have to spread them thinner and thinner across districts to maintain that level of power. It's why they're so focused on "voter fraud" these days. They've spread out their base so much that their hope of continuing power is via suppressing the other side from voting. They moved further and further right to try and drum up the votes from the right but in doing so, they've finally pushed away moderates in Trump's second term. They've done everything they can to hold onto power and I think they know it's their last gasp and so they're throwing EVERYTHING they can now to try and strip away rights and suppress votes because it's all they have at this point.
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-Saucegurlllll 15 hr ago +92
I don't think they pushed away moderates necessarily because they moved right. I think if they did it less dumbly, they could get moderates to take the position that "maybe some people do deserve to be in those concentration camps." The problem is that they're f****** with money in so many ways all at once that there's no plausible explanation for why this is all someone else's fault. You can't look at the illegal tariffs and go "Well that was clearly Biden"; you can't look at the stupid, illegal, murderous war in Iran and go "High gas prices must have been Obama's fault." I think if they just stuck to stripping people's rights, they would still have broad enough support in spite of being pedophiles and murdering Renee Good and Alex Pretti in broad daylight. But they just had to touch the money.
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Spire_Citron 15 hr ago +28
Yeah. They really are short of any wins unless you're such a terrible person that you take joy in the nasty parts of what they're doing. And there are more people than you'd hope who do, but most people care about their own bank accounts and the general financial stability of the country far more. I'm sure Trump's been making a lot of money off the chaos, but his outlook for the midterms just keeps looking worse and worse. Honestly feels like he's stopped caring at this point and is just going to go all in on market manipulation.
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GenialGiant 14 hr ago +10
>you can't look at the stupid, illegal, murderous war in Iran and go "High gas prices must have been Obama's fault." In a [recent Quinnipiac poll](https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3956), 53% of Republicans (and 15% of independents) said that they blamed President Trump "not at all" for the recent rise in gasoline prices, though it's not clear from this who they do blame (probably Iran and Biden, if I had to guess).
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-Saucegurlllll 11 hr ago +8
Yeah, the Republican party is not filled with moderates. That's why something like 80% of them are still 100% pro Trump. The moderates are the ones getting impacted economically and turning away their support. Like I said, the moderates could be walked towards supporting fascism no problem. They simply do not see issues in policies that only hurt "the others." It's only once it hurts them personally that they start dropping their support.
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caligaris_cabinet 11 hr ago +3
That’s still really low for a party that gives him near unanimous support.
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Jokerchyld 14 hr ago +6
This isnt really about party politics because the Republicans are more like a cult than a party when they give fealty to a man no matter what non sensical thing he does. That will separate on a clear line of people who want to support badness and people who want something to progress us forward. Anybody who stands behind a person who calls himself Jesus, curses out the Pope, feels he should be king of the world, takes no accountability for anything, only hires people who agree with him and constantly lies you have to question their logic and their motives. Guaranteed if someone did to the Trump supporters and his team what he is doing to other people they wouldnt like it. And yes Im totally judging anybody I know who votes for this idiot come November seeing what he has destroyed in almost two years. You cant pretend Trump is a valid candidate anymore because he exposed himself in real time to the entire world. Theres no coming back from that.
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FluffyToughy 14 hr ago +7
> Republicans are becoming less popular but they have hung onto power through gerrymandering and the electoral college Trump won the popular vote. The republicans won the popular vote in the 2022 and 2024 house elections. The uneducated and miseducated won't go away from wishful thinking. You're stuck with them.
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BalianofReddit 15 hr ago +11
Texas was a gamble for republicans. They redistributed in the hope they will get more Latino votes. Honestly I think for a large portion of that community that simply isnt realistic.
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RobutNotRobot 11 hr ago +3
Nearly all those districts are +10 and over. It would take one hell of a wave to overcome that. And if that does happen it could easily be a 100 seat loss.
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this_dudeagain 16 hr ago +96
It's basically back to the status quo but there's still Florida.
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illstealurcandy 16 hr ago +50
Florida's is just a further dilution. They already redistricted since the 2020 census.
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New_Housing785 10 hr ago +2
Thats why desantis hasn't been able to do it yet the Republicans there in the districts that will get broken up won't support it to save their own seats.
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SonicSingularity 15 hr ago +56
Possibly not. I still dont think the Texas redistricting will work out as well as they think. They drew that map assuming they'd retain Latin voters from 2024, and Id be shocked if they did. They might have actually dummymandered themselves.
