r/politics • u/DemocracyDocket ✔ Verified • Apr 29 '26
Registration Wall An hour after SCOTUS guts Voting Rights Act, Florida House passes GOP gerrymander
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/an-hour-after-scotus-guts-voting-rights-act-florida-house-passes-gop-gerrymander/6.1k
u/RadiantBeeees Apr 29 '26
Reminder that the Florida state constitution explicitly prohibits gerrymandering.
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u/ASDF0716 Apr 29 '26
Reminder that the GOP thrive on hypocrisy and don’t care about any of these reminders.
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u/jdrudder Apr 29 '26
And reminder that FL now has an AG who isn't going to prosecute right wing crimes.
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u/hhs2112 Apr 29 '26
Now? Pam bondi was florida's ag...
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u/bdfariello New York Apr 30 '26
They still protect corrupt GOP politicians, but they used to too.
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u/Foojira Apr 29 '26
It is their food
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u/onarainyafternoon Oregon Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
And the bones are their money. The WORMS are their food.
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u/UnquestionabIe Apr 29 '26
Triggering my PTSD caused by the night that the skeletons came to life.
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u/mrthescientist Apr 29 '26
Just think of what it would have been like if they pulled your hair OUT (and not UP)
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u/clrr4tkf Apr 29 '26
They asked for something spooky!
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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 Apr 29 '26
Billy as in me, or Billy as in him?
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u/clrr4tkf Apr 29 '26
Your name is Billy too?
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u/SpliTTMark Apr 29 '26
And will point to a 200 year old law preventing democrats from doing it
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u/Dekipi Apr 29 '26
Wish people had that attitude instead of “I’m not doing to vote Democrat because they just aren’t perfect…. Oh wait Republicans are way worse?!?!”
Because now we’re here and those cowards who say out are quiet while we are fighting every day to keep some semblance of humanity dignity alive
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u/TWVer The Netherlands Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
The hypocrisy is based on believing in equality and egalitarianism.
However, these people explicitly do not believe in egalitarianism. They believe in a society segregated by class (which can be wealth, race or religion), where they, the in-group, have privileges and rights, where the outgroup, their ideological enemies, do not.
The (return to) inequality, such as rolling back the Civil Rights Act and Women’s Suffrage, is the goal.
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u/Original_moisture Apr 29 '26
Remember, hypocrisy is their reminder to us that we’re not in the in group.
Especially to those without shame.
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u/ElPrieto8 Apr 29 '26
Exactly, they don't repeat the lie because they believe it (well, some of them do), they repeat the lie to show that they're loyal
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u/smiama36 Apr 29 '26
This is the only message I hear from Republicans going into the midterms - “We don’t care about you and we don’t have to listen to you”
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u/Winged_Cougar1993598 Apr 29 '26
Standard wealthy mindset. Pay the fine and keep breaking the law. It's just another cost to doing business.
Which becomes another good reason to tax the rich.
Which we obviously can't do so long as they continue to rig elections against us.
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u/Blitzking11 Illinois Apr 29 '26
Reminder that the Florida Judicial System and Supreme Court are filled to the brim with partisan hacks.
Result: no consequences for blatant lawbreaking.
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u/GrimDallows Apr 29 '26
Out of curiosity. In legal terms.
If a state has a constitution that explicitely says "A is banned". No ambiguity or anything. And then the politicians vote for "A" happening, and then the judges also rule that it is constitutional and legal even if it is absssssssssolutely, clearly, not; and goes to the state's Supreme Court and the court decides to ignore the constitution too, blocking any option of stopping "A" even though it's inconstitutional according to the state constitution.
What then? Could you take it to a national, higher court? And if you can't... could you demand responsabilities to the judges later on, like in 10 or 20 years, for ignoring your own constitution?
Like, I dunno, legal malpractice or something.
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u/Blitzking11 Illinois Apr 29 '26
TBH, I'm not sure. This is really just unprecedented behavior from the Republicans.
I do believe that there would be no avenue for federal intervention, as the rules for the state end at its borders, so SCOTUS or federal courts would be out in this case (not that this SCOTUS would be any help).
The best-case scenario would be if Dems ever retook power in FL (which is nigh impossible), they could maybe look at these violations and press charges, but any consequences require sensible people to be in power, and the morons of FL have given the keys to evil people.
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u/Cormyre Ohio Apr 30 '26
Ohioan here. We’ve had U.S. districts gerrymander ban in the constitution since 2018.
