‘Gerrymandering On Steroids’: How Republicans Stacked The Nation’s Statehouses

Voting rights is infrastructure of democracy & if Dems don’t act now to protect GOP will gerrymander back control of House & lock in anti-democratic control of states like TX for next decade. Amid budget fight don't lose sight of huge stakes for democracy https://t.co/3C9nREHI2l

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 4, 2021

My op-ed with @electionsmith where we do a deep dive into the Florida legislature's contracts with its redistricting consultants to ask: what are they hiding? https://t.co/e1Dm4B0GP2

— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) October 7, 2021

Why do gerrymandered districts look so weird? https://t.co/dki01uma4v

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) June 21, 2019

Rep. Ronny Jackson: "We have redistricting coming up and the Republicans control most of that process in most of the states around the country. That alone should get us the majority back." pic.twitter.com/45U4dFyibh

— The Hill (@thehill) June 18, 2021

BREAKING: Election officials in Madison County quietly rezoned 2,000 Black & Hispanic voters out of a majority white precinct into an already-majority Black one.

Now, 3,670 mostly non-white voters must share 25 parking spaces and five voting machines. https://t.co/1onI4PQwhQ

— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) October 30, 2020

🚨 Gerrymandering Alert 🚨
Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle (R) told donors that Republicans must maintain their #ksleg supermajority so they can create gerrymandered state & federal districts to undermine the will of voters & ensure complete Republican control of the state. pic.twitter.com/g8CuYUThek

— Davis Hammet (@Davis_Hammet) October 9, 2020

Gerrymandering can discriminate on the basis of party, race or other pieces of identity politics. Watch this to find out how gerrymandering works and why one expert called it "the biggest and boldest investment in modern American politics." https://t.co/2XqOhrKZJ0 pic.twitter.com/XKt5UyGHwo

— CNBC (@CNBC) September 6, 2020

New court papers say the U.S. Census Bureau is ending the 2020 head count early by a month so that the process for calculating the number of people used for redrawing congressional districts takes place on President Donald Trump’s watch. https://t.co/rtPb966OcJ

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 27, 2020

Voters in 2018 overwhelmingly supported redistricting reform in 4 states. Now, Republicans are trying to roll back results. "You change the rules, you change the game and that's threatening to partisan politicians who gamed the system for decades," @JohnAvlon says #RealityCheck pic.twitter.com/Eq87KwUjTa

— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) August 16, 2019