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NullTuples

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12. I believe it was called Operation Redmap?
Sun Jun 19, 2022, 03:12 PM
Jun 2022

And used the 2010 Census to identify the most non-obvious advantageous ways to set district boundaries. Then they pour millions from out of state funders into those races, which normally saw budgets of a few tens of thousands of dollars. Once they had a majority, they kept tightening the district maps until they reached the point we're at now. In many red states, there simply is no way for Dems to ever have a majority in the state legislature or US Congress from those states.

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