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Those who traditionally vote democratic. one tool republicans are using is gerrymandering, which basically means theyre redrawing election maps to overrepresent republican voters. simply put, as demographics shift away from a majority-white american electorate, theyre rigging the game. this week under the headline "the redistricting apocalypse is here," "washington post" opinion columnist paul waldman wrote, the word redistricting doesnt carry the same inherent drama as a crowd of rabid thugs br...

When till republicans are using is gerrymandering, which basically means theyre redrawing election maps to overrepresented republican voters. simply but, as demographic shift away from a majority white american electorate, they are rigging the game. this week, under the headline, the redistricting apocalypse is here. washington post opinion columnist paul watkins wrote, the word redistricting doesnt carry the same inherent drama as a crowd of rabid thugs breaking doors and windows to storm the c...

Have enabled legislators to safely ignore the people who elected them. and these maps here, more of the same. >> reporter: and some minority groups are furious at both the gop and the governor. >> these maps are illegal. and a perversion of justice that cannot stand. >> reporter: across the country, the fierce fight over drawing new election maps in the wake of the census favors republicans who control more legislatures and governorships and political analysts say the new maps alone could help t...

To you as merited. we are also, though, following breaking news from washington. today was the last day for the supreme court and the justices ruled on the biggest and most politically charged cases of the term. one case marked a significant win for conservatives, the court refused to find that partisan redrawings of election maps or gerrymandering was unconstitutional, arguing the courts were effectively powerful to stop it. this decision allows gerrymandering in north carolina and maryland t...

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Call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. when we talk about texas as a bright red state we should put an asterisk on that. texas has not always been bright red or red at all for all that long. it was only 2002 when texas republicans got control of the legislature. theyve been out of power in the statehouse since the end of the civil war. since reconstruction. in 2002, texas republicans took over. they already have the governorship, but as of 02, they had the legislature and this guy. republi...

Maps, right, of the 2000 census. just two years later, in 2002, once republicans were in charge, tom delay decided he wanted to redraw the maps again. theyd only done them two years before but he wanted new maps drawn by the new republican majority. that would make all their seats safe, the new republican majority a permanent majority. because republicans were in the majority and democrats were in the minority, the texas democrats could not stop this surprise redistricting by tom delay and the t...

Statehouse since the end of the civil war. since reconstruction. in 2002, texas republicans took over. they already have the governorship, but as of 02, they had the legislature and this guy. republican congressman tom delay who would like it if youd call him the hammer. tom delay would leaf congress and get convicted for money laundering. before all that, back a decade ago in texas, he was still swinging the hammer. like the rest of the country, texas had drawn up new election maps, right, of t...

Twice as unlikely to be able to cast a ballot. but then this week the law that allowed the feds to block those moves in texas, that law was gutted by the conservative majority of the supreme court. in gutting the voting rights act this week the supreme court also threw out both of those rulings about texas. so now texas is good to go with its voter i.d. law that was blocked for being too racist, and with its new election maps that were blocked for being too racist. what the republicans were doin...

Cast a ballot. but then this week the law that allowed the feds to block those moves in texas, that law was gutted by the conservative majority of the supreme court. in gutting the voting rights act this week the supreme court also threw out both of those rulings about texas. so now texas is good to go with its voter i.d. law that was blocked for being too racist, and with its new election maps that were blocked for being too racist. what the republicans were doing to elections in texas before, ...