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California Democrats back Newsom plan to redraw congressional maps for 2026

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California Democrats Back Newsom Plan to Redraw Congressional Maps for 2026 | KQED

Democratic leaders in the California Legislature on Friday threw their support behind Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to bring a potential redraw of the state’s congressional districts to voters in November.

Newsom has urged lawmakers to join a national fight over congressional district lines that could help determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections. The governor’s call for maps favoring Democrats appears to have won over legislators after some expressed early concerns about an accelerated push to set aside California’s current nonpartisan district boundaries.

At a press conference in Sacramento, California Democratic leaders appeared alongside legislators from Texas, who fled their home state to delay a Republican-led redistricting effort aimed at boosting the GOP.

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I’ll believe it when I see results because we all know what happened when he told us he’d stand up to PG&E
While I strongly agree this needs to happen, I'd also put 50/50 odds at Trump ending congress before he complies with a democratic speaker. He'll declare it an insurrection, and institute martial law first.
- Did you see the leaked memo about using the military against Americans? He's goimg to take over regardless
  
  Of course, although I'm given hope by the fact that they can't fill ICE recruitment. They're going to have bigger problems with the military, much worse than they already saw in California.
Good.
I really don’t like the direction this is going; two wrongs don’t make a right. No matter which way things turn out now it’s going to make anti-gerrymandering laws more difficult in the future, either because everyone’s doing it or the GOP has gerrymandered any opposition out of existence.
- I get your worries, but "we go high" is how we ended up with fascism, and doing it again is how we kill democracy.
  
  My worry is making Democrats safer in their districts will necessarily coincide with those Democrats being less accountable to their constituents and more beholden to large money interests. I guess it's better than not fighting, but things will likely continue to get worse on both sides of the aisle.
  
  There's "we go high", which is basically an arrogant form of meekness; there's "gloves off", which is fighting aggressively without being completely unethical and antidemocratic; and then there's "if they can do it we can", that eliminates all standards of conduct, ethics, and morality in favor of a race to the bottom that fascists will inevitably win.
  I know you think that blatantly partisan gerrymandering is the middle one, but it's actually the last one. Especially when you consider the fact that third parties and independents will likely lose some if not all of what little opportunity they have left in the Neoliberal stronghold as a result.
  
  So fucking true. Well said.
- it’s going to make anti-gerrymandering laws more difficult in the future
  You don't get it. This had already happened. This is the courts' doing Democrats need to start using maga's tactics against them or we're all sunk.
  
  The future was 20 years ago. Way past that point
- Lol, this isn't new. The GOP has been doing it for ages.
- We could ban the GOP from American politics for having a coup.
- I really don’t like the direction this is going; two wrongs don’t make a right.
  All to appear ostensibly progressive without alienating their oligarch patrons.
- The CA the ballot measure isn’t indefinite and the people control whether or not it continues.
  Also worth noting that the initial rules against gerrymandering were put in place via a ballot measure, not by the elected representatives.
  I’m all for this shit if the people continue to have a kill switch.
- Thank you for enabling the rise of fascism. You’re doing your part bootlicker!

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