Texas Democrats have relocated the fight to Illinois and New York, building a public case that this redistricting crisis isn’t a local quirk but a dawning national crisis. At stake, they’re arguing, is whether the rules can be rewritten state by state to manufacture Republican majorities in Washington. So far, national Democrats are taking the crisis seriously, but it’s unclear how they will respond. Will we descend into a tit-for-tat redistricting war between red states and blue states with high-profile partisans like Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom as their proxies? Or will we move toward a system buttressed by pro-democracy interventions like independent redistricting boards? The outcome depends greatly on how organizations, labor unions, and regular people organize at this moment.
The labor movement seems to recognize both the opportunity and the responsibility inherent in the current crisis. State AFL-CIO bodies from Texas to California to New York released a joint statement calling the Republican coup what it is: a coordinated attempt to disempower working people. Other labor unions have rightly joined in, claiming the redistricting fight as a working-class fight. Grassroots groups, meanwhile, have begun to stage protests outside of the Texas State Capitol in support of the Democratic walkout.
If the quorum break fizzles and becomes memory instead of momentum, Republicans will only be emboldened to escalate their strategy, and our country will race closer to full-on authoritarianism. But if students, workers, tenants, and local organizers join in to name redistricting as their fight too, that will keep the pressure on. Right now, this issue is strictly an electoral standoff. We need to bring it down to the ground level, generalizing the popular understanding that our democratic rights and working-class power are at stake.
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Democrats have to tread carefully to avoid revealing to the slack jawed public that Democrats invented jerrymandering and have been doing it since 1812.
This was before the parties switched platforms, so it is not the slam dunk you think it is.
Same party. the “party switch” is a myth. The Democratic party of today is the same Democratic party of slavery, Jim Crow, and jerrymandering.
It’s not a myth, that’s just something Republicans say to blame their past doings on the Democrats of today lol.
The Democrats used to be the party of small government, and Republicans the party of big government. Refusing to believe history doesn’t make you any less wrong.
Also you keep misspelling “gerrymandering”. If you can’t even learn to spell it how do you expect people to believe you understand it?
It very much is a myth. The Dixiecrats didn’t become Republicans. They remained Democrats and mentored the next generation of Democrats. Al Gore Sr was a flaming racist and his son almost became president. Some like Robert Byrd acted like they were distancing themselves from Democrat hate groups like the KKK, but Byrd’s voting record still shows he clung to his racist ways by systematically voting against black appointments, especially non Democrat ones.
Also, you don’t found a new chapter of an organization you don’t believe in and Democrats still preach white supremacy. They merely call it “white privilege” now.
Continue being in denial all you want but the parties absolutely switched platforms. Everything else in your comment was a deflection from you being wrong about this point.
Both of yall stop slapfighting. You’re both arguing specific points that don’t necessarily contradict and there’s room for nuance on either side. Provide a source and remember the human.
I would love to provide a source but going off this particular user’s history it’s likely they will not accept it in good faith. If it is actually being requested I would be happy to oblige.
You’re right, it would be nice if we could refrain from juvenile namecalling or whatabouting.
You are correct there is nuance involving when party platforms switched, but not that the platforms switched.
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