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ProfessionalOil2014 15 hr ago +16
Probably why they’re fighting so hard for the save thing. 
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caligaris_cabinet 11 hr ago +6
Which is dead in the water now. SAVE isn’t moving to a vote
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Bosco215 15 hr ago +2
It would probably be easier to not be as shitty as they are. They spend more effort, energy, and resources to screw everything up.
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bobandgeorge 12 hr ago +5
Florida probably won't be able to redistrict before the midterms. We voted into our Constitution that districts cannot be redrawn to favor any one party. Even if they manage to get a congressional special session going and vote on it soon, it will likely be held up in the courts.
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explosiv_skull 13 hr ago +3
Florida is probably their "break glass in case of emergency" backup. They're gonna try to pass SAVE first or hope SCOTUS nukes the VRA.
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Realtrain 15 hr ago +42
I just *pray* that this all ends with federal legislation banning partisan gerrymandering. This is a stupid cold war that the majority of Americans *don't* want to go through.
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Marine_Mustang 15 hr ago +13
Supreme Court already ruled that partisan gerrymandering is a-ok with the Constitution. I think the best we can hope for are federally-mandated independent commissions with some minimum standards for non-partisan membership.
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Realtrain 14 hr ago +25
>Supreme Court already ruled that partisan gerrymandering is a-ok with the Constitution. They ruled it doesn't violate the Constitution. That doesn't stop Congress from passing a bill making it illegal.
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explosiv_skull 13 hr ago +4
>That doesn't stop Congress from passing a bill making it illegal. No, Congress does that all on it's own.
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johnn48 15 hr ago +3
Unfortunately we live in a world where ‘legislation’ is a non sequitur to any constructive discussion. Our nation has become so polarized and partisan that any bipartisan legislative measure is one where one or two RINO or DINO Congressmen crossed the aisle. Polls are the only true representation of our democracy, it’s not represented in our Legislature, Judiciary, or Executive Branch.
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continuousQ 9 hr ago +1
The US needs proportional representation. You don't get democracy from dividing up the country into hundreds of districts and then deleting up to more than half the votes in each district. Get rid of the Senate, double the number of representatives, count all votes nationally and portion out the seats accordingly. And make impeachment and conviction the same thing, so all you need is a simple majority to get rid of corrupt government officials. Everything the Senate used to do, the House can with actual democratic majorities, and the people get to replace all of their representatives every election.
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SoftlySpokenPromises 14 hr ago +5
And the beauty of it is other states are leaving it to a vote instead of just forcing it through.
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orbitaldragon 15 hr ago +11
There's a strong indication it's going to back fire even further. The Texas maps were heavily dependent on a very unusual Latino Republican vote. Those same voters are now heavily displeased with the Trump administration. They weakened their other districts and now might lose the gerrymandered ones. We could see Texas go blue completely uprooting any hopes or plans Republicans had.
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caligaris_cabinet 11 hr ago +1
Stop I can only get so hard
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phord 13 hr ago +2
Queue the "stolen election" whining. OMG. They'll be unbearable!
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Ar_Ciel 15 hr ago +2
I believe this is the find out stage of their crafty plan.
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rubywpnmaster 9 hr ago +1
Reeeeee! NO ONLY MY SIDE CAN DO IT! That’s about the reaction I’m seeing on social media. The salt is delicious 
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Freon424 8 hr ago +1
Its because they know that if Dems gerrymander as hard as the Rs have been since 2010, they can get maybe 80 seats total in the House in a good year. Their gerrymander lets them fluctuate between this +4 they're currently at and a +20 in a good year.
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Uncle_Paul_Hargis 15 hr ago -9
I have a question about this as a Californian. In CA, we’re close to 40% Republican voters. After the redistricting, our legislature will be projected 90-95% Democrat. Not exactly representative of the population. Did Texas do this in the opposite way? Meaning disproportionately aiding Republicans over Democrats? Because none of this seems to be “Protecting Democracy”. (And if that question sounds like sass or passive aggressive, that’s not my intention. It’s a legit question)
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astral23 14 hr ago +19
Trump told Texas to redistrict to benefit him and they did, California said if you do do that then we will do the same for the other party, Texas did as trump demanded so California followed through. Got what it's worth California and Virginia had the people vote on it whereas Texas just did for Trump without even letting citizens vote. Also Texas isn't the only state to redistrict for Trumps benefit, a handful of other states have as well also without letting people vote on it.
