…The proposed Texas map is designed to net the GOP up to five House seats — potentially enough to decide the majority…
Outside Texas, key Democratic governors have launched an aggressive counteroffensive to try to neutralize the GOP’s redistricting push.
…Newsom, who’s made no secret of his presidential ambitions, has openly accused Trump of “rigging” the midterms and suggested California could redraw its map to eliminate all nine GOP-held seats.
[New York Gov. Kathy Hochul] called Monday for disbanding New York’s independent redistricting commission and embracing partisan hardball, telling reporters that she’s “tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back…I cannot ignore that the playing field has changed dramatically, and shame on us if we ignore that fact and cling tight to the vestiges of the past,” Hochul said.
Land doesn’t vote. People do. Redistrict all of the rural areas in any state to include even a single large city in that state and the whole country will be blue. Fascists have been doing it the opposite way for years.
If enough blue states do it, it will directly counter the fascist push to do the same because without cheating, they just don’t have the numbers.
Yes, anti-fascists have to play the same game as fascists. None of this “when they go low…” shit can stand anymore.
But I have a little bone to pick with your first statement: at the state level, that holds up (depending on the state), but at the federal level, land (ok, less populous states) has an outsized influence because of the permanent apportionment law from almost 100 years ago.
Every California house member serves about 760k people, where Wyoming has 576k people total.
That means 9.5M ((760k - 576k) x 52 seats) people in CA (or 16.4 Wyomings) effectively don’t get a say every time the house votes.
And it’s even worse when we get to the electoral college (sum of House and Senate members per state). Wyoming has 192k people per electoral vote and CA has 732k people per electoral vote.
So it’s not entirely fair to dismiss the people vs land vote.