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🚨 LMAO! Democrats are so panicked they didn't even spell "VIRGINIA" correctly as they move to appeal to the literal US Supreme Court, in a bid to revive their 10D-1R gerrymander "Virgnia" It's also rife with errors, including "Sentator" Whoever drafted this up was clearly frantic, as Democrats were hoping their cheating would be upheld for the midterms 🤣 Dems are now asking the VA Supreme Court to defer their mandate, pending SCOTUS ruling — which is very unlikely

Video Summary: "Virginia Supreme Court DELIVERS DEVASTATING BLOW Main Topic The video discusses a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that struck down newly Key Details from the Ruling The court invalidated the redistricting process because it violated the Virginia Constitution (specifically Article 7, Section 1). As a result, the old 2021 court-drawn maps (roughly 6 Democratic seats to 5 Republican seats) will be used for upcoming elections instead of the new Democrat-favorable maps. The new maps would have shifted the balance dramatically to approximately 10 Democratic seats to 1 Republican seat by consolidating rural conservative areas. Host's Perspective (Black Conservative Perspective)...

Virginia Democrats won a narrow victory that could turn into a black eye for the party. In a clip posted to the social media platform X, former Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine reported that leading Democrats in the Old Dominion believe their redistricting plan, approved by voters last month, will not survive in court. "What I was told is they now think it's less than 50 percent that the court will let the certification go through," Turrentine said in a clip posted to the social media platform X. "The time, they don't believe, is on their side," he added moments later....

The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Louisiana v. Callais et al has inevitably drawn strong criticism. In ruling that electoral districts cannot be redefined along racial lines, the Court stands accused of “gutting” the Voting Rights Act, crippling civil-rights law and effectively disenfranchising minority voters. But the Court’s decision was correct on the merits. It also represents a great retrenchment that’s taking place in American politics. The rules by which our political system operates have been overdue a revision – not the rules codified in the Constitution but the thicker web of precedents and practices that have served as a...

Republicans are cheering a circuit court victory in Virginia that showed Democrats' redistricting efforts in Virginia are not quite ...

In 2020 Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to lose Virginia twice since William Howard Taft. Then in 2024 Trump lost once more, this time to Kamala Harris. Now he has in effect lost it a fourth time as Virginia voters approved on Tuesday a fiercely contested referendum redrawing congressional districts to favor Democratic congressional candidates in the 2026 midterm elections. “This is really a country election. The whole country is watching,” Trump said. If so, it watched Trump suffer a major blow – one that will prompt renewed questions about his political acuity and judgment. It was...

Democrats scored a major victory on Tuesday as a congressional redistricting referendum that could give Democrats a significant boost in the battle for the U.S. House of Representatives majority in this year's midterm elections was passed by Virginia voters, the Associated Press reported at 8:49 p.m. ET. The ballot measure gives the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature — rather than the state's current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election. It could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia's congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge. That would give the Democrats four additional left-leaning U.S. House...

Democrats approved a new congressional map in Virginia on Tuesday, the latest skirmish in a redistricting arms race that will help determine which party wins control of Congress in the midterm elections. Leading up to the Virginia vote, Republicans had amassed a cushion of newly drawn Republican seats through gerrymanders in Texas, North Carolina, Missouri and Ohio. Democrats countered with a gerrymander of their own in California, and courts in Utah gave Democrats an unexpected new district in the deeply red Western state. That meant that going into Tuesday night, there were between eight and nine new Republican-leaning districts, and...

Virginia prop losing in initial reports

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will hold a rally in Texas on Saturday opposing the state’s redistricting efforts alongside local Democratic lawmakers, days after Golden State voters backed a measure to redraw their own congressional districts. Texas was the first of several red states that followed President Trump’s directive to change their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms. Though some blue states considered redrawing their maps through the legislatures, Newsom elected to have voters choose if California should proceed with his plan. “California stepped up. Now, we are taking this fight across the country — helping Democrats in other...

