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RastaWhen I discovered my phone had been saving *drafts* for over a year, I just sent them anyway, reminding everyone of better times.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GoodMorning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoodMorning</a> but bitter cold..She was gone this morning but I did see a homeless, soon-to-be mom, camping in my backyard last night. I pretended not to notice her, but the cat stared all night <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homelessness</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Housing</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Costs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Costs</a>

Preston MacDougall<a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TheConversationUS</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> stopped wasting money and non-renewable resources on minting <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/pennies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pennies</a> years ago. <a href="https://coinvalues.com/blog/what-happened-to-the-canadian-penny" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://coinvalues.com/blog/what-happened-to-the-canadian-penny</a>The <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canadian</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> outlawed <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> nationwide. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/4/15/5604284/us-elections-are-rigged-but-canada-knows-how-to-fix-them" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/2014/4/15/5604284/us-elections-are-rigged-but-canada-knows-how-to-fix-them</a>And yesterday <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> defeated the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> in the first <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/4Nations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#4Nations</a> Face-Off. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/hockey/canada-defeats-usa-overtime-claim-hockeys-first-4-nations-face-title-rcna193100" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/hockey/canada-defeats-usa-overtime-claim-hockeys-first-4-nations-face-title-rcna193100</a>When did Americans become weenies? 🤔 <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/BeLikeCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BeLikeCanada</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DoNotCollaborateWithFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoNotCollaborateWithFascists</a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>.

Thelonious08If Democrats had done extreme partisan gerrymanders of New York and California back in 2010 or 2017 or 2021 we would have a 20+ seat House Majority right now and a Democratic House Speaker could impeach, investigate, subpoena, and block all bad legislation. They chose not to. It was surrender. Even today no one even mentions this critically important field of battle. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RaiseTheBar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RaiseTheBar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemandMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemandMore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VichyDems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VichyDems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MakeThemFight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MakeThemFight</a>

Annother“A redraw of Ohio’s US Congressional district map will happen this year under the same politician-controlled process as before…but with plenty of insight from the past, voting rights advocates say.“The congressional map <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ohio</a> has been using for the last 4yrs are up for a redraw due to a lack of bipartisan support when the map was passed by the legislature in 2022….If the map gets bipartisan support, they last for 10yrs.” <a href="https://mas.to/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OHpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OHpol</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/gopcorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gopcorruption</a><a href="https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/14/ohio-u-s-congressional-redistricting-is-on-the-agenda-for-2025-with-advocates-preparing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/14/ohio-u-s-congressional-redistricting-is-on-the-agenda-for-2025-with-advocates-preparing/</a>

Chuck DarwinOn the U.S. Supreme Court —Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy. Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking —encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch —it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.We can draw a straight line, for example, from the Roberts Court’s 2010 <a href="https://c.im/tags/Citizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Citizens</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/United" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#United</a> decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting, to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender. Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Super" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Super</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PACs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PACs</a>, giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters. The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda, meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.Three years later, in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shelby</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/County" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#County</a> v.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Holder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holder</a>, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination. Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history, declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.” A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority. “Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent. But soaking us was the whole point. The downpour continues. Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander, a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rucho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rucho</a> v. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Common" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Common</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cause</a>. In that case, the Roberts Court —so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court” —conveniently found that <a href="https://c.im/tags/partisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#partisan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a>, -- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures, -- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.<a href="https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/</a>

Voting is Your POWERIn states where the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nazi</a> party cheated with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> to illegally seize power, the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nazis</a> kill their own constituents<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspolitics</a><a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-tennessee-medicaid-wic-2a67e38c0d523a008ec8e1b173b67297" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/abortion-tennessee-medicaid-wic-2a67e38c0d523a008ec8e1b173b67297</a>