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explosiv_skull 12 hr ago +4
It wasn't as big a story since they couldn't gerrymander the state much more than it already was, but add NC to the list of states that gerrymandered specifically at the request of Der Fuhrer without even considering asking the people first.
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Venat14 14 hr ago +14
Yes. Texas started this whole mess by redistricting their state to give Democratic voters less representation. And unlike California and Virginia, Republicans in Texas didn't ask the voters if they approved. They just did it against everyone's will. After Texas did it, a bunch of other red states like Ohio, Missouri, Utah, Florida, etc. have been trying to do it. And none of them put the decision to a vote. They forced it on their states. The problem is, you can't just allow one party to gerrymander their states and not expect the other party to retaliate. The conservatives on the Supreme Court ruled gerrymandering is legal. So as long as that decision stands, this is how this country is going to operate. And Democrats have no incentive to not do this everywhere now that Republicans are going to force it on all their states without allowing the voters to decide.
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webguynd 14 hr ago +7
Yes, Texas is different. Texas specifically tries to maximize Republican seat counts through cracking and packing. Look at Austin, for example. Instead of allowing the city's growth to create multiple Democratic leaning seats, the new maps packed as many Dems into one blue seat then split apart the rest of the city into several rural districts that stretch far outside the city limits. They've concentrated democratic votes into a single sacrificial district, making the surrounding districts safer for Republicans. In California, Republicans are distributed in such a way that makes them a minority in the vast majority of districts, even if they represent 40% of the statewide total. The maps were made using an independent commission (California Citizens Redistricting Commission). The seat disparity is because of geographic sorting (dems being concentrated in urban centers) rather than intentional cracking and packing like in Texas. The Texas legislature controls its own districting, and draws boundries specifically to maximize Republican advantage. In both cases, the big problem is a lack of proportional representation. I'd love to see every state move away from a district-based system and just move to proportional/population based systems.
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johnn48 14 hr ago +6
It actually doesn’t reduce the number of Republicans or Democrats, basically it just dilutes their numbers within a larger population. Another example is if you had a district that was heavily African American or Conservative, a way to lower their clout is to dilute their population within a larger alternative group. So in this example redistrict the Black community to three other districts with White voters. Same amount of Black voters, same neighborhoods, but now voting in different districts.
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Karthy_Romano 14 hr ago +3
> In CA, we’re close to 40% Republican voters. All the statistics for California I'm reading says it's actually around 25%.
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Hrekires 17 hr ago +643
We need a national ban on partisan gerrymandering, but every time Democrats have tried to enact one, Republicans blocked it. Seems like the only way to get Republicans to come to the table on the issue is for them to be impacted by gerrymandering just as much as Democrats have been. (And throw in a ban on racial gerrymandering too given that the Supreme Court seems likely to decide that actually, the Voting Rights Act is racist against white people so we need to throw it out)
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RockPaperOwFire 17 hr ago +181
Yup. Didn’t have to be like this, they literally enabled it. FAFO.
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GetsBetterAfterAFew 17 hr ago +66
Democrats in Congress represent 50M more Americans than Republicans, of course they would block it. If 75% of Americans would get out and vote, we would never see a Republican POTUS or Congress again, we could finally get going without theae fascists stealing from us ever again and join the rest of the world and move forward.
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s0ftwares3rf 15 hr ago +3
Which part of the world do you think has it figured out?
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candl2 15 hr ago +2
New Zealand.
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metaldrummerx 14 hr ago +4
New Zealand politics is actually boiling over right now with a battle between the native Māori aboriginals and the settlers. It’s pretty hairy down there currently.
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Nazamroth 8 hr ago +1
Just break out the shavers then. Surely the ones that can process entire sheep in seconds, will also do for humans.
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Bgrngod 16 hr ago +20
It needs to be a constitutional amendment at this point. Just put a stake right through the heart of that monster and leave it there. So yeah, I definitely agree with you. By a lot.
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frostmatthew 15 hr ago +9
Yeah good luck getting 2/3rds of Congress and 3/4ths of states to get onboard with that.