Would you care to guess how many of those 21 Congressmen are Republicans, representing that 41 percent of the population that voted GOP for president in 2024? Can we talk about gerrymandering? A year ago, in the six New England states, 3,095,520 people voted for Donald J. Trump. That works out to just under 41 percent of the overall electorate. Next statistic: New England has 21 of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Would you care to guess how many of those 21 Congressmen are Republicans, representing that 41 percent of the population that voted GOP for...

As Californians start voting on Democrats’ effort to boost their ranks in Congress, former President Obama warned that democracy is in peril as he urged voters to support Proposition 50 in a television ad that started airing Tuesday. “California, the whole nation is counting on you,” Obama says in the 30-second ad, which the main pro-Proposition 50 campaign began broadcasting Tuesday across the state. “Democracy is on the ballot Nov. 4.” The spot is part of a multimillion-dollar ad buy promoting the congressional redistricting ballot measure through the election. Proposition 50 was spearheaded by Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California...

Former President Barack Obama and California Governor Gavin Newsom are urging Californians to vote in favor of Proposition 50, a ballot measure that would replace the state’s independent redistricting system with a legislature-approved map projected to eliminate several Republican-held congressional districts. On Tuesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom posted on X, “Listen to @barackobama,” sharing a new video featuring former President Barack Obama encouraging voters to support Proposition 50 in the state’s November 4 special election. In the video, Obama says: “California, the whole nation is counting on you. Democracy is on the ballot November 4. Republicans want to steal enough...

Former President Barack Obama is begging California voters to back Governor Gavin Newsom’s gerrymandering bill in a desperate attempt to counter redistricting efforts in Republican-controlled states. The GOP-led redistricting efforts were launched in response to a “census error” that undercounted predominantly red states, thus costing congressional seats and electoral votes, as well as Democrat-led gerrymandering in stated like Illinois and Maryland. After Texas formally introduced a mid-decade redraw of its confessional maps that phased out five districts currently controlled by Democrats, Newsom responded by announcing that California would be doing the same. The California governor’s plan is controversial, as the...

The Democrats’ hackneyed falsehood that Republican gerrymandering in Texas is racist and will end American democracy is not only hysterical – it’s hypocritical. While gerrymandering is ethically impaired, it has been part of U.S. politics for more than 200 years, and a mainstay of Democratic Party ...... According to Article I, “[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations….” The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment provides that “[n]o State shall...

Past proponents of this idea look to the text of the 1845 congressional resolution annexing Texas: “New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas and having sufficient population, may, hereafter by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution.”

DONALD “TACO” TRUMP, AS MANY CALL HIM, “MISSED” THE DEADLINE!!! CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE “BEAUTIFUL MAPS,” THEY WILL BE HISTORIC AS THEY WILL END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY (DEMS TAKE BACK THE HOUSE!). BIG PRESS CONFERENCE THIS WEEK WITH POWERFUL DEMS AND GAVIN NEWSOM — YOUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR — THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR “MAGA.” THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GN

Gavin Newsom is letting the Chinese buy up Pacific Palisades land.. American contractor works in both the Pacific Palisades and Altadena area and confirms Chinese nationals are calling him and asking to buy up 5-6 lots at a time He says China is buying so many properties, it’s “going to turn both Altadena and Pacific Palisades into the type of neighborhoods where you drive down and all of the signage is in Chinese.” “Do you know who's buying up all of the property in the LA fire zones? It's the Chinese. And I've avoided saying this for a while because...

Democrats rigged the 2020 Census. There are 20-30 Democrat seats in the House that would NOT exist if illegals weren't counted. Let's fix this.

Indefensible.. In a baffling turn of events, the media actually questioned whether Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is really qualified to be the standard bearer against gerrymandering on account of his state being more rigged than a south side backroom poker game. KRISTEN WELKER: I do want to look at the map of Illinois. Let’s take a look at this: despite President Trump winning 44% of the statewide vote in 2024, Republicans hold only three of Illinois’s 17 districts. These districts seem to be to maximize Democratic advantage. What do you say to those who argue that it’s hypocritical for you...