If the Democratic Party takes the House by a landslide, which we can definitely do if we vote, we’ll be able to launch investigations into the corruption within Trump’s Cabinet. If we take the Senate too, the fascist administration will be stopped in its tracks.
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fga2025 on
The best part is that the Texas/GOP aggressive redistricting that triggered blue state retaliatory redistricting is likely to fail to work as intended in Texas, because the GOP margin assumptions were wrong, due to Trump’s extreme unpopularity on Iran, tariffs, ICE, etc.
InfinityComplexxx on
Barring GOP cheating, Dems should clear 40 seats easily, and take the Senate
kcramthun on
We have to be prepared for rat-fuckery leading up to November. The guy doesn’t understand the basic concept of “no” and and he’ll get desperate.
jiveturker on
Trump led the Repubs right into FAFO territory with his redistricting push. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Midterms are gonna be a slaughter.
DenaliBurnz on
Imagine the polling leap the Dems would have if they announced new leadership.
Talking 20pt bump.
Schumer and Jeffries gotta go.
OTrigNation on
It was a tight margin. But it proves we can fight fire with fire. Whatever MAGA tries to throw at the wall to get them to win in November, nothing seems to be sticking.
Choice-of-SteinsGate on
Good.
Democrats should be using every weapon at their disposal to fight back.
Because Republicans have been suppressing the vote for years and taking advantage of voter geography to gain seats where they otherwise wouldn’t.
Their voter suppression campaign really accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and in response to Trump’s ‘big lie” of a “rigged” 2020 election.
The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.
Republicans are also consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.
This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump giving himself and his party a license to say f-ck all to democratic norms for the sake of maintaining their grip on power.
MAGA can clutch their pearls all they want, but these redistricting wars are a consequence of the Republican party’s extreme gerrymandering efforts in Texas where state legislators, alongside the governor, took it upon themselves to unilaterally redraw maps before the next census.
Democrats are just responding in kind to this brazenly partisan scheme to change the outcome of future elections in their state. And in this case, it’s an effective, reasonable and common sense strategy.
Remember that in CA, Americans came out in droves to vote overwhelmingly in favor of proposition 50. Election data shows that some counties that voted for Trump in 2024 also supported prop 50. Meaning that even some Trump voters backed the measure.
For decades, Republicans have been exploiting the fact that Democrats are more vulnerable to gerrymandering. Republicans have also benefitted most from redistricting because they have broader control over state legislatures.
But the GOP has also taken other approaches over the years to influence election outcomes.
Republicans have frequently attacked or have even sought to eliminate election procedures and conveniences like early voting, mail in balloting, polling accessibility and extended polling hours, existing ID laws, automatic and same day voting registration, ballot boxes, ranked choice voting, voting rights, standardized election security measures, among other things.
Republicans try to disguise their voter suppression tactics as an effort to “protect election integrity,” when in reality, their goal is often to make it more challenging and tedious to vote, especially for citizens located in urban areas and cities.
And in recent years especially, Republicans have been capitalizing on the ignorance and distrust of their voters to empower themselves with more legal authority to challenge election results and consolidate control over the election system.
They have the ability now more than ever to deny, subvert, contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.
On top of all of this, Republicans are trying to scheme their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision meant to protect marginalized voters from being unfairly sequestered and disenfranchised.
To make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing state troops and mobilizing trigger happy ICE thugs to US cities around the country where he no doubt plans to use this paramilitary force to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.
Then there’s Trump’s recent threats of “nationalizing” US elections.
So much for states rights huh? An argument that has almost always been posited in bad faith by conservatives who are trying to justify why federal government intervention is only acceptable when it aligns with *their* goals.
Republicans have the gall to say they’re “protecting the integrity of elections,” while making every effort to subvert the vote, purge voter rolls of democrats, deny election results, crudely redraw maps, limit voter participation, make voting more challenging, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.
Other systemic problems impede free and fair elections too. Issues that Republicans deliberately ignore or fail to address properly.
Like foreign election meddling, the awful Citizens United ruling and campaign finance corruption.
If MAGA is truly intent on “protecting election integrity,” they should focus on the myriad systemic issues that Trump/Republicans continue to exploit to their growing political advantage, instead of obsessing over baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
But Republicans have all but succeeded at relying on culture war propaganda and these kinds of conspiracy theories about rampant election fraud to divert attention away from their efforts to erode the democratic process.
Another one of their favorite tactics involves scapegoating immigrants, minorites and marginalized communities of people who they urge you to blame for all of our nation’s problems; including, but not limited to manufactured issues like pervasive “voter fraud.”
Turns out, Republicans are the REAL threat to “election integrity.”
Green-Collection-968 on
Sorry Fascists, Democracy is non-negotiable.
IJustLookLikeThis13 on
Correction: Virginia Voters Just Gave Trump a Clearer Path to Rigging the Midterms.
Creative_Visit122 on
Sure all these hopeful post about an easy win, yet not posting about the shady deals done behind closed doors and shadow dockets in the supreme Court setting up unimaginable blindsided loss in November…keep your eyes on the actual news and not focusing on the propaganda bs fake news the misleading trash.
In_leiu_of_That_Girl on
Hallelujah
AliMcGraw on
Apologies to everyone else on the planet who has to google why it’s called a gerrymander.
brattysweat on
Trump has no incentive to ever do right by anyone or anything.