ajaxStardust<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gerrymandering</a> !== <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> though it may be borne of <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racist</a> idealsThis in response to something i'd commented on here. Of course the O/P made no comment, when i advised that ... her thing was 50 years later something about ... use a new word. i dont rem. but here it is, fur eel: I mean no disrespect-- but sometimes I wonder if it's not more harmful to paint the history incorrectly somehow. It's my belief-- i mean-- you have to look beyond what the "exposures" have taught us in the past 20 years or so. It's deeper than that. (thank heaven's i can think today! - see my cognitive struggles my pg)How much of it goes back to the "Forefathers"? How much has been "forgiven". It's just nuts. unfathomable (e.g the natives? [ :vomiting: ])so, i think it's really important not to use the word "Racism" where it's not really what it is. What do I know? I have no degree or formal education in it. But i'm not a moron either. Not sure which is worse. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> is an instrument of control. In mistakenly calling something like <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gerrymandering</a> , it is THEY who win. You have to stop misusing that word. That's not like "step one". There are no "steps" to it. It's just common sense, man. Get a new outlook. No one here is trying to fight. But that's why <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> is disease and some weird mixed-up mutated version in the <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a>

Voting is Your POWERThe MAGA Republicans in Raleigh who drew these maps didn’t care about reflecting the will of the people. They cared about power. They used the redistricting process to rig the system, taking advantage of their supermajority to draw lines that would give them three more seats — no matter what the voters wanted. But voters deserve better. They deserve a system where their voices are heard, where their votes matter, and where their representatives are chosen by the people — not by politicians drawing lines behind closed doors. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspolitics</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/cheating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cheating</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/houseofrepresentatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#houseofrepresentatives</a><a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article296319684.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article296319684.html</a>

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️“What’s happening in North Carolina is sinister." Previews Trump2 threat to democracy <a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/12/13/whats-happening-in-north-carolina-is-sinister-nc-offers-preview-of-to-democracy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.salon.com/2024/12/13/whats-happening-in-north-carolina-is-sinister-nc-offers-preview-of-to-democracy</a>* NC GOP openly trying to overturn Democratic victories, prevent them from occurring again * stripping power f. incoming Democratic governorTransphobe Mark Robinson <a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113187632314292090" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113187632314292090</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectoralFraud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump2</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthCarolina</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarkRobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkRobinson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christofascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiLGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiLGBT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgenocide</a>

Preston MacDougall<a href="https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TonyStark</a> Thanks to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> over 90% over Congressional districts are *uncompetitive*, and people voting in the less dominant party primary especially are *wasting* their vote. Plain and simple. If common sense doesn’t do it for you, here are all the stats you could want: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Incumbent_win_rates_by_state" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Incumbent_win_rates_by_state</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PrimaryFromTheCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrimaryFromTheCenter</a> to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SaveAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaveAmerica</a> !

Ruby S.One of the many things that <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> could be doing if they actually cared about saving <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> is to end <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a>. Districts should be drawn by mathematicians not politicians.<a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/12/01/how-held-the-house-its-the-gerrymander-stupid/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.salon.com/2024/12/01/how-held-the-house-its-the-gerrymander-stupid/</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ncpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ncpol</a>

Duane Aubin :verified:<a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/profile/claralistensprechen3rd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@claralistensprechen3rd</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@Doreen32128" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Doreen32128</a> <a href="https://beige.party/@GuyDudeman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GuyDudeman</a> I hear you :-)My particular angle of contribution is to connect the larger-scale events that are explicitly political-process driven. It is the <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/enfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enfranchisement</a>/ <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a> template that makes sense of <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoterSuppression</a>, #3/5thsCompromise, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/ElectoralCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectoralCollege</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivilWar</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JimCrow</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/jan6th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jan6th</a> It is a thick band of threads running throughout the fabric of <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a>

MagpieblogThe fascist right is already hard at work stealing the 2026 elections, too. But if we learn from the current Democratic electoral failures, they won't be successful.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/USElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USElections</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VoterSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoterSuppression</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VoterPurges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoterPurges</a> <a href="https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-republicans-actually-stole-the" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-republicans-actually-stole-the</a>

Alan McConchieLots of important state level ballot measures to watch today, about Ranked Choice Voting, open primaries, and independent redistricting! Follow the results at Unite America: <a href="https://www.uniteamerica.org/ballot-measures" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.uniteamerica.org/ballot-measures</a><a href="https://subdued.social/tags/UniteAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniteAmerica</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Election2024</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/ElectionDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionDay</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspolitics</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/RankedChoiceVoting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RankedChoiceVoting</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/Oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oregon</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nevada</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arizona</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/Idaho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Idaho</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/Montana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Montana</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colorado</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ohio</a> <a href="https://subdued.social/tags/FairVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FairVote</a>

