It’s Not Our First Gerrymandering or Redistricting Rodeo

Liberty Nation News ^ | Aug 7, 2025 | Graham J Noble

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The fight over the Lone Star State’s congressional map heats up, but we have all been here before.

From the moment Democratic state legislators fled Texas to prevent the redrawing of congressional districts, the word of the day – on every day that it’s not Russiagate or Epstein – has been gerrymandering. What is it? Why is it called that? How can you tell if your congressional district was gerrymandered? And why, apparently, is it only Republicans who do it?

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Aug. 6 petitioned the Lone Star State’s supreme court to remove Gene Wu, who chairs the House Democratic Caucus. Wu and around 50 other Texas Democrats left the state on Aug. 3 so that Republicans couldn’t advance new district maps because they would not have a quorum, or the minimum number of members required to conduct legislative business.

In a letter to the state’s highest court, Abbott wrote, “If a small fraction of recalcitrant lawmakers choose to run out the clock today, they can do so for any, and every, Regular or Special Session, potentially bankrupting the State in an attempt to get their way.”

Democrats, however, are taking their temporary self-exile seriously, with Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones claiming that not standing up to the so-called gerrymandering could lead to another Holocaust. “I will liken this to the Holocaust,” Jones told CNN outcast Don Lemon. “People are like, how did the Holocaust happen? How was somebody in a position to kill all them people? Well, good people remained silent.”

Gerrymandering With a Hard ‘G’

When state legislatures – or independent commissions or even judges, depending on the state – redraw their congressional districts, it is called redistricting, strangely enough. Except when Republican-controlled states do it, Democrats refer to it as gerrymandering. That word (with a...

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[healy61]

Gene Wu was born in China. How many federal office holders in America were born in foreign countries? I think there are a lot.

[j.havenfarm]

I stopped when the author asserted both parties are responsible for gerrymandering because MA Governor Gerry was A member of the “Democratic Republican” party. That party was the direct ancestor of the Democrat party, essentially just a name change, but not of the Republican Party. Anyone who is going to be a political
Commentator can’t be credible if he is ignorant on so basic a point

[ro_dreaming]

The Democrats have done it for decades. There are multiple states that have ZERO Republican representatives. Eat sh!t, DemoKKKrats.

[DeplorableTrumpSupporter]

The Texas Communists (er sorry, Communists are at least honest, I meant Democrats) flee to Illinois, the state where I’ve seen better lines on a child’s drawing. Really, it is fine if you gerrymander, but not us, Dems? Screw you...