The republicans have nothing left to give him so he has nothing left to lose. He’ll go down taking all of them with him.
gamehenge_survivor on
HoW cOuLd ThE dEmOcRaTs Do ThE sAmE tHiNg We Do On A mUcH lArGeR sCaLe?!?!
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If the Democratic Party takes the House by a landslide, which we can definitely do if we vote, we’ll be able to launch investigations into the corruption within Trump’s Cabinet. If we take the Senate too, the fascist administration will be stopped in its tracks.
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The best part is that the Texas/GOP aggressive redistricting that triggered blue state retaliatory redistricting is likely to fail to work as intended in Texas, because the GOP margin assumptions were wrong, due to Trump’s extreme unpopularity on Iran, tariffs, ICE, etc.
Barring GOP cheating, Dems should clear 40 seats easily, and take the Senate
We have to be prepared for rat-fuckery leading up to November. The guy doesn’t understand the basic concept of “no” and and he’ll get desperate.
Trump led the Repubs right into FAFO territory with his redistricting push. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Midterms are gonna be a slaughter.
Imagine the polling leap the Dems would have if they announced new leadership.
Talking 20pt bump.
Schumer and Jeffries gotta go.
It was a tight margin. But it proves we can fight fire with fire. Whatever MAGA tries to throw at the wall to get them to win in November, nothing seems to be sticking.
Good.
Democrats should be using every weapon at their disposal to fight back.
Because Republicans have been suppressing the vote for years and taking advantage of voter geography to gain seats where they otherwise wouldn’t.
Their voter suppression campaign really accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and in response to Trump’s ‘big lie” of a “rigged” 2020 election.
The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.
Republicans are also consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.
This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump giving himself and his party a license to say f-ck all to democratic norms for the sake of maintaining their grip on power.
MAGA can clutch their pearls all they want, but these redistricting wars are a consequence of the Republican party’s extreme gerrymandering efforts in Texas where state legislators, alongside the governor, took it upon themselves to unilaterally redraw maps before the next census.
Democrats are just responding in kind to this brazenly partisan scheme to change the outcome of future elections in their state. And in this case, it’s an effective, reasonable and common sense strategy.
Remember that in CA, Americans came out in droves to vote overwhelmingly in favor of proposition 50. Election data shows that some counties that voted for Trump in 2024 also supported prop 50. Meaning that even some Trump voters backed the measure.
For decades, Republicans have been exploiting the fact that Democrats are more vulnerable to gerrymandering. Republicans have also benefitted most from redistricting because they have broader control over state legislatures.
But the GOP has also taken other approaches over the years to influence election outcomes.
Republicans have frequently attacked or have even sought to eliminate election procedures and conveniences like early voting, mail in balloting, polling accessibility and extended polling hours, existing ID laws, automatic and same day voting registration, ballot boxes, ranked choice voting, voting rights, standardized election security measures, among other things.
Republicans try to disguise their voter suppression tactics as an effort to “protect election integrity,” when in reality, their goal is often to make it more challenging and tedious to vote, especially for citizens located in urban areas and cities.
And in recent years especially, Republicans have been capitalizing on the ignorance and distrust of their voters to empower themselves with more legal authority to challenge election results and consolidate control over the election system.
They have the ability now more than ever to deny, subvert, contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.
On top of all of this, Republicans are trying to scheme their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision meant to protect marginalized voters from being unfairly sequestered and disenfranchised.
To make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing state troops and mobilizing trigger happy ICE thugs to US cities around the country where he no doubt plans to use this paramilitary force to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.
Then there’s Trump’s recent threats of “nationalizing” US elections.
So much for states rights huh? An argument that has almost always been posited in bad faith by conservatives who are trying to justify why federal government intervention is only acceptable when it aligns with *their* goals.
Republicans have the gall to say they’re “protecting the integrity of elections,” while making every effort to subvert the vote, purge voter rolls of democrats, deny election results, crudely redraw maps, limit voter participation, make voting more challenging, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.
Other systemic problems impede free and fair elections too. Issues that Republicans deliberately ignore or fail to address properly.
Like foreign election meddling, the awful Citizens United ruling and campaign finance corruption.
If MAGA is truly intent on “protecting election integrity,” they should focus on the myriad systemic issues that Trump/Republicans continue to exploit to their growing political advantage, instead of obsessing over baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
But Republicans have all but succeeded at relying on culture war propaganda and these kinds of conspiracy theories about rampant election fraud to divert attention away from their efforts to erode the democratic process.
Another one of their favorite tactics involves scapegoating immigrants, minorites and marginalized communities of people who they urge you to blame for all of our nation’s problems; including, but not limited to manufactured issues like pervasive “voter fraud.”
Turns out, Republicans are the REAL threat to “election integrity.”
Sorry Fascists, Democracy is non-negotiable.
Correction: Virginia Voters Just Gave Trump a Clearer Path to Rigging the Midterms.
Sure all these hopeful post about an easy win, yet not posting about the shady deals done behind closed doors and shadow dockets in the supreme Court setting up unimaginable blindsided loss in November…keep your eyes on the actual news and not focusing on the propaganda bs fake news the misleading trash.
Hallelujah
Apologies to everyone else on the planet who has to google why it’s called a gerrymander.
Trump has no incentive to ever do right by anyone or anything.
The republicans have nothing left to give him so he has nothing left to lose. He’ll go down taking all of them with him.
HoW cOuLd ThE dEmOcRaTs Do ThE sAmE tHiNg We Do On A mUcH lArGeR sCaLe?!?!