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“The Supreme Court says we can use political partisanship to do congressional redistricting,” said state Rep. Todd Hunter, a Corpus Christi Republican and the bill's author. "We will push forward."
WTF.
We are so screwed...
No we're not screwed. Yes the fascists are trying to solidify their tenuous hold but we will push back even harder and make their lives hell in every possible way, and fight to get back our representation as a whole. Stop with this defeatist bullshit and do something.
we will push back even harder
Tell that to the Texas Dems who couldn't even hold out against this for a full month
One, the Texas quorum denial has never worked. Two, they held out until they had buy-in on a nationwide response. Three, they did actual hold out until the end of the special session. Abbott then just called a new one. So, unless your win conditions were "Texas Dems abandon their homes and lives until governor gives up and cries in shame", then they were moderately successful.
Texas Dems abandon their homes and lives until governor ~~gives up and cries in shame~~
Has their seats declared vacant and appoints MAGA sycophants who pass the redistricting.
Hardly a win condition for the Dems, but yeah. That's why quorum busting in Texas fails.
Stop with this defeatist bullshit and do something.
Like what?
Lemmy wouldn't let me edit my comment so adding a new one:
Also never acquiesce or give in without resistance. Always resist. They want you too paralyzed, terrified, and demoralized to do anything and want you to have anticipatory obedience. They want you to think since you're just one person you can't do anything so why bother. Do not give these fucks one inch. Always resist and don't comply ahead of time.
There are a million ways you can research because you have the internet.
Off the top of my head: organize locally (and online, though online is more risky for infiltration), attend protests, fund groups in resistance lawsuits (ACLU, NRDC for climate stuff, etc.), join mutual aid networks, constantly call your local congressperson and attend town halls. Educate yourself and share truth when confronted with mis/disinformation in your own real life, get others you know to involved and help them understand the predicament we're in, rather than what they see on Fox or Newsmax or Tiktok.
Then there are the more extreme things that I wouldn't condone such as providing the implicit threat of violence to back up whatever the peaceful protests are advocating. The Far Right in America has done that part very well in the past 15 years.
Its time everyone that is not MAGA makes a coalition. Every day is fucking obscene.
Comments like this that seem to be giving in smell an awful lot like psyops.
Dude, it’s a political arms race. Even if your chosen party wins, everyone loses. The worst part is that I can’t see a better move. We are no longer between a rock and a hard place. We’ve been shoved through and created a crevice in the hard place
I hope this backfires terrible for Texas
Right into the back of Abbott's head, I hope.
We sure are sounding a lot like the US in the late 1840s and early 1850s, in this context. Also we're sounding like Europe in the 1920s and 30s.