@decunningham2 Republicans currently hold both houses of Congress and the presidencySo they could propose something different but instead they are just whining about Dems winning the game they stared
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Ross Steinborn
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Father of 3. domestic violence advocate @HarvardDivinity Alum, theology, politics, philosophy-- Not necessarily in that order. views are mine
Beverly, MA Katılım Şubat 2009
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Democrats do not have an actual, standalone proposal to ban partisan gerrymandering that does not involve California-style independent commissions - which no Republican in Congress would likely vote for.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Again, if Republicans want to stop partisan gerrymandering they should vote for Democrats’ proposal for a national ban on partisan gerrymandering. If they don’t want to stop it, then stop whining.
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@DefiyantlyFree This is just untrue.
Texas gop and Trump began this current mid-cycle redistticting fight. Republicans are just mad because Dems are playing hardball and winning the game that republicans started
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Yeah, Republicans and Democrats both engaged in gerrymandering. Here’s the difference democrats always take it to the next level. They literally obliterate any and every single normal boundary to usurp power.
I can now say that after looking at the actual numbers. And that’s the difference is one party has absolutely no moral dividing line and they are willing to do anything for power.
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@richardbridd21 @mattyglesias @Hale_Storm @grok Not necessarily: there is also Fair Representation Act: Would require independent commissions + multi-member districts
Introduced 2017, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025
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@mattyglesias @Hale_Storm Are you talking about the We The People Act Matt?
Hey @grok, the We The People Act proposed by Democrats in Congress, is it a simple one item ban on partisan gerrymandering nationally, or does it do more? List the other things it does.
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Again, if Republicans want to stop partisan gerrymandering they should vote for Democrats’ proposal for a national ban on partisan gerrymandering.
If they don’t want to stop it, then stop whining.
CJ Pearson@Cjpearson
It's still just completely insane that Democrats were allowed to write a ballot question that says "restore fairness" and have the result create this lobster-like monstrosity of a congressional district.
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@mattyglesias @Hale_Storm Right. I think Dems finally realized that anything other than a national
Ban is just unilateral disarmament and the GOP hasn’t even pretended to reciprocate in the last 2
Decades.
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@Hale_Storm Yes.
Here is my entire argument about Virginia gerrymandering:
Democrats have repeatedly proposed a national gerrymandering ban. If Republicans are mad about gerrymandering, they should say yes and bad it. If not, they should shut up.
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@PatrickRuffini It only works if it’s national. Anything else is unilateral disarmament. Dems have tried that (CA, VA, MI,
Colorado) with little
To no reciprocity.
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Re: Just pass a national gerrymandering ban.
Virginia had a gerrymandering ban.
How did that go?
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@AngelaBelcamino Another way to look at it is that Dems have spent the last 2 Decades playing nice: trying regulate gerrymandering through legislation (dozens of Dems bills with no gop support) and some unilateral disarmament with GOP Giving no reciprocity, so now They are just playing hardball
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Democrats rail against gerrymandering—until it benefits them. Just look at Virginia.
Using Texas as the example while doing the same thing is peak hypocrisy.
Nothing’s uglier than…
“it’s fine when my side does it.”
Power over principles—every time.
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@tubes12 @TheModerateCase Agreed.
Dems spent the last 30
Years of my life trying to regulate gerrymandering through compromise legislation, the courts and some states unilaterally disarming, but that didn’t work, so now they are playing hardball.
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@TheModerateCase There's no hope of banning gerrymandering if Republicans have no reason to want to ban it. Republicans need to be hurt by gerrymandering, and hurt badly, for them to want to ban it.
Every vote to ban gerrymandering has been down party lines.
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Voters sent you a clear message as well, hypocrite.
Kamala Harris@KamalaHarris
Donald Trump and Republicans have tried to rig the 2026 midterms. Today in Virginia, voters sent them a clear message: The power is with the people.
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@Fair_and_Biased Yeah. The TX mid-cycle re-districting scheme was the final straw, Dems have started playing hardball
Bet gop is regretting not supporting one of the dozens of anti-gerrymandering bills Dems have proposed over yit last decade
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Gerrymandering is always a problem.
I think you’re seeing more pearl clutching about VA, though, bc none of the recent Republican gerrymandering disenfranchised voters this much.
VA voted 48% against this measure, but now only 10% of VA conservatives will have a voice at all.
Billy Binion@billybinion
I'm not a fan of gerrymandering. But I'm still waiting for a convincing explanation for why it’s a “threat to democracy” when Democrats do it and mysteriously fine when Republicans do. The extremely blatant double standard is a bit much.