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HyruleSmash855 16 hr ago +7
Personally, I hope the Democrats try to pass a bill banning stock trading for members of Congress, reinstating campaign financing laws while accounting for what the Supreme Court said was illegal previously, banning people from using prediction markets to gamble. It’s insane that people can legally be on sports in every state just because it’s a prediction market and a Trump administration refuses to via CFTC allow states to regulate them. Not to mention the whole problem with insider, trading, and betting on war and elections. We need stronger legislation on Inspector Generals so the President cannot fire them, same for people appointed to boards like FTC if possible so they cannot just be fired. Some sort of protection. I would even be in favor in spinning the Department of Justice off from the Executive Branch so the President cannot use them like Trump is, we can debate that. Most of this stuff is a pipe dream but we really need legislation fixing all of the weakness Trump has exposed in the federal government. We need to reign in the power of the Executive Branch. We need Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform and take the power away from the executive branch to manage the system. Congress advocated the power and turned the entire system into an administrative system, where the executive branch is fully responsible for it and even makes the policies for it.
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Captain_Mazhar 16 hr ago +6
Well said. As a state bureaucrat, I am not allowed to trade individual securities at all without an entire disclosure and preclearance process that can take hours if not days for individual trades. In order to quickly trade securities, I have to set up an externally managed account with a manager and provide to the state a sworn statement under penalty of perjury that I have no direct or indirect control over the trading decisions. Hold Congress to this same standard.
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caligaris_cabinet 11 hr ago +2
There’s a laundry list of things we need to correct this country. Once we take back n Congress we cannot allow it to fall back into Republican hands. I don’t care how apathetic or complacent you feel, every time Republicans take the House and/or Senate our country gets progressively worse. Take the lessons we learned in 2010, 2014, 2022, etc. for 2028 and 2030. Imagine what we could do with a Democrat in office and a fully blue Congress an entire presidential term.
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Training-Purple-5220 16 hr ago +6
That’ll never happen. Dems themselves are so deep in insider trading that there’s an ETF that does nothing but follow Pelosi’s trades.
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freedfg 17 hr ago +10
There's a reason other countries call Democrats center right or even conservative. It's because our party system has 2 sides. The party of very strictly adhering to decorum, rules, the constitution, laws, values...and Republicans.
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xXGray_WolfXx 17 hr ago +11
Believe what? They are absolutely correct. Democrats are not even in the left. They are right of center about two or three points. While Republicans are about seven.
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dyslexda 16 hr ago +3
"points" implies there's some objective measure of this, when there is anything but. The Overton Window is all relative.
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PartyWithSlurmz 17 hr ago +760
Incoming GOP lawsuit that will of course fail. I bet it boils their bottoms that Dems are following their lead on gerrymandering mandering.
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aaronhayes26 17 hr ago +340
It takes a lot of nerve to claim that ballot measures like this are underhanded while simultaneously taking direct legislative action to redistrict in their own states.
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TheGoverness1998 16 hr ago +106
Yeah, ***I*** didn't get a f****** vote down here in Texas. At least VA voters got to choose what they preferred. But those people don't care about consistency or anything of that sort. It's about always keeping their grip on power firm.
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HyruleSmash855 17 hr ago +117
Without the voters too. It would be really funny if lawsuits shut down efforts like the Texas effort, although a Supreme Court stay means that that will be an effect for the 2026 midterms since the Supreme Court is expected to make a ruling in 2027 about that being legal or not
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Spire_Citron 15 hr ago +26
Really annoying that the supreme court will just intentionally let things like that stand and drag their feet on giving an opinion to get the outcome they want even when they know the legal basis is flimsy.
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Ric_Adbur 15 hr ago +22
"Annoying" doesn't remotely cover it. Infuriating is the word you're looking for, I think. The supreme court has been an illegitimate body since the Republicans held up Obama's justice appointment for over a *year* because suddenly "it's not proper for an outgoing president to appoint a justice" for the first time in the country's history. Then they shove through an appointment under Trump with like a month left on *his* term. An institution with justices appointed in such a brazenly unequal manner is nothing but a f****** kangaroo court.
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HyruleSmash855 15 hr ago +12
I agree. They’re using the shadow docket too, so they don’t have any explanation and just forced district courts to figure things out with one paragraph of text and no explanation for any of their orders. It stabilizes the justice system that relies on precedent since the Supreme Court just making stuff up along the way without any explanation, meaning there’s no precedent or reason that the court system needs to function. Just another failing institution in the country that Trump has helped accelerate the fall of with his appointments, although this issue has everything to do with Robert’s who pushed the Supreme Court to adopt the shadow docket when he wanted to just block the Obama executive order on emissions for power plants so much. Look up the New York Times article there recently came out due to a leak of papers written by the justices about it. Alito and Thomas are the problem too, the deep rot in America’s institutions that Trump has worsened.