KielKontrovers Blog<a href="https://writing.exchange/@Firlefanz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Firlefanz</a> ja und dieses komische Wort <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering</a>

Nick<a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kkarhan</a> exactly that would be the best solution, <a href="https://sfba.social/@vij" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@vij</a> this is an interesting article about <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/4/15/5604284/us-elections-are-rigged-but-canada-knows-how-to-fix-them" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/2014/4/15/5604284/us-elections-are-rigged-but-canada-knows-how-to-fix-them</a> but the US might not even achieve that goal with "independent" commissions, since basically everyone in the US is part of either party. Other solutions would be <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/rankedChoiceVoting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rankedChoiceVoting</a> to help competition/more moderate candidates and speaking of the Electoral Collage the "<a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/NationalPopularVoteInterstateCompact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalPopularVoteInterstateCompact</a>" would effectively enable a popular vote. <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/usPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usPol</a> <a href="https://piraten-partei.social/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elections</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://sfba.social/@vij" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@vij</a> Gerrymandering like this is why election districts in Germany get drawn by independent commissions solely based off census data and solely based on the goal to make them as equal as they can in population.<ul><li>For Federal Elections: Target size is 300k population, rounded by full ZIP Codes and following county & district lines as close as possible doing so.</li></ul><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DEpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEpol</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elections</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ElectionDistricts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionDistricts</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/census" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#census</a>

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️GOP candidate for N.C. schools spreads conspiracy theories/groomer rhetoric <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/nx-s1-5154035/north-carolina-schools-candidate-michele-morrow-obama" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2024/10/21/nx-s1-5154035/north-carolina-schools-candidate-michele-morrow-obama</a>* Michele Morrow (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Morrow" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Morrow</a>): “Make education great again”[thread] North Carolina political sewer 🚽 🪠 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_North_Carolina" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_North_Carolina</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NorthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthCarolina</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicanParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/supermajority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#supermajority</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectoralFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectoralFraud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protofascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristianRight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misogyny</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MicheleMorrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MicheleMorrow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarkRobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkRobinson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TriciaCotham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TriciaCotham</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SystemicRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SystemicRacism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disinformation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiLGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiLGBT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transphobia</a>

nanowizthey know if they don't win this election, <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#republicans</a> will never get elected again. Citizen led efforts to end <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a>, <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/VoterSupression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoterSupression</a>, <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/electioninterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electioninterference</a>, <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a> and the <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/electoralcollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electoralcollege</a>! we're coming after all of the efforts to continue <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/minorityrule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minorityrule</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/harriswalz2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#harriswalz2024</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/EndGerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EndGerrymandering</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/endcitizensunited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#endcitizensunited</a>

Chuck DarwinSome of the most consequential Republican attacks on democracy happen at the state levelA map from the Brennan Center for Justice shows every state that passed a restriction on the franchise between 2010 and 2019. These restrictions, ranging from <a href="https://c.im/tags/voter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ID</a> laws to <a href="https://c.im/tags/felon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#felon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/disenfranchisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disenfranchisement</a>, were generally passed by Republican majorities with the intent of hurting turnout among Democratic-leaning constituencies.Republican state legislators were sometimes explicit about this: 💥“Voter ID ... is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,” then-state House Majority Leader Mike Turzai bragged during the 2012 presidential election cycle.Because Republicans dominated the 2010 midterm elections, Republican statehouses got to control the post-2010 census redistricting process at both the House and state legislative level, leading to extreme <a href="https://c.im/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> in Republican-controlled states unlike anything in Democratic ones.Conservative control of the Supreme Court enabled this state-level push. In 2013, the Court 🆘 struck down the Voting Rights Act’s “preclearance” requirement — that states with a history of racial discrimination would be required to get permission from the Justice Department on their maps and other major changes to electoral law. In 2019, another Court ruling paved the way for further partisan gerrymandering.

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