Republicans are finishing up every part outlined in Undertaking 2025 regardless of their disingenuous efforts to persuade voters that the blueprint for a authorities takeover wasn’t actual. Hell, even some people on the left weren’t assured that right-wing plan might be executed, however right here we live it each single day, and Donald Trump hasn’t even been in workplace for one yr of his second time period. A part of Undertaking 2025 was the aggressive “redistricting”, aka gerrymandering, of key voting areas that might assist be sure that Republicans win elections and nothing helps them greater than eradicating Black and brown folks from the method.
Luckily, politicians like Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier are hip to the sport and aren’t going for the banana within the tailpipe. Earlier this month, Texas Democrats left the state to forestall Republicans from voting on their new biased congressional maps. Because of this, on Monday, Home Speaker Dustin Burrows positioned authorized restrictions on their means to maneuver freely as soon as congressional members returned to the state. For a vote to be taken, a quorum, or a minimal variety of members, have to be current for authorized proceedings. In accordance with CNN reporting, Burrows introduced that congresspeople would solely be allowed to depart the Home flooring in the event that they had been escorted by a legislation enforcement officer.
“My constituents despatched me to Austin to guard their voices and rights,” mentioned Collier. “I refuse to signal away my dignity as a duly elected consultant simply so Republicans can management my actions and monitor me with police escorts. My group is majority-minority, and so they count on me to face up for his or her illustration. After I press that button to vote, I do know these maps will hurt my constituents — I gained’t simply go alongside quietly with their intimidation or their discrimination.”
Rep. Collier wasn’t going to offer her freedom away to a police officer so she opted to remain in the Home versus her home.
The potential redistricting has dire penalties because it pertains to future elections and the stability of energy in America. In a separate report, CNN notes that if Republicans are capable of redraw the congressional map, it will create 5 new seats in the home, conservative seats. That spells catastrophe for Democrats who took a political beating in the course of the 2024 election the place they misplaced each the Home and the Senate. At the moment, there isn’t any promising Democratic candidate for 2028. If the occasion loses the White Home once more, and the Republicans seize management of the checks and balances by way of gerrymandering, there might probably be a number of extra years for conservative rule in America. MAGA doesn’t die with Donald Trump. The seeds have sprouted. As dangerous as it’s now, it might worsen. Don’t sleep. Keep woke.
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