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fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

Letters: Voters should say no to the tyranny of the masses

Proposition 50 undermines minority protections and would further distort California representation by enabling partisan redistricting favoring Democrats.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Letters: Voters should say no to the tyranny of the masses

Proposition 50 would reshape California redistricting, raising concerns about minority protection, proportional representation, and responses to gerrymandering from other states.
#redistricting
fromTruthout
1 week ago
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Democrats Submit Bill Aimed at Limiting GOP's Mid-Census Gerrymandering Scheme

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fromThe Mercury News
2 weeks ago

Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Sen. Alex Padilla propose a bill to ban mid-cycle redistricting

The Redistricting Reform Act of 2025 would ban mid-decade redistricting and require nonpartisan independent commissions to draw congressional maps nationwide.
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fromwww.dailynews.com
2 weeks ago

Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Sen. Alex Padilla propose a bill to ban mid-cycle redistricting

A federal Redistricting Reform Act of 2025 would ban mid-decade redistricting except by court order and require nonpartisan independent commissions to draw congressional maps nationwide.
fromTruthout
1 week ago
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Democrats Submit Bill Aimed at Limiting GOP's Mid-Census Gerrymandering Scheme

fromwww.mercurynews.com
5 days ago

Letters: Proposed building heights would dwarf Five Wounds Church

Now, the city of San Jose is considering 300-foot-tall buildings immediately behind the church at the future 28th Street/Little Portugal BART station. Today, the General Plan calls for 120-foot-tall buildings there, something that was agreed to by the community and city planners in 2013. The church is a living symbol of immigrants who wanted to maintain a little piece of their homeland and their language through the celebration of their faith and life's milestones with their families, friends and fellow immigrants.
California
fromIntelligencer
1 week ago

Trump Is Tightening His Grip on State Republicans

As recently as the autumn of 2022, anti-Donald Trump (or at least non-Trump) Republicanism was alive and well in a good part of the country. Plenty of Republican politicians had deplored his conduct after losing the 2020 election and lived to tell the tale. Many blamed the former president for damaging the party's prospects in the 2022 midterm elections with ill-advised interventions in GOP primaries.
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fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

Letters: More important than cash, Prop. 50 has support of people

Widespread grassroots support dwarfs single-billionaire opposition, gerrymandering damages representatives and democracy, and Highway 4 urgently needs widening to reduce long commutes.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Letters: California isn't making the most of rooftop solar

All these programs, measures and laws concerning solar energy, specifically in California, will continue to fall short of the ultimate goal to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels and reduce the high cost of electricity for all of us. Also, the use of valuable land to install solar farms is not the best idea either. Like I've suggested before, every commercial and residential rooftop should be utilized in some type of state or federal program to place, at low cost to property owners, solar panels
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fromTruthout
1 week ago

Missouri GOP Gov. Kehoe Approves New Maps Likely to Strip Dems of House Seat in 2026

On Sunday, Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed into law a legislative redrawing of the state's congressional districts, a gerrymander that will likely result in one fewer Democratic representative in the state's delegation in the next midterm elections, despite no huge ideological shift among voters. The move is part of a broader national scheme, planned by President Donald Trump's political team in coordination with state governors and legislatures, to mitigate potential seat losses in the 2026 midterms.
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#california-redistricting
fromsfist.com
1 month ago
California

California Republicans Already Spending Millions on Mailers to Fight Newsom's Redistricting Ballot Measure

fromsfist.com
1 month ago
California

California Republicans Already Spending Millions on Mailers to Fight Newsom's Redistricting Ballot Measure

#gavin-newsom
fromsfist.com
2 weeks ago
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Newsom Goes on Colbert, Warns 'We Will Not Have an Election In 2028 Unless We Wake Up'

fromsfist.com
2 weeks ago
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Newsom Goes on Colbert, Warns 'We Will Not Have an Election In 2028 Unless We Wake Up'

#voting-rights
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Gaslighting, Gerrymandering, and Sanewashing

The English language is extraordinarily adaptable and our tongue friendly and receptive to innovation and creativity. Speakers of American English have welcomed words and coined new ones for accuracy and for fun. Colonialism played its role in this capacity, of course. For instance, 700 years of colonial rule in Ireland gave Americans bog, whiskey, hooligan, shenanigans, and smithereens. If you say heaps of in place of a lot, you got it from droll Australians.
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#california
fromIntelligencer
4 weeks ago

