Gavin Newsom threatens to move forward with redrawing effort as Texas attorney general seeks removal of group of 13
The Republican attorney general of Texas on Friday asked the state supreme court to vacate the seats of 13 Democratic legislators who have left for blue states, hours after their absence once again delayed a vote on a redrawn congressional map sought by Donald Trump.
Republican leaders in Texas had set a Friday deadline for Democrats to return to the state capitol in Austin or face punishment, including arrest and possible removal from office. Dozens of Democrats left the state over the weekend to prevent a Republican redistricting effort, requested by the president, to redraw the Texas maps mid-cycle, as part of an effort to secure a Republican House majority in the 2026 midterms.
The aggressive redistricting effort has set off a chain reaction in other states, including California, where the governor has vowed to retaliate with a congressional map that would “nullify” the Republican effort to redraw five Democratic-held districts in Texas.
Don’t think they ever have been
Never forget that Texas was brought on into the US in the push for getting more slave states so that they could gain control over the federal government.
Rotten roots.
Texas was stolen from Mexico by Americans who wanted to flee taxation and when they settled and were told they couldn’t keep slaves, they took the land from the Mexican government and then chased out local tejanos who helped them split off from Mexico. Texas was founded on not paying taxes and keeping slaves.
Seems to me that they’ve dusted off their ol’ slave playbook, wrapped it in an American flag and sold it to these uninformed or willfully ignorant folks who are willing walking themselves to the slaughters ramp as they laugh as the brown cows in first completely oblivious to that they are next in line… it’s hard (at least for myself) to justify any sort of empathy (they hate it anyways) for them or the plights. I realize I’m becoming so desensitized to everything where it’s beginng to take its toll on trying to inform these people who are so willfully ignorant. I hope if we do make it out of this that we don’t make the same mistake that Sherman and our government did by letting these fascists, traitorous assholes escape justice and if not by government than the people. If ICE want to play “brown shirts / black shirts“ they can find out history ended for most them since they’re so much against education /end rant
On this front, it’s the meme with the astronaut with the gun to the other one saying “Always has been.” The only time they haven’t had it wrapped in the American flag was when they actively broke off.
I’ll say on the educating people… I’m done with it now. I live in a red state, and I’m going now by the philosophy I wouldn’t talk to people John Brown would have killed.