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MrTriangular 15 hr ago +4
Plus, if someone who isn't a Republican somehow gets into power, they can just yank back any shadow docket decisions to block off the power they've granted from being used without their say-so.
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AngledLuffa 16 hr ago +44
NextDoor in CA was crawling with people who would argue that No on 50 was the fair position, and we needed to be fair no matter what Rs around the country were doing. Every single time, if you scratched them just a little, you'd find a Trump supporter underneath. "What's wrong with the Republican agenda?" was a common response
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Corka 16 hr ago +30
The modern day GOP and conservative media machine is incredibly shameless. The basic playbook is to never accept or admit any kind of fault for anything and instead continually criticise democrats for anything they do (and for some things they didn't do), and to abuse any bit of authority they have to gain political advantage. Doesn't matter how hypocritical it is to do so, doesn't matter whether what they are claiming is factual, and it sure as shit doesn't matter to them if they f*** a whole lot of people over so long as they win and democrats lose. The most insane thing? Plenty of their voters have the exact same mindset and will cheer this bullshit on even though they aren't getting anything out of it.
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_you_are_the_problem 16 hr ago +8
Nerve is only relevant when there’s a standing social contract. The regressives in this country want to see the rest of us dead or enslaved, literally, so we’re well past things like nerve and shame. They are the enemy of all that is good in society, make no mistake about that.
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explosivekyushu 15 hr ago +1
yeah it's almost like republicans have literally no standards other than uncontrolled hypocrisy
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ImperfectRegulator 14 hr ago +1
But but but that’s cause the demorats states have it in there constitution /s ^a nonsensical argument I see a lot, because not only do the democrats let the people vote on such measures, they have restrictions and guardrails in place as well. Something that can’t be said for red states like Texas
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razor21792 17 hr ago +21
And essentially beating them at their own game.
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Oceanbreeze871 17 hr ago +47
“The voters voted for it but unfair!”
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cinnamonspiderr 16 hr ago +14
Lol the mental gymnastics they’re using are Olympic class. They seriously are blaming the wording of the ballot because it used the word “fair” and that’s unfair apparently.
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TheGoverness1998 16 hr ago +12
Ironic, considering the pro-NO vote was deliberately trying to confuse a ton of voters by putting out misleading material.
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GoldandBlue 15 hr ago +3
The voters that approved this are the "wrong kind" of voters obviously
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Zodi88 13 hr ago +2
Give them a break, they're not used to listening to their constituents.
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NULLizm 16 hr ago +11
They really thought that local dems are as spineless as national dems. Huge miscalculation on their part.
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stemfish 15 hr ago +2
When thr GOP sued to block California, the Supreme Court said it's up to the state for now and declined to issue an injunction. So best of luck to their legal team.
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Batman_Shirt 17 hr ago +40
There is still the Virginia Supreme Court to go through…. Here’s what the AP says ([from here](https://apnews.com/article/virginia-redistricting-election-congress-trump-78e0e68100119011b1b439634f6b6fa1)): “The constitutional amendment narrowly backed by voters bypasses a bipartisan redistricting commission to allow the use of new districts drawn by Virginia’s Democratic-led General Assembly. But the public vote may not be the final word. The state Supreme Court is considering whether the plan is illegal in a case that could make the referendum results meaningless. In 2020, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment meant to diminish political gamesmanship by shifting redistricting responsibilities away from the legislature. But lawmakers endorsed a new constitutional amendment allowing mid-decade redistricting last fall, then passed it again in January as part of a two-step process that requires an intervening election in order for an amendment to be placed on the ballot. The measure allows lawmakers to redistrict until returning the task to a bipartisan commission after the 2030 census. In February, they passed a new U.S. House map to take effect pending the outcome of the redistricting referendum. Republicans have filed multiple legal challenges against the redistricting effort. A Tazewell County judge ruled that the redistricting push was illegal for several reasons. Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley Jr. said lawmakers failed to follow their own rules for adding the redistricting amendment to a special session. He ruled that their initial vote failed to occur before the public began casting ballots in last year’s general election and thus didn’t count toward the two-step process. And he ruled that the state failed to publish the amendment three months before that election, as required by law. If the state Supreme Court agrees with the lower court, the referendum results could be rendered moot.” This AP graph tells the story: https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/virginia-special-general-results-question-1/ Basically, city vs. country. Same old story. FFS, vote people!
