This is the way

Gerrymandering sucks. But I've been a hyper-gerrymandered Texas voter all my adulthood, and I am tired of Democrats tying an arm behind their backs. Every Blue state should gerrymander, until we finally get a national anti-gerrymandering law that ends the practice entirely.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

This is a senator L. Louise Lucas appreciation post

Republicans could end this practice entirely tomorrow for the whole country. Almost every dem would vote for it.

OMFG

If VA republicans hate being gerrymandered so much, might I suggest a nation wide ban on the practice.

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

If you care about a fair system, this is the play. Not unilateral disarmament.

Let’s use the majorities this (and other things) will enable to pass an election law bill in 2029 that will outlaw political gerrymandering nationwide. (TBC, this is a gloss on Melissa’s post, not an argument with it!)

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters: you brought this on yourselves you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster you earned this

All are welcome in the fuck the fascists pool

Apparently there’s a well-funded independent challenger in South Dakota. No preexisting officeholding experience but making a Dan Osborn-style play

Virginia Redistricting Referendum - Current Results - 🟢 Yes - 49,211 (52.6%) - 🔴 No - 44,370 (47.4%) Yes has now taken the lead.

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

what??

I was initially lukewarm on Steyer, but I’ve come around to the idea that it’s actively good to have a billionaire help lead the charge to tax billionaires.

WHAT?!?

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"vote blue no matter who" includes sewer socialists www.liberalcurrents.com/vote-blue-no...

Matt has some good sober thoughts here even though I generally disagree and would vote for the amendment if in VA. I will, however, be pretty mad if dems do not move to fix the collective action problem here nationally when they next have unified control.

We are so back!

Iowa polls Governor 🟦 Rob Sand: 51% 🟥 Randy Feenstra: 39% —— Senate 🟦 Zach Walls: 46% 🟥 Ashley Hinson: 44% — 🟦 Josh Turek: 46% 🟥 Ashley Hinson: 45% netchoice.org/new-72-of-am...

"The military ... said it was working to assist the community in Lebanon to restore the statue to its place." (Really? Maybe worth mentioning that this village is in the Israeli buffer zone and the residents may never be allowed to come back.)

AH OKAY. this is a recalled R+11 sample. 51/40. I’ll fuckin take it

Needing to spend money to play defense in Mississippi is apocalyptically bad for the NRSC, like that’s not taking money away from North Carolina that’s taking money away from Alaska

I mean, yes, this is not a good showing for Republicans, but I'd just note that of all the Republican incumbent Senators up for reelection this year who ran in 2020, only 3 of them won in 2020 by less than 10 points and she's one of them (along with Collins and Cornyn).

NEW: Our Revolution is endorsing billionaire Tom Steyer for California Gov. Founded by Bernie Sanders after his 2016 presidential campaign, the group says if progressives don't consolidate after Swalwell's exit, they risk handing the seat to a Republican theintercept.com/2026/04/20/c...

Even worse we are probably going to have to give in to some near maximalist demands from Iran.

True friends do not let you use RCP

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.

We got until July 14th to find a body. Who knows someone from DE?

Anyone in DE have ambition? I will donate immediately for the chance to oust mr valentines day.

I have major cognitive dissonance around vote abstention. Like as a first order normative matter a politician is never owed anyones vote, period the end. But on the second hand, not voting for Harris was an extremely dumb move and if you did it you own in part our current reality.

This is correct

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This will surly do it

In general Dems do not force confrontations with SCOTUS enough. Like imaging if Biden had fired all the republican NLRB commissioners and defended that act on the unitary executive theory. Either you get to have an all dem NLRB or you get the Republicans to baulk at their nonsense.

Iran's IRGC warns that no vessel of any kind should move from its anchorage in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of ​​Oman, stating that approaching the Strait of Hormuz will be considered as cooperation with the enemy, and the offending vessel will be targeted.-Iranian Press TV

our current race is an attempt to thwart the will of the Democratic Party of Lane County to insert a juiceless lightweight from a Chamber of Commerce occupied city council to replace a beloved 79 year old state representative. they were not expecting a fight, but we're giving it to them.

What if we did Dune IRL?

Cool 🫠🫠

LMFAO

The court’s new non-disclosure policy is going great I see.

Woahh

Despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, nearly every ship attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz today turned back.

it's entirely understandable that this generation of Democrats has severe trauma, what's less acceptable is hoarding leadership and making their PTSD the party platform

seriously, how many times now has he just straight up lied about the strait being reopened now? 4? at least once a week since this started