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The South's Gonna Do It Again. Gerrymandering

May 10, 2026

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Trump is not popular. He knows he is going to lose the House and maybe the Senate in the midterms if the people are allowed to vote and have their votes counted.

Trump has nothing to do with lowering prices or fixing a broken health care system. Trump is about enriching Trump, protecting his grift and his own behind.

Everyone seems to know this. That is why there is cheating going on. Racial and Partisan Gerrymandering mid-census. Democratic districts are being broken into pieces and folded into Republican districts to dilute the black “democratic” vote. The South’s gonna do it again.

Of course this is about race. Just recently Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh writing for the majority Supreme Court said ICE could profile people by race, accents and language. So, let’s not pretend they didn’t.

Tennessee Breaks Up the ONLY Democratic House Seat to Punish Black Voters

Black Disenfranchisement Has Not Been This Intense Since Jim Crow | Truthout

Matt Brown reports for the Associated Press-MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — For 21 years, Steve Fowler and Sam Wilson have performed together in a band on Memphis’ renowned Beale Street. And for the past decade, the men have been neighbors on a quiet, leafy avenue.

But as of Thursday, they will no longer cast the same ballot despite living across the street from each other.

That’s because Tennessee’s Republican-controlled legislature redrew the congressional district of Memphis, which has long enjoyed its own Democratic-leaning U.S. House seat. Now, the city is split into three Republican-leaning districts, its majority-Black population sliced up and bound to mostly white, rural and conservative communities along lines that branch away from Fowler and Wilson’s East Memphis neighborhood.

A line runs down the middle of the street, placing Fowler in the 8th Congressional District, which runs hundreds of miles to central Tennessee across a dozen counties. Wilson is zoned for the 9th District, which extends across most of the state’s southern border before curving up to encompass the largely white and affluent Nashville suburbs.

“I think it’s horrible,” said Fowler, who is white. “This isn’t just going to be bad for Black folks in Memphis, but poor whites in these new districts also aren’t going to get services. How are any of these congressmen going to serve all these different counties?”

WE VOTE. THEY DECIDE?

Virginia Map Overturned by Virginia State Supreme Court in the Middle of Voting!!

Virginia lawmakers were considering a constitutional amendment that would let Democrats redraw the state’s electoral map.

Many Virginians had already voted early in those elections.

The court majority argued those early voters may not have known where candidates stood on the amendment when they cast their ballots.

So the concern was about voter awareness and timing? That’s what the Virginia Supreme Court ruled. I’m 800% sure this ruling will be appealed.

No one can explain it because it’s inexplicable.

And then there’s the new Florida gerrymander just approved by the Republican State Legislature BUT…Floridians VOTED TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION TO PREVENT THIS IN 2010!!

TRUE! Fifteen years ago, in 2010, Florida voted to amend the state Constitution to prevent redistricting based on party or race and set additional rules about gerrymanders. It passed with 63% of the vote. There were two Constitutional Amendments. They were called the “Fair Districts Amendments.” Most of us called it Amendment 6.

Those two constitutional amendments added language to the Florida Constitution saying districts cannot be drawn “with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or incumbent and that no district be drawn to deny racial or language minorities the equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect representatives of their choice.” It also required districts to be contiguous, compact, and equal in population where feasible, using existing boundaries when possible.

WE VOTED!! It passed. It’s part of the Florida Constitution! constitutionalinitiatives.dos.fl.gov.

NOW, in 2026, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office has proposed a new congressional map that opponents say violates the Fair Districts Amendments. The map, approved by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature, could shift Florida’s congressional delegation from 20–8 Republican–Democrat to 24–4 Republican–Democrat

Lawsuits filed by Equal Ground, Common Cause, the NAACP and the UCLA Voting Rights Project, seek to block the map from taking effect.

Democrats, voting-rights groups, and some legal scholars — say this is essentially ignoring the will of Florida voters and violating the Fair Districts amendment. These cases center on the Fair Districts Amendment’s prohibition against drawing partisan districts and the map’s partisan outcomes.

Whether those maps are constitutional under Florida’s Fair Districts rules is now being fought in court. Elections for the 2026 election cycle in Florida have already begun with various deadlines only weeks away.

The Presidential Preference Primary was March 21, 2026.
Florida’s regular state primary election (for governor, Congress, state legislature, etc.) is August 18, 2026.

Important deadlines for the August primary include:

Voter registration / party change deadline: July 20, 2026
Early voting: generally begins around August 7–8, depending on county
Vote-by-mail request deadline: August 6, 2026

Florida is a closed primary state, so you must be registered with a political party to vote in that party’s primary.

Ohio voted in 2015, 2018 against partisan gerrymandering and in 2024 voted NOT to replace their current map drawing process.

In Ohio, voters rejected a 2024 ballot initiative that would have created a fully independent redistricting commission. That means the existing system stayed in place, where elected officials and the Ohio Redistricting Commission still control map-drawing.

So, when Ohio later redistricted, state leaders were not overriding a voter ban on redistricting itself. Instead, voters chose not to replace the current system.

The existing constitutional structure remained, and lawmakers/commission members retained authority to redraw maps under that structure.

Ohio already had years of litigation over maps after the 2020 census. The Ohio Supreme Court struck down several Republican-backed maps as unconstitutional under anti-gerrymandering reforms voters had approved earlier in 2015 and 2018. But federal courts ultimately allowed some disputed maps to be used anyway because election deadlines were approaching.

That’s why it’s so confusing:

Ohio voters previously approved anti-gerrymandering standards, then rejected a stronger independent commission, leaving their current system in place, while courts and lawmakers continued fighting over what the constitution actually permits.

So, the state can still redistrict because the power to do so never disappeared; the dispute is over who and how and under what constraints the maps are drawn.

Parse much?

You get this. You voted against this, and here we are, once again living with this, in a race to the bottom of the fairness and democratic barrel.

Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina may be next on “the drawing board.”

These states were so racist that under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Section 5, they were required to submit any voting-law changes, voter ID rules, redistricting even moving polling places, for federal “preclearance” at least 60 days before they could take effect. When lawyers talk about “Section 5” or “Shelby,” that’s what they mean.

In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court struck down the preclearance requirement those states had to submit to.

That is why you are seeing map changes so close to if not during elections. Section 5 is still needed!

We already learned years ago that the Supreme Court has been purchased.

Federalist Society | Founding, Membership, Agenda, & Supreme Court | Britannica

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has the receipts. SEE BELOW

But we haven’t lost a thing YET.

IF every Democrat registered and showed up to vote in November along with every Independent, maybe joined by the share of Republicans who’ve had enough of this we take back the house and likely the Senate as well. Trump gets impeached and removed and we get a fresh start. A chance to remedy the poison being injected into the system. A chance to be FREE again.

Guess who knows that?

If you’re fine with a bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court, a Justice Department that won’t prosecute white-collar crime or sexual violence, and masked men detaining or shooting Americans in the streets, then you already have the government you deserve. Stay home.

If you’re NOT fine with a dirty Supreme Court, another endless Middle East war, $5 gas, $10 ground beef, and ICE agents at polling places, then vote like your rights depend on it — because they do.

We still have the last word on this election.

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