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WallyMcBeetus 17 hr ago +327
Letting the voters decide on it, unlike Republican efforts.
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theLULRUS 16 hr ago +66
Yeah I don't like gerrymandering, but at least the Democrats let their electorate vote on it. And I'm glad they're sacking up to fight the fascist's fire with fire. Not really surprising the Republicans just force it through. The party lead by rapists, pedophiles, and nazis don't really care about consent.
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bianary 16 hr ago +7
> And I'm glad they're sacking up to fight the fascist's fire with fire. Only about two decades after the horses got out, the Democrats are closing the barn doors!
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the_moosen 16 hr ago +28
Bout time dems start doing the same thing republicans have been, f*** the high road
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Bravo-Five 15 hr ago +9
Getting rid of districts would fix all of this
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TightSea8153 17 hr ago +93
This is a good start but Democrats need to go full balls to the wall if they win back seats. No more bipartisan bullshit that they love to do. If they dont then the GOP and the rest of the oligarchs are gona win again.
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FreeUsePolyDaddy 17 hr ago +24
Absolutely. The Dem party isn't perfect but the GOP has made up so much insane bullshit over the years, they need to see what it would be like if the Dems just decided to own what they will be tarred with anyway.
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IrishRage42 16 hr ago +6
I hope we see a Dem president in '28 with control of Congress as well. They go do all the same shit Trump is doing except to actually help people. Maybe they can reverse psychology the Republicans into passing laws to prevent the insane overreach of the executive in the future.
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Nayko214 17 hr ago +143
Good. Republicans want to brazenly tip the scales in some states then it’s only fair Dems do it back. F*** em.
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sargonas 17 hr ago +91
The best part is Trump just calls up these states and they just unilaterally do it for him… Virginia and California issues ask their citizens to vote on it and they are the ones deciding by majority to enact it… Which is just better in every sense of the imagination.
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Lknate 17 hr ago +29
Best part is Dems are actually letting voter decide and winning.
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RockPaperOwFire 17 hr ago +10
I agree. The fact that it’s temporary also speaks volumes. It doesn’t have to be this way, but republicans started it. It’s literally the only way to make sure that democracy is at least semi safe.
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mOdQuArK 11 hr ago
Ideally, the way they are trying to tip those scales (voter suppression, ridiculous levels of gerrymandering) should be outright illegal & they should be punished for trying, but in the absence of that, we're going to have to end up using fire to fight fire.
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EndlesslyCynicalBoi 16 hr ago +12
Until there's a fair, impartial federal law on districting, I say getting in the mud with them is the way to go.
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Ocean-of-Mirrors 15 hr ago +8
Texas did it first. If you’re upset go blame those politicians.
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Sideos385 17 hr ago +17
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” - Karl Popper
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ItsMetheDeepState 16 hr ago +6
This might move the needle on accountability, but the bigger issue is still gerrymandering. Reform efforts have been tried and blocked, specifically by Republicans in Congress. Conservatives cycle in and out of power, but if the maps stay rigged, the structural advantage just keeps compounding. That's exactly where oligarchs thrive: safe seats, weak opposition, no real accountability to voters. Fix the framework or we're just treating symptoms. If we ever get real accountability, I hope that's also when we tear down the gerrymandered system that's made this managed democracy.
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RPG_Vancouver 17 hr ago +45
Nice. Good counterweight to the insane gerrymanders Republicans have been ramming through against the will of the people
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count023 17 hr ago +17
And the best part is. Republicans have maxed their gains form gerrymandering the last 50 years. Democrat run states are usually running independent or resobavle election maps, so this will backfire very heavily on republicans if more blue states gerrymander now
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timhottens 16 hr ago +2
They're trying to gain 4 more seats in Florida right now. No referendum of course.
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GVArcian 16 hr ago +11
GOP: *cheats* Dems: *also cheats* GOP: Hey! That's cheating!
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heartlandthunder 17 hr ago +12
Lol. I love it when a plan blows up in a bunch of assholes faces.
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nfstern 17 hr ago +1
Let's hope it works out that way.
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go_faster1 16 hr ago +2
I was worried about this because, when I first looked, it seemed like they were rejecting it.
