Texas Republicans propose new US Congressional map with more winnable GOP seats

Texas has pulled this shit just about every decade since its founding

Gerrymandering was happening before Texas was a state; they're following the example set by other states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

Printed in March 1812, this political cartoon was made in reaction to the newly drawn state senate election district of South Essex created by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the Democratic-Republican Party. The caricature satirizes the bizarre shape of the district as a dragon-like "monster", and Federalist newspaper editors and others at the time likened it to a salamander.

The word gerrymander (originally written Gerry-mander; a portmanteau of the name Gerry and the animal salamander) was used for the first time in the Boston Gazette[b] on 26 March 1812 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. This word was created in reaction to a redrawing of Massachusetts Senate election districts under Governor Elbridge Gerry, later Vice President of the United States. Gerry, who personally disapproved of the practice, signed a bill that redistricted Massachusetts for the benefit of the Democratic-Republican Party. When mapped, one of the contorted districts in the Boston area was said to resemble a mythological salamander.[8]

Texas became a state December 29, 1845, over 30 years later.

I also doubt that the above incident was the first case where people tried redrawing congressional district boundaries to benefit. Just the one where the commentary on it stuck well enough to leave the name.

Meanwhile, Dems had the fully power of the Federal Government in 2009 and again in 2021 and... did nothing.

INB4 libs insisting democrats never actually had any power

They wouldn't need Gerrymandering if that were the case. They are doing this because they are still afraid of voting. Don't preemptively build the apathy they want from us.

They want people not to vote because while Gerrymandered maps make things more difficult, but far impossible to overcome. Hell sometimes gerrymandering backfires and leads to more flips when done poorly or there's a big enough wave against the party. Don't equate it as fully gone. That's doing their dirty work for them

Can confirm. My grandmother was murdered by conservatives.

Oh yeah but that stuff has been somewhat limitedly done in the chicago area. Im talking about striping chicago into the whole state. Now granted im kidding but if they are going to do these things with texas and florida im not so sure its not the way to go.