"Yes" wins in Virginia --
I share the sentiments of people who felt like they had to vote "yes" and then take a long shower.
It's terrible for democracy to have so few competitive districts in the House but it would be more terrible to have the GOP hang onto the House. And it may be that some of these districts that are gerrymandered turn out to be competitive by accident. At least a couple of Texas's five "new" GOP districts are shaping up to be close races.
As usual, anti-democratic stuff started with Trump.
I wish there were some objective measure that the partisan distribution of voters in district in a multi-district state can't exceed some threshold. I've said it many times before, the Supreme Court had the chance to put the brakes on this in Rucho v. Common Cause in 2019 but passed on it.
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"It's our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller's and Noem's dirty lies."
designed to expire in 2030
I think sophisticated voters knew they needed to counteract the Texas bullshit with this stop gap measure. Hopefully they can pass some meaningful anti-gerrymandering measures after this.
Even more than CA Yes on 50, this election was rife
by Joe I 
, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 20:37 (9 hours, 48 minutes ago) @ Jay
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with disinformation. Thankfully, Obama and a handful of other high profile figures recorded messages that they were strongly in support of this measure, and pointed to the temporary nature of the initiative in these extraordinary times.
Congratulations to the entire Say Yes team for making this happen.