#Gerrymandering

The deeper irony is that, by international standards, US elections have been systematically corrupt, abusive and exclusionary, essentially forever. Maybe this could be an impetus to actually fix them?https://twitter.com/jasminmuj/status/132
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Twelve GOP state legislators were at the insurrection. Some of them actually entered the Capital. I'm going to need you to show me your work if you think GOP legislators
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The near & central south side in OKC deserve better representation. While I recognize I cannot fully represent the Latinx community & experience, one of my priorities is increasing engagement
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Republican terrorists stealing elections is *NOT NEW*.This is a much worse version of what happened in 2000 when George W. Bush subverted our representative democracy and stole the election.Because nobody
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So...I'm gonna say a thing about the 'America is better than this' concept WITHOUT claiming the USA was the bestest and fairest and equalest system ever (it wasn't) We built
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In my #DemsDoGood thread #4, let's look at House Bill 1, the very first thing house dems did. Introduced on Jan 4. Immediately assigned to relevant committees. IT'S AWESOME.https://legiscan.com/US/bill/HB1/2021 How's
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So, assuming the current trends hold, it looks good for Biden. I am relieved. If he does win, I will be very happy. I will celebrate. It will be a
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THREAD: So you want to #secede? You want to ditch the #RedStates? Escape the #BlueStates? Turns out, #secession is complicated business. Here are some thoughts from my years in #Texas,
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Despite focus on underperformance, Dems won the House popular vote by more than twice as much as GOP in 2016. 2016: GOP got 241 seats (47 seats more than Dems)
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Like all of the coherent, sane, and educated people on this platform I am not only anti-trump, I am anti-fascism (Everyone should be anti Fascism), anti-trump-supporters, anti-terrorism of any kind,
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Democrats are so incompetent they hold a majority in the House despite rampant gerrymandering, hold the senate despite malapportionment, and won presidential election popular votes convincingly for the past 16
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The @WSJ is out with an editorial today slamming the historic democracy reforms in #HR1 with the same tired arguments they and others have deployed many times before. Let’s take
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For people asking why Dems are so gloomy, here's the baseline scenario for the next eight years of American government. It's a nightmare: 2021:-Recession-COVID-Gridlock in Congress-GOP-run statehouses gerrymanders new congressional
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1You’re looking at it from a normal person’s perspective, that’s why you’re having trouble understanding. We DID have a blue tsunami. If we hadn’t we wouldn’t be winning. But you
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You're hearing a lot of talk about how America is "divided."This is too sloppy and too simplistic. America is racially segregated. It has a long history of sundown towns, racial
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SCOTUS TX CASE - RANDOM THOUGHTS1/ Standing - those arguing that TX lacks standing to sue under the Elections & Electors Clause are, in essence, arguing that it is a
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