VP Vance meets with Indiana GOP leadership on redistricting; Democrats denounce effort Vice President JD Vance spent several hours in the Hoosier State Thursday to meet with Gov. Mike Braun and other leaders about the possibility of creating more GOP seats with redrawn congressional bou...

Vice President JD Vance spent several hours in the Hoosier State Thursday to meet with Gov. Mike Braun and other leaders about the possibility of creating more GOP seats with redrawn congressional boundaries.

via @indianacapitalchronicle.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/vp-v...

Heroes.

Thanks to everyone who sent in questions on social media! Here’s my take on what everyday people can do to get involved.

"There's nothing about this circumstance that's legal." Janai Nelson, director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with Jen Psaki about why Donald Trump or Greg Abbott weaponizing law enforcement against Democrats who stand in the way of them rigging the Texas election map is illegal.

Trumpanomics

New week, new podcast episode! link.chtbl.com/FljWwM3T

Follow on all the platforms you’re on Democratic representatives from Texas and share their posts. Encourage others to share their posts. We need to stand behind the Texas Representatives.

Our focus should be on whats going on in Texas.

We should all follow Senator Elissa Slotkin. She’s calmly updating the public with brief concise relevant news updates simply and clearly. A+.

The perception is that members of Congress aren’t working for you. They have access to classified information and then go and trade stocks based on that information. It has to stop. Ban insider stock trading and ban Corporate PAC donations.

WATCH — rev barber : “I told some friends in Texas - you need to get in the streets now… They say ‘it’ll never fully work in America’ - no, it is working.”

Full: open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...

Such an important point:

“Progressive policies…are very popular in this country…but you have a segment of the Democratic Party that keeps trying to convince progressives we’re losing elections because their policies need to be more moderate.” Matt Dowd

I wish more understood this.

A confession…
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Meet Adam Kincaid: The Hidden Hand Behind the Texas GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab Read more here.

When it comes to redrawing America’s political lines in ways that secure and expand Republican power — especially at the expense of voters— Adam Kincaid is one of the most central yet overlooked figures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start. Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.

Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes.

Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.

(Published Oct. 2024)

We can’t lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year’s midterm elections. This is a power grab that undermines our democracy.

Rep Jasmine Crockett called drumf Temu Hitler. She is a national treasure.

UPDATE: Governor Abbott just threatened to REMOVE THE TEXAS DEMS FROM THEIR SEATS if they don’t return by 3pm Monday (so Republicans can steal 5 seats in Congress using a special session about the flooding as cover) — and charge them with FELONIES.

We are over the cliff.

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🚨 Texas Democrats just made history.

James Talarico and his colleagues walked out to block a Trump-led power grab.

They didn’t just break quorum—they shattered the authoritarian playbook.
Trump ordered 5 new GOP seats.

Talarico said: Not on our watch.
@jamestalarico.bsky.social

😂🤣😂 If only mainstream media was as brave as Southpark #arresttrump #iceout

Q&A: How Seattle's Democracy Vouchers Reduced the Influence of Big Money in Elections Next Tuesday, August 5th, Seattle residents will vote on whether to extend the program.

Seattle's Democracy Vouchers decrease the influence of big money and empower people in elections. @yesonprop1seattle.bsky.social

If you live in Seattle, get out and vote YES on Tuesday!

None of the Epstein/Maxwell survivors were notified of Maxwell’s transfer to the minimum security facility.

We are in the civil rights fight of our GENERATION! It’s time to be heard!!!! They may ignore us, but they need to HEAR US!

Please spread this far and wide! @repjasmine.bsky.social is
going to provide transportation to Austin on Friday to the Capitol.

Sign up! bit.ly/crocketttrip

Statistics for surgeons also coincidentally favors women surgeons.

Gerrymandering is the new DEI erasing tool. Cant win the area fairly? #gerrymander your way to power.

Also Rep. @algreen.house.gov offered a powerful intervention today. He challenged the press to see through Trump/Bondi’s ruse of claiming racism in Tx’s map to justify their call for this special session of redistricting.

Racism has been weaponized. Listen!

On Tuesday, Secretary of State for the State of Maine, Shanna Bellows, told the Trump administration to take a jump in the ‘Gulf of Maine.’

She is refusing to comply with Trump’s DOJ demand for voter’s detailed personal data.

We know Republicans are doing this to get ready for midterm elections.

TEXAS - TIME SENSITIVE: Spread the word! Instructions on what to do in her video.

Crockett, Green, & Visey all drawn out of their districts
& Casar & Doggett have to duke it out

no surprise they didn’t have maps last weekend

& less of a surprise
District hearings now in Austin, 2 days after map released

Jasmine 🚌 constituents to Austin- boss move

🔁 & help folks register

Across states, politicians are funneling taxpayer money into Christian nationalist agendas.
This is not a defense of “religious liberty.” It is an attempt to impose state-sponsored sectarianism in the name of tradition. Read : open.substack.com/pub/demcastu..., The Wall Is Crumbling.