Talarico Senate Bid Gives New Hope to Texas Democrats

When Donald Trump ordered Texas Republicans to conduct a rare mid-decade gerrymander of U.S. House seats to help protect the GOP's fragile trifecta in the 2026 midterms, there may have been some private grumbling about the possibility the gambit would backfire by exposing some incumbents to a bit more competition. But more than likely, Trump was pushing on an open door.
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fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

California Republicans energized by their opposition to Newsom's redistricting special election

California Republicans united against Proposition 50, fearing it could cost them up to five U.S. House seats and endanger their already limited influence.
fromIntelligencer
1 month ago

Gavin Newsom's Responsible Retaliation Against Trump

The ability to retaliate against Donald Trump's power grabs and other outrages is a rare pleasure for Democrats, which is why Gavin Newsom's counter-gerrymandering effort in California is so wildly popular among Democrats. If Democrats can't stop Trump's egregious policies in Congress (and they really can't) and the U.S. Supreme Court is either enabling him or slow-walking efforts to rein him in (which it clearly is), then they need different arenas in which to contest his authoritarian ways.
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fromSan Jose Inside
1 month ago

Newsom Races to Rich Donors for Support in Redrawing Congressional District Maps

Democratic and Republican donors plan to raise up to $200 million in two months to influence a California ballot fight that could shape House control.
#high-speed-rail
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fromwww.twincities.com
1 month ago

Utah's congressional map must be redrawn now, judge rules

A judge ordered Utah lawmakers to immediately redraw congressional districts to meet voter-approved standards, rejecting claims the task cannot be completed before 2026.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Brownstein: Trump's efforts to tilt midterms is bigger than Texas redistricting

President Trump is attempting to centralize control over election administration to tilt electoral outcomes, threatening democratic processes whether successful or legally blocked.
#texas-redistricting
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Letters: Doing nothing about guns is no longer an option

More dead children, dead because they were shot by what we now know is the classic American mass shooter our uniquely native-born young person whose craziness, whose need to destroy, won't be contained because Republican legislators make sure he has access to assault weapons. Going to school has become one of the riskiest things a child can do. Why? Unbelievably, someone in America is today planning an assault on a school district that we won't identify until more children are dead.
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fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Letters: Doing nothing about guns is no longer an option

On Wednesday, we heard about another killing and wounding of children and adults as their Minneapolis school, Annunciation, began its school year at mass. More dead children, dead because they were shot by what we now know is the classic American mass shooter - our uniquely native-born young person whose craziness, whose need to destroy, won't be contained because Republican legislators make sure he has access to assault weapons.
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#redistricting-reform
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Republicans Rammed Through Their Texas Power Grab in the Trumpiest Manner Ever

It was midnight in the Texas Capitol, and everyone was waiting for Democratic Sen. Carol Alvarado. They wanted to know if she'd filibuster H.B. 4, the Donald Trump-pushed gerrymandering legislation that aims to gain five more Republican seats in the U.S. Congress. The state Senate had just reconvened after a three-hour dinner break called by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Alvarado, who'd filibustered for over 15 hours in opposition to a voter-suppression bill in 2021, was armed with comfortable sneakers,
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Wake Up Everybody!' Gavin Newsom Warns Trump Is Setting Up' To Stay in Power

He then revealed, for the first time, details of his private meeting with Trump at the White House, when Trump pointed out a painting of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only president to serve more than two terms: He showed me a painting. He said, Turn around.' And I said, Oh, there's FDR.' And I went, Of course.' And he goes, he said, What do you mean?' I said, I know exactly what you mean.' And then he went on and on about the third term.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

The Framers wanted the House closest to the people. Redistricting may undermine that

Mid-decade redistricting fights, sparked by Texas Republicans and countered by California Democrats, could reshape congressional control and weaken voter representation and the House's constitutional role.
#authoritarianism
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Let's Grow a Damn Spine': DNC Chair Tries to Rally Democrats to Stand Up and Fight' Trump

Now look, folks, I'm sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight. We cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore, Martin said, adding: We've got to stand up and fight. We're not going to have a hand tied behind our back anymore. Let's grow a damn spine and get in this fight, Democrats! LFG, that's right, Martin said, repeating a cheer from the crowd.
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