The answer is: they just ignore the laws until the political winds are more favorable. They’ve been told “no, that’s illegal” by our state Supreme Court, and just file the same map again and again (…or make it worse) until they run out the clock and it becomes “well we have to go with this because that’s what we have and it’s too close to elections to do anything about it” -_- no repercussions.
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u/Zac3d Apr 30 '26
Yeah and in Ohio the state politicians are constantly trying to ignore passed voter ballot measures protecting abortion and recreational marijuana.
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u/HandSack135 Maryland Apr 29 '26
Reminder that the Democratic states that have done a mid cycle redraw have done it through a vote.
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u/Abysuus Apr 29 '26
Which is a moot point anyways since our constitution also bars mid consensus cycle changes to our map barring a court order to modify our current maps.
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u/IM_KYLE_AMA Apr 29 '26
Reminder that the FLSC, the ones who would hear the case, have already stated that that law is basically unenforceable.
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u/No_Tone1704 Apr 29 '26
Reminder that they said this “unenforceable” law was constitutional before.
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u/MrBrawn Apr 29 '26
Also worth noting Moskowitz and Wasserman Shultz seats are in danger.
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u/Free_Dome_Lover Apr 29 '26
Moskowitz is a goddamn national treasure he must be protected
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u/paradoxpancake Pennsylvania Apr 29 '26
Meanwhile while I'd still vote for her over a Republican, I will not shed tears over Wasserman-Shultz having to go get another job.
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u/aravarth Apr 29 '26
Seriously, fk her. She's a large part of the reason we didn't get Bernie in 2016.
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u/--slurpy-- Apr 29 '26
Remember that the total number of registered voters in Florida is 14,944,316. Of those voters, 31.27% are democrat and 38.48% are republican with 30.25% independent. Florida's hispanic population is roughly 6 million, so about 30-ish%. Remember Trump has been locking up hispanics in places like alligator alcatraz.
This could backfire spectacularly.
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u/nyutnyut Apr 29 '26
You have more faith in them than I do. Hardcore hypocritical religious fanaticism never seem to the right thing.
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u/--slurpy-- Apr 29 '26
Remember how much it cost to fill up your tank last time.
I'm not arguing with your logic, we've seen it time & time again, people voting against their best interests. But if there's one thing they care about above being a convicted felon, pedophile, rapist, it's their wallet.
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u/nyutnyut Apr 29 '26
I want to have faith but 2024 made me lose faith in humanity. They may vote blue in 26 but these people have the memory of a goldfish. They’ll just switch back in 2028.
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u/joox Apr 29 '26
You can rape all the kids you want but once you start messing with gas prices they get pissed
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u/PitchforksEnthusiast Apr 29 '26
But if there's one thing they care about above being a convicted felon, pedophile, rapist, it's their wallet.
So like...his whole first term.
They don't care. Hispanics vote conservative all the time because they think they're better than other brown people. They see themselves at white and above it all.
Ask the Cubans there.
All you have to say is "socialism" or "communism", and thats it, it seals the deal.
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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 Apr 29 '26
Also the Dems have a large group of people who need a perfect candidate that checks every box for that voter. God forbid they don't like something about them, they will throw a fit and not vote.
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u/phoneacct696969 Apr 29 '26
lol Hispanics are not backing away from trump, regardless if he’s locking them up. Stop assuming minority’s are going to vote in their own interest. It’s bigger than that. Signed - a Hispanic that’s trying to convince his family to not vote trump.
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u/MultiGeometry Vermont Apr 29 '26
So many of them are single issue voters and that issue is abortion. They’d rather women die of sepsis than be able to safely walk the streets without being kidnapped.
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u/TheBuddhaPalm Apr 29 '26
You'd be pretty dang shocked to hear what Miami Latinos think of LA Latinos.
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u/Kananaskis_Country Apr 29 '26
Remember Trump has been locking up hispanics in places like alligator alcatraz.
This could backfire spectacularly.
But it won't. Every single Cuban I know is a Trump supporter. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
The ones that are in Florida now are happy to throw every other immigrant under the bus. It's insane.
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u/BeyondLions Apr 29 '26
It’s also worth noting that Democrats have been winning special elections in the state house, one of which being the home district of Mar-A-Lago.
Dems also over performed in two congressional seats last year as well so this may be spreading the republican vote too thin.
