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Uncle Joe

(65,538 posts) Sat Aug 23, 2025, 04:06 PM Aug 2025

Texas Republicans Admit They Screwed Up BIG TIME With Gerrymandered Maps

Just moments after Republicans in Texas successfully managed to gerrymander their state to ensure a Republican majority forever, they realized that they had made a huge mistake. It turns out that these geniuses in the GOP didn't realize that they were securing 5 seats with the new districts but also creating a total of TEN new swing districts that could actually see Democrats end up with MORE power than they have now. Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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Texas Republicans Admit They Screwed Up BIG TIME With Gerrymandered Maps (Original Post) Uncle Joe Aug 2025 OP

I hope that such blatant rigging of district boundaries is taken all of the way up to the Supreme Court. How could SWBTATTReg Aug 2025 #1

exactly what i' e been saying. there's only so thin u can cut shit. mopinko Aug 2025 #2

SWBTATTReg

(26,401 posts)

1. I hope that such blatant rigging of district boundaries is taken all of the way up to the Supreme Court. How could

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Sat Aug 23, 2025, 04:20 PM

Aug 2025

in anyone's book, this be legal? In effect, you're downsizing the value of certain votes simply based upon locations.

mopinko

(73,943 posts)

2. exactly what i' e been saying. there's only so thin u can cut shit.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:50 PM

Aug 2025

and it was already stretched pretty damn thin.

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