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verlierer 15 hr ago +3
I'm kind of surprised it was this close given the Trump administration's attacks on the federal workforce. (Many of whom live in northern Virginia)
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Malaix 14 hr ago +1
I suspect a lot of left/lib people are still willing to fall on the sword and die so the most stupid evil people in the world can have the option to throw the planet into a new dark age every 4 years because some Russian bots told them trans people want to convert their kids or some dumb c***.
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funtimes-forall 13 hr ago +2
Remind me, did Texas ever put this to the voters or did the Texas Republicans just do it?
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Kakamile 11 hr ago +1
They rushed it, then got pissed at dems having a vote to do it conditionally if gop does it.
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Lenny0mega 17 hr ago +6
Good, maybe the VA Republicans can stop spamming my phone now, especially since I don't even live in the US, let alone Virginia.
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barktwiggs 16 hr ago +2
The richmond politicians are rigging the maps and disenfranchising minorities. Riiiiight. I guess in VA republicans are technically minorities now.
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Lenny0mega 15 hr ago +2
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
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barktwiggs 14 hr ago +1
I am just parroting what the election spam was telling me for the past 2 weeks and attempting snide commentary. No matter. Issue is settled.
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Lenny0mega 9 hr ago +2
But why?  My comment was about robocalling…
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xXGray_WolfXx 17 hr ago +6
Maybe Republicans now will finally agree to get rid of gerrymandering!
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FabulousLazarus 17 hr ago +6
Republicans started this mid century Gerry meandering. Remember that when they get their shit pushed in in November from losing scores of districts that couldn't afford to have their lines redrawn. The polling is literally as bad as possible for these f****** asshats. They drew the lines based on the 2024 election results when the polling was basically as good as possible. That means that they redrew district lines they thought were safe but no longer aren't. Not only is the gerrymandering helping the Dems for obvious reasons, hence the post, but it's also actually hurting Republicans; because they didn't get the gerrymandering they thought they would (lol at Texas) AND the gerrymandering that they did do is going to blow up in their faces.
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yo2sense 17 hr ago +5
The voters have had their say. Now lets see if our unelected Supreme Legislature will allow it to stand.
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HobbesNJ 17 hr ago +11
This Supreme Court makes up the rules as they go, but... They had a chance to nip this in the bud in previous gerrymandering cases that benefitted Republicans and they sanctioned them instead. They shouldn't have an issue with this.
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yo2sense 17 hr ago +1
Control of the House affects them much less directly as control of the Senate.
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like-blood-on-white 17 hr ago -1
I think they will. Still, I am happy that our governor put this to a vote. 🗳️
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bwoah07_gp2 17 hr ago +6
I hate the gerrymandering from both parties
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MSERRADAred 17 hr ago +26
Democrats tried to remove gerrymandering, but GOP refused & has taken it to a new level under Trump. There's no longer a choice but to counteract the GOP actions in the only ways open to us.
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bwoah07_gp2 17 hr ago +7
Yeah, I know. Eventually they've gotta fight fire with fire, democratically....
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Redhotkitchen 12 hr ago
The voters of Virginia agreed to it. Sounds pretty democratic to me.
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Realtrain 15 hr ago +3
I agree, and I hope the fact that Democratic-leaning states begrudgingly had to vote in favor of this to balance out the Republican-leaning states that started it means we'll see some strong push for federal legislation against partisan gerrymandering.
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Vin-diesels-left-nut 17 hr ago +3
Things I find funny ….. #1 not from the USA so don’t care either way. #2 my twitter feed was screaming about turning the state red and saving democracy, #3 it went blue and I knew it would happen. I’ve learned whatever I see/or gets pushed to my twitter the opposite always happens. It’s kinda a fun thing to witness over and over
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FunOwn4422 17 hr ago +1
november cant come soon enough lets show them whats the 25th is all about!
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Sweatytubesock 16 hr ago +3
F*** you, Trump, you fatassed criminal f***.
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WelpSigh 17 hr ago +1
Not too long ago, Republicans were arguing that Democrats were the REAL gerrymandering party and that the GOP could easily win a redistricting war as they had so much slack. Here we are now, with Democrats firmly ahead. The only bullet they have left is Florida, which is already quite gerrymandered and would probably end up as a dummymander. I would suggest, quite simply, not starting a fight you can't win. And if this upsets you - know that federal Democrats would be very happy to do a nationwide partisan gerrymander ban, should you ever come around. We'll be waiting.