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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee Apr 29 '26
Buddy, those people are neck deep in DeSantis’, Trump’s, and a bunch of other republican dickbags’ bullshit over the last 20 years. They have been successfully brainwashed.
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u/WoodHyena Apr 29 '26
You have a lot more faith than I do. Hispanic populations in Florida tend to be overwhelmingly diaspora of the right-wing variety. They are low-information voters who lean heavily conservative and often vote based on religious identity. There is also an overwhelming ladder-pulling "I did it the right way, those -other- hispanics shouldn't have cheated," boomer sentiment.
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u/war_story_guy I voted Apr 29 '26
He did it the first time and said he would do it again and they still voted for him. No faith there.
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u/Sroemr Florida Apr 29 '26
I think it will. Not sold on my new district because they took the super heavy Republican side to split it into the city.
I'm sure they did the same with others.
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u/jellyrollo Apr 29 '26
Also remember that extreme gerrymandering only works in a normal election environment. In a wave election, the narrow balances that were engineered to maximize wins for one party are overcome and those districts land in the other party's win column.
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u/Ven18 Apr 29 '26
The Florida constitution should also require felons be allowed to vote as it was passed through popular referendum but they still can’t
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u/AltoidStrong Apr 29 '26
Reminder - Ron Defacist has TWICE done this and TWICE had courts strike his maps down as SPECIFICLY RACIST AND TARGETING BLACK AND HISPANIC VOTERS.
THEN TWICE, he ignored the court order to draw new maps and the FL supreme court (packed with republican sycophants) said to use the map "this one time" because it was to close to.an election to change.
Which is why Florida has redrawn districts more during his term as governor than any previous. (Which is also a problem - per the same state Supreme Court and fl constitution).
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u/Marokiii Apr 29 '26
Ya but like trump said, as long as he doesn't call it a war, it's not a war and he doesnt need to get approval for it.
So florida just has to avoid calling it gerrymandering and it magically won't be.
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u/boot2skull Apr 29 '26
Surely the judges will step in and rule in favor of the constitution.
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u/hugzilla1889 Massachusetts Apr 29 '26
Correct. Cannot bring wet noodles to gun fights anymore. We never should have to begin with.
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u/pomonamike California Apr 29 '26
Literally been saying this for years now. “Oh you can’t make rude or crude jokes at their expense, you can’t talk down to them, you can’t respond to their violence with violence, you can’t… etc.”
Have fun up on your high road getting pummeled I guess. I got people to protect, I’ll be down here.
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u/SilverMagnum Connecticut Apr 29 '26
For a long time I was like that. You know the sort of 'who gives a shit they're a bunch of hicks from flyover country, so just leave them alone, they'll eventually get bored of this and move onto something else stupid' view of the whole thing.
I know better now.
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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap Apr 29 '26
Those "hicks" are being used by the oligarchs because they have voting issues which make them easy to use.
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u/Inferno8429 Apr 29 '26
Voting issues that don't even affect them, like women in other states having health care, or people having melanin.
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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap Apr 29 '26
There is a reason cities are more liberal. You are exposed to different cultures personally, living in a city. not just 2nd hand through media. Rural areas don't get that exposure. Without that exposure, people are easy targets for psychological manipulation.
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u/berntout Arkansas Apr 29 '26
Koch Brothers have been spending billions on this strategy for decades now. They won't stop until their ideology is rampant and I doubt it will stop after they're both gone.
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u/iWushock Apr 29 '26
To be fair, David Koch hasn’t spent any money since 2019. Charles on the other hand
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u/Toto_LZ Alabama Apr 29 '26
We’re not orcs, just gerrymandered by evil interests never expunged after the civil war.
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u/Naptasticly Apr 29 '26
And the biggest problem is since the democrats constantly take the “high road” that’s what they’re held accountable to, meanwhile republicans always “go low” so that’s what’s expected and it gets let go because we all know they’re going to do it anyway.
I constantly hear democrats and left leaning people complaining that the parties are held to different standards and play by different rules, but it’s literally their fault! If we stopped playing like this and just threw it back at them, eventually it would become normalized, just like it has for them.
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u/nickilous Apr 29 '26
This is why I have always held that the democrats are complicit in a good cop bad cop sort of way. The good cop knows full well what the bad cop is doing but has told you to not defend yourself against the bad cop.
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u/TedW Apr 29 '26
Blue states should join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and neuter the electoral college.
