🚨 BREAKING: Texas governor Greg Abbott has added congressional redistricting to the call of the special session

[In It to Win It]

🚨 BREAKING: Texas governor Greg Abbott has added congressional redistricting to the call of the special session that starts July 21. #txlege

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— Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T20:41:56.060Z

This thread 🧵 from back when rumors of this maneuver first surfaced still sums up my take. It is a risky, high-stakes play, both from an electoral and a legal standpoint.

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— Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T20:50:01.686Z

To that thread, I will only add that *if* Texas is found to have intentionally discriminated against minority voters in the upcoming round of redistricting, that finding could serve as the basis for bailing the state back into preclearance using Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act.

— Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T21:04:50.130Z

🚨🚨UPDATE: Via Brad Johnson over on Twitter, it looks like DOJ is helping to set up the mid-decade Texas redraw by raising supposed legal concerns about: TX-09 , TX-18, and TX-29 in Metro Houston and TX-33 in the DFW Metroplex. #txlege

— Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T21:10:53.546Z

TX-09 is currently represented by Al Green, TX-18 was the former district of Sylvester Turner, TX-29 is Sylvia Garcia’s district, and TX-33 is Marc Veasey’s district. #txlege

— Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) 2025-07-09T21:13:55.033Z

[Strelnikov_]

1. Woo-hoo

Just ahead of a wave election.

When it backfires, though, they can parade the white hat guys with serious demeanor blaming it on someone else.

[Traildogbob]

2. With

over starched long sleeve white shirts, creased jeans
Belt buckled big enough to hold a Trump holiday meal, but actually to hold in their guts, and pointy toed boots.
Used to kick giant Texas Cockroaches in a corner.
Obviously hard working ranchers that cowboy from 5:00 AM until 9 PM 7 days a week.
Wait, ya telling me they hire undocumented Latinos to do the hard ranch work????
And they just play dress up cowboy?

[newdeal2]

3. Why do all of this if the elections are already rigged?

[walkingman]

4. I have a dream.....Elon Musk has threatened to create a 3rd party after his recent feud with Orange Jesus

which is much more difficult than it sounds so instead...created the new Party in selective states, Texas being the first since his HQ is here. Spread his backwards BS throughout the State and draw off the shitkickers and rednecks from the GOP thereby creating a win by the Texas Democratic Party. If we could ever take back Texas (hasn't happened in 30 years) with it's 40 electoral votes, the GOP could never win a national election again.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Republicans are trying to further gerrymander a state that already has districts that look like this:

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