The Texas Senate gave final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map early Saturday, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.
President Donald Trump has pushed for the map to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. It has five new districts that would favor Republicans.
Abbott, a Republican, is expected to quickly sign it into law, though Democrats have vowed to challenge it in court.
The effort by Trump and Texas’ Republican-majority Legislature prompted state Democrats to hold a two-week walkout and kicked off a wave of redistricting efforts across the country.
texas economy depends on the 4 great blue districts keeping the state from collapsing. why wouldnt they redistrict, with the midterms coming up they are afraid of losing more seats, so they never to shore up more.
Can’t win so gotta cheat. That is the Party of Pedophiles for you…
Can’t we just send Texas out into the ocean? At this point it’s just dead weight anyway.
The theft of democracy. Loud, public, and in the open. But then again, Texas is livestock country. It’s a shame that the people let themselves become the livestock.
Remember they are basing all of this redistricting in the data from only 1 election cycle, 2024. Even though it’s obvious the trends related to Hispanic voters are likely moving back to historical levels favoring the Democrats. So in other words, this redistricting could easily blow up in their faces and increase the number of democratic seats.
Hope so. Those Republicans have statisticians. I think they will gain five more seats. I live in Texas. People are not that smart here
From what I’ve seen if you account for voting trends even just back through 2016 or 2012, this redistricting isn’t very helpful. The 2024 voting trends seem more like an anomaly, especially with Hispanic voters. Given Trump’s crack down with ICE, his approval ratings among those voters have gone negative.
You underestimate just how racist legal immigrants can be, especially in Latino communities. The “Fuck You, I Got Mine” mentality is VERY prominent in immigrant communities in the USA.
In fact, some of the loudest supporters of his anti-immigrant policy HAVE BEEN IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained by ICE
I TRULY hope Hispanics and Latinos swing hard left in the next few elections, because they’re getting fucked the hardest right now, but to say their voting trends were an anomaly is disingenuous at best.
Texas lawmakers - LOL. Those clowns aren’t lawmakers.
They are making laws…
True. And yet here we are.
I’ve seen a lot about how this new map favours republicans, but little of the map itself and why it’s absurd.
Note, I’ll readily believe that it’s gerrymandered to hell and back, I’d just like to understand what they’re doing to it.
These districts were designed by M. C. Escher.
Here’s a breakdown by CNN comparing present and proposed districts.
These look to be the most egregious changes:
Here’s a model on how gerrymandering works for anyone that needs it.
A huge advantage of gerrymandering is after they do it, one would need to wait a few election cycles to build the evidence of the voter suppression, and by then the government can be packed with people supporting the suppression anyway.
That bottom map looks like someone stepped on Iraq.
I didn’t expect anyone to make me laugh on this topic, so congrats!
Honestly these types of maps always have something to laugh at, when faced with the inability to act it is best to laugh rather than stew in rage and misery.
I’ve been giving it my best. I keep learning more history to see even this is nothing really new. I get more disappointed that we never learn for long.
Plenty of folks learn and hold onto knowledge it’s just that we are kinda in the minority. I blame the massive population boom of the 20th century, too many people not enough facilities and resources for even education. Combine that with the fact that the massive leaps in communication technology meant people have had relatively little time to adapt and you end up with massive issues. When my great grandfather was born in the 1920s radios were an uncommon but spreading luxury and people still used telegrams as a primary form of long distance communication, when he died a couple years ago fiber optic was being laid in front of the barn his father and grandfather built with at the time state of the art electric lighting.
I’d laugh at how absurd this whole thing is, if it wasn’t so decadent…
Thanks for sharing
My pleasure. It’s a big disappointment to me that with a story this consequential and as many news outlets as we have, that people really have to search out stuff this basic. The pictures make it instantly clear what is going on and why.
I am also concerned with migrant detention being used to do what is known as prison gerrymandering, especially with Trump trying to hold a mid decade census which has never been done. I see no other reason to do such an undertaking while cutting aid.
Stuff like slicing Austin and Houston into pieces that extend WAY out into the rural areas, to lump in sufficient red votes to drown out the blue of the cities.
TBF, it’s been pretty secret even for those that voted on it. They really don’t want anyone looking at it until it’s too late.