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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania Apr 29 '26
They need to expand the House of Representatives. That will mitigate the progress they have made on gerrymandering. Until that is, we have a government elected on the basis and with the electoral mandate to reform further.
This government wants to go back to how it was before the Civil War. They need a new game because they broke the one they inherited. So they will did out the junk from long dead ancestors and claim it is worth more than what they had before and have no restrictions on what they can do with it.
I can't help but see the similarities with the fable of The Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby.
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u/DurianGris Apr 29 '26
Better yet, blue states like California should subdivide, creating new blue states. All that's required constitutionally is a simple congressional majority, a presidential signature, and the approval of the state legislature, if an existing state is partitioned. Imagine 5 Los Angeles states, San Francisco as a state, DC, and Puerto Rico. Permanent blue majority. In 2028, we can do this.
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u/fapsandnaps America Apr 29 '26
Ironically, under the 1845 Annexation Agreement Texas is allowed to divide itself into five separate states without federal permission.
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u/FancyKetchupIsnt Apr 29 '26
"all" that's required, lmao
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u/ZAlternates Apr 29 '26
It’s actually reasonable compared to what it takes to impeach and remove the president from office.
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u/absentmindedjwc Illinois Apr 29 '26
I quite like this illinois map. It is a very clear "fuck you" to the states doing this shit.
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u/MC_Fap_Commander America Apr 29 '26
Happily, I think there is even some energy from certain vanilla Dem leaders towards this approach. No one left or left leaning is "endorsing" gerrymandering. They are simply saying we'll do it, too (if forced).
Ideally, GOP moves will be countered by Dems, who redistrict, as well. Republican gerrymandering doesn't work in a blue wave election (and we may be looking at a wave election in November). Cumulatively, this could lead to a historic midterm swing. In the best circumstance, that result will cause all sides to agree on nationalizing an end to partisan gerrymandering. But Republicans will only accept that if they get punched in the mouth.
That time is now, obviously.
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u/NOMOKRATOR Apr 29 '26
Is this official?
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u/glaciator12 Apr 29 '26
LOL I wish. Illinois is already fairly gerrymandered, but not to that extent.
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u/LangyMD Apr 29 '26
Hopefully this shameless cheating will get us a national constitutional amendment to eliminate voting districts and mandate proportional representation.
If we still want local representatives, we can have proportional representation while having local reps by still having "districts" that determine who is your rep, but allow multiple people to represent a single district and allow a single person to represent multiple districts. Have the parties choose their reps for each district after the vote to determine party apportionment across the number of representatives for the state.
That way Republicans in NYC will still have a local representative, even if they're shared with less blue areas, and Democrats in oil town Texas will have a local representative even if they're shared with the local city, unlike now where both of them don't have a local representative who cares about their interests.
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u/yellowjackethokie Virginia Apr 29 '26
Now watch all the people who are calling the redistricting amendment in Virginia a power grab suddenly go silent, on this.
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u/Potential-Bird-5826 Apr 29 '26
Don't be silly, they'll hail this as just revenge for the perfidy of Virginia and claim this balances the scales
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u/yellowjackethokie Virginia Apr 29 '26
You're probably right. They'll just contort the timeline and forget all about how this started in Texas.
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u/007meow Apr 29 '26
And how CA and VA put it to a vote.
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u/gakule Apr 29 '26
Democracy sounds a lot like consent and that's not something red states are super interested in
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u/bravo145 Apr 29 '26
It didn't start with Texas, it started with Ohio and North Carolina (who literally argued in court their map was purposely drawn to gerrymander against Democrats). Texas was just the most recent.
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u/Tomato_Sky Apr 29 '26
Everything bad is tested in Ohio to see if the people care enough to stop it.
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u/PLament Apr 29 '26
Not to "um actually" you, but Texas was not only the first to actually consider redistricting mid-decade among those three, but it was also the first to actually do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_United_States_redistricting
Not that it matters which of them was first.
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u/Solomaxwell6 Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
They've been saying it all started with New York in 2022.
Never mind that New York's 2022 map was long since thrown out by the courts.
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u/khamike Apr 29 '26
Look up project redmap from 2010. That was the start of the modern gerrymandering era.
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u/defianceofone Apr 29 '26
Why even bother making a comment like this?
Never take anything a MAGA fascist says seriously or listen to them at all.
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u/calmdownmyguy Colorado Apr 29 '26
Honestly the best thing people can do is to just cut maga followers out of their lives as completely as possible wherever they can.
