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fromwww.mediaite.com
4 days ago

CBS's Margaret Brennan Grills Hakeem Jeffries On Rhetoric

Margaret Brennan accused Hakeem Jeffries of hypocrisy after he labeled Republican gerrymandering an attempt to rig midterm elections while previously criticizing similar rhetoric.
#proposition-50
fromTruthout
6 days ago
California

California Voters Back Prop 50 Redistricting Measure by Nearly 2-to-1 Spread - Poll

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fromInsideHook
1 week ago

Arnold Schwarzenegger Talked Gerrymandering on "Real Time"

Arnold Schwarzenegger supports nonpartisan redistricting and promotes bipartisan, people-first governance while debating Proposition 50 and gerrymandering.
California
fromThe Mercury News
2 weeks ago

First Bay Area D.A. joins 29 others across California opposing Prop. 50

Thirty California district attorneys oppose Proposition 50, arguing it would dismantle the Citizens Redistricting Commission and reinstate partisan gerrymandering.
fromTruthout
6 days ago
California

California Voters Back Prop 50 Redistricting Measure by Nearly 2-to-1 Spread - Poll

#redistricting
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fromIntelligencer
2 weeks ago

Trump's Redistricting Power Grab Is Losing Momentum

Trump's mid-cycle redistricting push aims to redraw maps to gain Republican U.S. House seats, prompting state-level resistance that has slowed momentum.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 weeks ago

Barabak: Beyond election House fight, Democrats' chances slim to win Senate

Redistricting fights aim to advantage parties: Republicans gerrymander to retain the House; Democrats redraw districts to flip seats while Senate control remains unlikely.
#north-carolina
#prop-50
fromsfist.com
2 weeks ago
California

CA Redistricting Measure on Track to Be One of the Most Expensive Proposition Fights In State History

fromsfist.com
2 weeks ago
California

CA Redistricting Measure on Track to Be One of the Most Expensive Proposition Fights In State History

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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

Republicans advance the mid-decade redistricting fight into swing-state North Carolina

North Carolina Republicans propose redrawing districts to dilute Black voting power in the 1st District and boost GOP chances to win 11 of 14 seats.
California
fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

Letters: 'No Kings' rallies featured patriotism on parade

No Kings rallies were peaceful, patriotic expressions of First Amendment rights, while Prop. 50 threatens fair representation through partisan control of congressional maps.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Letters: No Kings' rallies featured patriotism on parade

People lined the streets holding home-made signs for passing cars. People stated their love for America and its Constitution. There was as much flag-waving and wearing red, white and blue clothing as on any July 4th. Republican claims beforehand that they were Hate America rallies were so inaccurate as to be laughable. Flag-waving aside, what could be truer to American ways than people exercising their First Amendment rights to assemble and petition their government and tell it what they think of its policies?
California
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fromThe Nation
1 week ago

Welcome to the Age of the Robertsmander

Chief Justice John Roberts enabled partisan gerrymandering and weakened Voting Rights protections, creating conditions for prolonged Republican minority rule and House advantage.
California
fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

Letters: San Jose's minimum wage should be a living wage

San Jose's $18.45 minimum wage remains insufficient to cover local living costs, requiring a higher, inflation-adjusted living wage to retain residents.
#voting-rights-act
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

States are redistricting to help one party but sometimes the move can backfire

Mid-decade redistricting aimed at advantaging one party can backfire, producing 'dummymanders' that inadvertently aid the opposing party in neighboring districts.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 weeks 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
4 weeks 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
4 weeks 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 month 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 month 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
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fromsfist.com
1 month ago

Newsom Goes on Colbert, Warns 'We Will Not Have an Election In 2028 Unless We Wake Up'

Gavin Newsom pressed a national profile and potential 2028 bid, defended cross-ideological conversations, warned of threats to the 2028 election, and campaigned for Prop 50.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Is the 2026 Election Already in Danger?

Legal and political actions threaten the integrity of U.S. elections through restrictions on mail voting, demands for voter data, and partisan gerrymandering.
fromPsychology Today
1 month 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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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Here's how much the special election for California's partisan redistricting measure will cost

The cost of putting California's partisan redistricting ballot measure before voters this fall is expected to run the state $282.6 million, eclipsing the final bill of the last statewide special election. As Gov. Gavin Newsom and his allies signed off on Proposition 50 last month a plan to counteract an effort by Texas Republicans to gerrymander the state's congressional maps and pick up GOP seats in the U.S. House the governor vowed to reimburse counties for the hefty costs of an unexpected election.
California
fromIntelligencer
1 month 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.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Texas Democrats' Weapons of the Weak

Texas Republicans advanced a mid-decade redistricting plan aimed at gaining five U.S. House seats despite a Democratic quorum break and a planned Senate filibuster.
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
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