August 21st, 2025.

Yesterday, Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives

approved a new map redrawing congressional districts

to switch five seats from Democratic control to Republican. Now the Texas Senate will take it up.

President Donald Trump demanded the new map because with popular support for his administration plummeting,

he is worried about facing voters in the 26 midterm elections. Texas Republicans are quite open that

they launched a rare mid-decade redistricting simply to

maximize their partisan gain. Although people of color are driving Texas's population growth,

the new maps put the vast majority of electoral power in the hands of white Texans. Last night, just before midnight, Trump cheered on the Texas

Republicans and called for Florida, Indiana, and other states to do the same thing. He also called

for Republicans in the state legislatures to stop mail-in voting and go to paper ballots before it is too

late.

If we do these two things, he wrote, we will pick up 100 more seats and the crooked game

of politics is over.

God bless America.

The President of the United States is openly admitting that his party cannot win a free and fair election.

Instead of appealing to voters with popular policies, he is calling for rigging our elections so that his party cannot lose.

This appears to have been the plan all along. In July, 2024, Trump told an audience of evangelical Christians that if they voted for him in November,

in four years, you don't have to vote again.

We'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote.

Republicans have put their thumb on the scales of the nation's election machinery for years,

suppressing democratic voting and gerrymandering the states to make it harder to elect Democrats than to elect Republicans.

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