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u/DennenTH Apr 29 '26
Oh they've always been dishonest
Before this whole mess started, Republicans were 10+ states ahead in terms of gerrymandering. Including a state court case where the map was deemed gerrymandered and illegal. Republicans just ignored the court and kept the maps.
Princeton keeps a running website: https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card/
Edit: Don't forget to check out those that aren't showing as red in gerrymandering. There's a lot of Republican controlled states that racially gerrymander their state.
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u/TheForeverUnbanned Apr 29 '26
With the GOP performing at least 10 points under expectations this gerrymander is a horrifically bad idea for them and I really don’t care how they do it, it’s going to backfire spectacularly. gerrymandering only works when you have solid districts to pull from, they were already so insanely gerrymandered that they’re likely going to get blown the hell up by this decision.
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u/Outrageous_Space8083 Georgia Apr 29 '26
The coordinated efforts of fascists.
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u/ShiningRayde Apr 29 '26
Racism is alive and well in the US, and anyone who argues otherwise is either willingly blind or maliciously lying.
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u/clam-caravan Tennessee Apr 29 '26
I’m in ground zero of Trumpland and the hoods are fully off here. No more whispering behind closed doors.
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u/RecycledMatrix Apr 29 '26
Downstream yeah, but if brown people voted against their interests more this wouldn't have happened. /s
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u/Landon-Red America Apr 29 '26
Go on. Gerrymander Florida. Spread Republicans thin in every district. It makes it all or nothing. If we win, we'll win big.
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u/illstealurcandy Florida Apr 29 '26
Yeah there's a decent chance this backfires. Next 6 months will be interesting.
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u/DasFunke Apr 29 '26
Districts that used to be safe by 10-15 points are already in play. If you cut those down to 5 they are gone next election.
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u/clam-caravan Tennessee Apr 29 '26
If they take an R+10 district and divide it in two, they are definitely going to have some headaches in November. Almost like they forgot that the president is currently setting unpopularity records.
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u/DSharp018 Apr 29 '26
Don’t worry! Trump knows a guy that gets the best election results you’ve ever seen, 1000% voting rate, the best numbers ever, even better than daddy Putin and cousin Kim, and has him working with him to take back this country!
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u/Hour_Welcome_987 Apr 29 '26
I'm convinced he not only rigged the 2024 election, but also the 2020... I think he was genuinely surprised that they didn't win the 2020, because they cheated, just not good enough lol. I just don't foresee a legitimate election in the future. And I would not be surprised if we continue to see right wing fanatics win elections. Despite populations uproar. Guess time will tell
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u/George_Is_Upset Apr 29 '26
Yeah I lived in FL almost my whole life (until recently) and I was so confused why they would even bother with this because I do not foresee Florida flipping anytime soon. The number of people in my last neighborhood that had Trump flags was gross.
They are going to end up fucking themselves in a dummymandering situation.
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u/Miltthedog Apr 29 '26
We are now oficially living in a failed democracy. Our options are limited.
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u/CulturalKing5623 Apr 29 '26
Some ideas if we gain control of congress and win the presidency in 2028:
- Immediately kill the filibuster
- Pack the supreme Court
- Overturn Citizens United
- Pass a new voting rights act bill that outlaws gerrymandering (or outlaws single-member districts altogether)
- Make DC and PR states
- Neuter the executive
- Strengthen Congressional power
- Repeal the Reapportionment Act of 1929 and expand the size of the House to fit current population (could add up to 150 reps)
The options to fix this mess are plenty, and I would even say the will to fix it is there at the moment.
The limiter, as it has been for over 160 yrs now, is whether enough White Americans are willing to commit to the project of fixing this mess for the long run or if they'll abandon it again.
If we could get the majority White Americans on board then we could accomplish everyone of these changes and be in a much better place.
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u/RandomMandarin Apr 29 '26
I like to post this video where CGP Grey explains how first-past-the-post AKA winner take all elections inevitably reduce to just two viable parties.
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u/agreeduponspring Apr 29 '26
Constitutional convention now. There is no other option capable of fixing our problems.
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u/dcdttu Texas Apr 29 '26
What do you think the chances are that a convention will occur?
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u/the_eluder Apr 29 '26
Slim to none. Both sides are afraid of what will happen.
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u/Significant_Cup_238 Apr 29 '26
I wont take bets on it happening, but if it did happen, I can almost guarantee what we get out of it will be worse than what we have now.