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Federal_Studio5935 17 hr ago -4
Ahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahashhahaahahajahah How’s picking up a few seats looking Trump?
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NefariousnessFew4354 17 hr ago +5
Don't get too happy, Florida is going to the same thing.
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Malaix 12 hr ago +2
The problem for Republicans is Gerrymandering has limits and Trump has tanked GOP polling. Especially among young and Latino voters. If you gerrymander wrong it becomes a dummymander. Where you basically spread your voters so thin you lose seats instead of gain. This is especially the case if you say, won an election like 2024 with gains from specific groups that you then burn all favor with, like latinos and young people, within the span of 2 years. If Republicans gerrymander Florida using the wrong data they could lose seats. At best the gerrymander might just get overwhelmed by sheer anti-trump vote volume.
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heyhey922 17 hr ago +3
Florida would is gonna have to take quite a risk to match Virginia, especially with shift in Latino vote since the election. Also it's unclear if mid decade gerrymandering is allowed as a referendum was passed about changing boundaries to benefit a single party.
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Luckydog12 9 hr ago +1
Haha f*** you cheaters.
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freedfg 17 hr ago -4
Get absolutely f****** blown out.
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VrLights 16 hr ago +1
Bro can we just ban this?
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rjcade 15 hr ago +14
Republicans keep blocking attempts to do just that
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explosiv_skull 13 hr ago +1
Hilarious to see conservatives bitching about it now after Trump started all this with Texas. Even more hilarious them bitching about "I guess this is what Democrats call democracy..." when every single "red" redistricting plan as been carried out without an up or down ballot measure or vote by the people and both California and Virginia at least the people got to vote on.
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SnarkyPuppy-0417 10 hr ago +1
Good to see Democrats beginning to put in work.
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Hour_Flatworm3616 13 hr ago +1
What Texas is doing is not just state politics. It affects all of the states. To do nothing is absurd.
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RobutNotRobot 11 hr ago +1
This is a pretty big deal because Republicans have been gerrymandering in every state they control that can be gerrymandered. They will also soon get a Supreme Court ruling that will let them destroy all of their black and brown majority districts in states they control.
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amir_csharp_gtr 13 hr ago -3
Gerrymandering is bad, regardless of who does it.
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Kakamile 11 hr ago +1
if you feel like that, tell the gop to agree to the national gerrymandering bans dems offered.
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Malaix 12 hr ago +1
What if it literally saves thousands of lives and prevents national or global disaster because the dumbest most evil people get gerrymandered out of electoral power?
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Training-Purple-5220 16 hr ago -19
Anyone who actually looks at the map Dems are proposing knows it’s ridiculous, designed specifically to use parts of the DC suburbs to override the entire rest of the state.
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led76 16 hr ago +34
That’s the whole point of gerrymandering. If we all think it sucks we need to outlaw across the board
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shadowboxer47 16 hr ago +16
>Anyone who actually looks at the map Dems are proposing knows it’s ridiculous, designed specifically to use parts of the DC suburbs to override the entire rest of the state. Yeah, that's what gerrymandering is. **Duh.**
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SilentHuntah 15 hr ago +13
> Anyone who actually looks at the map Dems are proposing knows it’s ridiculous, designed specifically to use parts of the DC suburbs to override the entire rest of the state. If it upsets you so much, maybe next time you should support laws that favor neither side instead of learning shit the hard way a-la FAFO.
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Shady_bookworm51 16 hr ago +17
So exactly what conservatives do in other states? is that suddenly not ok anymore?
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Der_Erlkonig 14 hr ago +5
Go and b**** to Greg Abbott and the Texas state legislature if it upsets you that much then. They're the ones that started this in the first place. The only reason republicans are whining about this outcome is because they're getting a taste of their own medicine.
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IllustriousClerk4156 16 hr ago +16
and texas and missouri and NC right next door? that’s fine though ofc because God emperor daddy trump says those states can and should gerrymander 
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Malaix 12 hr ago +1
It was never meant to be fair. This is a countermeasure to the GOP gerrymandering to cheat the midterms.
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iKhAoTiKK 16 hr ago -17
We love Gerrymandering now!
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dThink_Ahea 15 hr ago +19
You guys have been doing it for decades so we figured we'd give it a try. Is that okay?
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ojncereal 15 hr ago -15
So you guys are cool with gerrymandering as long as its democrats doing it?
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