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@DefiantOutlawX Glad you’ve finally figured out gerrymandering is bad. I bet you all regret not supporting any of the dozen or so anti-Gerrymandering bill Dems have sponsored in Congress over the past 10
Years.
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Virginia in 2024:
🔵52% Kamala
🔴47% Trump
Virginia for this Redistricting:
🔵51% Yes
🔴49% No
New Congressional Seats:
🔵91% Democrats
🔴9% Republicans
🤯🥴
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@BrentScher Your mad because democrats started playing by the rules of the game established by a 5-4 conservative decision in 2019 .since then Dems have proposed dozens of anti-gerrymandering bills, which the gOp has never supported.
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Democrats can never talk about gerrymandering again.
Robby Soave@robbysoave
This is truly insane lol
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@TeamZissou You all asked for this: republican justices kicked gerrymandering reform to the congress in 2019. Dems have proposed dozens of anti-gerrymandering bills since then with 0 gop support. Trump and TX began this mid-cycle re-districting fight and Dems are fighting fire with 🔥
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Welp, it's official. 90% of the state voted NO but Northern VA made sure none of it matters and none of it will ever matter.
Occams Razor@TeamZissou
Take a good look at your state, Virginia. The whole damn thing just voted NO yet NOVA will undo all of it to make sure you never see a map looking like this ever again
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@JradRabel It’s almost as if republicans should have supported one of the Dozens of anti-gerrymandering bills proposed by democrats over the last decade
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Democracy is 48% of the population being deprived of their liberty by 51% of the population
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@MattisRedacted It’s not.
But the mid-cycle redistricting plan in TX finally got Dems to follow the law
And stop unilaterally disarming around gerrymandering.
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I’m sorry but I simply don’t see how redistricting a purple state to be almost entirely blue is “democratic”.
Half of Virginians vote Democrat, so half of their representatives should be Democrats.
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@RealMikeNelson1 @elongate2023 @Geiger_Capital They are like Toddlers: they can dish it out but they can’t take it.
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@elongate2023 @Geiger_Capital They voted in Virginia.
They voted in California.
You lost.
Did they vote in Texas? NO. 🤦♂️
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Virginia in 2024:
🔵52% Kamala
🔴47% Trump
Virginia for this Redistricting:
🔵51% Yes
🔴49% No
New Congressional Seats:
🔵91% Democrats
🔴9% Republicans
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@Geiger_Capital Yeah that sucks
Maybe republicans should have supported one of the dozens of anti-gerrymandering measures proposed by democrats over the last decade
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@Fair_and_Biased Hmmm. Sounds like maybe Republican should have supported one of the dozens of anti-gerrymandering bills democrats proposed over the last decade.
Dems start to fight fire with fire
And you all can’t take it
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This measure passed by only a few points.
It was close.
6D-5R reflected the state: a toss up that skews left.
10D-1R looks nothing like the state or the voter base.
This is an outrage.
Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital
I’ve seen enough… Virginia redistricting has passed. A state that Kamala barely won by 5 pts has been redrawn from 6D-5R to 10D-1R.
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@BreitbartNews It’s almost like republicans are regretting not supporting one of the dozens of democratic anti-gerrymandering bills
Proposed in Congress over the last decade.
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49% of Virginians voted against a Democrat redistricting plan tonight.
49% of the state will soon have only 9% of the state's representation in Congress.
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@libsoftiktok Over the last 30 years, generally speaking, the GOP has been much more aggressive in gerrymandering. Democrats have generally pushed to restrict or end it through unilateral disarmament and dozens of reform bills, and now that theyre fighting fire with fire Republicans are mad.
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Democrats won Virginia in 2024 by just 5 points
They will now control almost every district
The new map will likely give Republicans just one seat while Democrats get 10
Democrats can’t win without cheating
This is “Democracy” or something
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@jjverdi Over the last 30 years, generally, the GOP has been more aggressive in gerrymandering. Democrats have generally pushed to restrict or end it through unilateral disarmament and dozens of reform bills, and now that they’re fighting fire with fire Republicans are mad.
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So in basically a 50-50 vote the Democrats just disenfranchised Virginia voters 91-9. Don’t ever lecture us about democracy again. It’s a tyrannical party that values power over people. They hate you. Even if you’re one of them. You’re a useful idiot and nothing more.
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@EndWokeness You’re all like toddlers, you can dish it out just fine but you can’t take it when it comes back at you.
Perhaps republicans should have supported one of the dozens of anti-gerrymandering bills proposed by democrats over the last decade
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Dems will now control 90% of districts in a state they only won by 5%
For the sake of "fairness"
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