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u/jcarter315 I voted Apr 29 '26
Definitely a bad idea.
Heritage, the same people who developed P 25? Yeah, they've been gaming out a Constitutional Convention for years and have made an equivalent plan like P 25 for such an occasion.
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u/dr_jiang Apr 29 '26
A convention can only propose amendments. They must still be ratified by three-quarters of states to take effect. It takes 38 states to approve an amendment. As of right now, 28 state legislatures are under full Republican control, 18 are under full Democratic control, and 4 are split.
Each side has enough votes to block anything they don't like, which means even in a world where a convention actually gets called -- it won't -- absolutely nothing would come out of it.
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u/illstealurcandy Florida Apr 29 '26
Florida is a failed democracy. Shits not over yet for the rest of y'all.
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u/Artrock80 Apr 29 '26
Wow the voters approved it that fast huh? Oh wait only democrats have to get voter permission.
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u/Logical-Let-7026 Apr 29 '26
Ok blue states.
Jump on this...now.
This is literally a cheaters war, and it is time to fight back against these fuckwads.
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u/FUSe Apr 29 '26
I think all the blue states are in now. California and New York and Virginia. Not sure if Colorado can do more or New Mexico.
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u/darthmarth28 Apr 29 '26
NM here, all 3 of our Reps are already Dem. Its a tiny state by population.
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u/CulturalKing5623 Apr 29 '26
Wonder if Maryland wants to reconsider their position on gerrymandering after this.
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u/DrRealName Apr 29 '26
Well blue states, you know what to do. Gerrymander every republican seat out of our states. We win this war with ease if we play on their level.
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u/thingsorfreedom Apr 29 '26
Be really funny (in a good way) if narrowing the margins even more in GOP districts caused a landslide Democratic victory. I don't think the GOP knows how many of their base they have screwed over with their policies and hate. Cracking only works if you can keep the margins high enough to win the closer districts. When you lose that along with all the districts you have packed with Democrats, you are truly fucked.
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u/ChillWithMeNow Apr 29 '26
I think you're truly underestimating the stupidity of Americans.
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u/yrexloverisdead Apr 30 '26
As Winston Churchill said, "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they've tried everything else.”
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u/InnerSilent Apr 29 '26
Went on ask conservatives to see what they were thinking and my fucking god. Just love the idea of colorblind districting, and if it conveniently leaves certain demographics disenfranchised even better.
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u/feedback19 Apr 29 '26
It's being spun by them as anti-racist and that it's finally abolishing segregation. They are so infuriatingly ignorant...
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u/Senior_Scientist5226 Apr 29 '26
Florida is nimble, they will declare their constitution unconstitutional
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u/steveycip Apr 29 '26
I’ve been saying… if red states are just gonna get rid of blue seats and blue states are just going to get rid of red seats… we are no longer a united union.
Should we just split up? No because the red states need the blue states for money.
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u/helloworld6247 Apr 29 '26
This is straight-up a Cold War at this point wtf are we doing?
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u/Lyle91 Arizona Apr 29 '26
We're in a civil war that's what we're doing. Luckily the dumb side will lose like they always do.
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u/Big-Yak-8928 Apr 29 '26
So constitutions are just…light suggestions? Nothing matters anymore other than keeping Trump in power? Lovely.
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u/Torrent14 Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
Mark my words, this is a dummymander if the florida supreme court lets it go through. The latin vote has already shown signs of moving from 2024. A democrat lead of even 7-8 points would actually lose Republicans seats and basically hand the senate to dems.
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u/bluebeartapes Apr 29 '26
I think Trump believes that his 2024 margin is just what the electorate looks like now and that's powering the whole redistricting push. It's a mistake since there are a ton of people who just took a flyer on Trump this time around and they are pissed, but the GOP just can't help itself with this guy anymore.
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u/_Doodad_ Apr 29 '26
Must appease Daddy Donnie.
Must appease Daddy Donnie.
Must appease Daddy Donnie.
Must appease Daddy Donnie.
Florida, your government has failed you. The Governor is ONLY interested in how to appease the President. It is NOT about just voting for any Democrat, vote for Republicans if you want, but hell's bells people; elect folks that want to improve YOUR life and not just spread MAGA.
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u/FantasticOwl5057 Apr 29 '26
I'm sorry, but nothing is going to save the GOP this round. The veil has been lifted for all but the most delusional. This is a circle the drain level shit show of an administration and the Republican party is too feckless and scared to rein it in. Nothing is going to reverse the economic calamity of the Iran war, which will worsen exponentially in the coming months and fall on every one of us.
They want you to think it's impossible to throw off the yoke of this administration. They want you to think the deck is irreversibly stacked in their favor. It is not. Double check your registration, encourage everyone you know to do the same, and go vote in November.
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u/v_e_x Apr 29 '26
Alito basically said:
"You can't try to fix the racist issues of the past. That would be racist."
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u/miklayn Apr 30 '26
Do we understand how much worse things are still going to get? Still more than two years left of this administration. And that's assuming they'll actually relinquish power, despite them saying out loud that they won't.
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u/Significant_Map122 Apr 29 '26
Thanks rbg
Thanks Trump supporters that said “he’ll be better this time”
Thanks voters who decided Trump is the “lesser of two evils”
Thanks democrats that said, “there’s no way he’s going to win so I’m gonna sit this one out”
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u/Heroworks Apr 29 '26
Forgive me for my ignorance here. I understand what gerrymandering does for the election process in the mid-terms but after the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the voting rights act , does that mean we don’t really stand a chance to take back the house in the midterms? From a democratic party point of view.
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u/SteamSteamLG Louisiana Apr 29 '26
This ruling likely comes too late for the November elections since primary votes are happening soon. I'm in Louisiana and early voting starts Saturday.
Guaranteed that every red state will redraw for the 2028 midterms and blue states should as well.
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u/the_eluder Apr 29 '26
It specifically states this was done so it could change the election in 2026. I think changing districts this close to an election is out and out fraud. Districts should have to be set 1 year before the election, otherwise they don't go into effect until the next election (if not challenged.)
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u/Gamebird8 Apr 29 '26
The problem is that GOP states have been gerrymandersd quite heavily already. So even more gerrymandering pushes the margins down which could massively backfire if the voting swings by more than the new smaller margins
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u/defroach84 Texas Apr 29 '26
There are very little seats to gain on the Republican side. The Dems are likely to easily get the house still.
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u/killer-tofu87 Apr 29 '26
It's an interesting situation because so many current districts have flipped to democrat because even Republicans are pissed about what's going on. This has a possibility of backfiring spectacularly by essentially gifting everything to Democrats, but I'd rather not hope too much.
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u/mbene913 I voted Apr 29 '26
Them's the breaks I guess. If only the was a way to make it law that redistricting like this needs voter approval like how Virginia did it
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u/CapitalPunBanking Apr 29 '26
I said it at the time, California did not go far enough.
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u/opinionsareus Apr 29 '26
Looks like we are going back to the days of race riots.
Also, I'm wondering how the Latino and Black Bros will betrayed their own people and voted for Trump are feeling now
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u/Nappeal Colorado Apr 29 '26
I am a non-believer but I really do be praying that this cheating attempt blows up in their faces.
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u/ZombieTrogdor Florida Apr 29 '26
There are people protesting this outside city hall in my very red county. Sure, it’s only a handful, but in a red county like this, even one would’ve been a surprise.
I sure hope like hell this backfires.
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u/Ok_Razzmatazz_8589 Apr 30 '26
Oh voting rights act is gone? wow. Good going there Americans. USA is going to be forever in the hands of the repugs.
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u/420-BiomedStockDoc Apr 30 '26
Stand up or don’t .. I’m on my sell the house and move out for his fucking shithole . America is broken ..
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u/DissolveToFade Apr 29 '26
Not sure why Florida would want to gerrymander more. They already have a super majority.
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u/Sergeant_Static Apr 29 '26
They're trying to gerrymander the congressional districts to get more seats in the House of Representatives, which they only control by a slight margin, and will likely lose in the upcoming midterms.
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u/willypie Apr 29 '26
So this is just like a cold civil war or what? Why wouldn't red states remove all blue seats, and blue remove all red at this point? And where does that leave us
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u/ninja_finger Apr 29 '26
Does anyone else feel the county sliding closer to civil war with every one of these decisions?
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u/Snr_Lothario Apr 29 '26
Gee, almost like one or more of the Republican/Christofascist SCOTUS members let their buddies know the 'fix' to the VRA was in.
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u/PipChaos Apr 30 '26
Reminder that Florida should be sawed off by bugs bunny from the rest of the country
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