Texas Republicans set to Gerrymander Black Voters out of power to not lose House in Midterms #BothSides UPDATE: PASSED!

[RamsayBolton]

Texas House approves redrawn maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections

Texas’ House of Representatives is approving a new map that creates up to five new, winnable congressional seats for the GOP.

apnews.com

The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday kicked off a heated debate over a new congressional map creating five new potential GOP seats that is expected to pass the chamber later in the day as part of a growing national redistricting battle.

The plan is the result of prodding by President Donald Trump, eager to stave off a midterm defeat that would deprive his party of control of the House of Representatives. Texas Democratic lawmakers delayed a vote for 15 days by leaving the state in protest, depriving the House of enough members to do business.

The Texas State Senate, also controlled by Republicans, needs to also pass the map and GOP Gov. Greg Abbott must sign them before they become official. The House debate was expected to be the lengthiest and greatest obstacle to the Republican push, but both parties expected the legislation to ultimately pass given the GOP’s significant majority in the chamber.

Texas’s New Map Is Racial Division by Another Name

"Maps like this do not merely entrench a party; they entrench a racial hierarchy," writes Texas State Rep. Vince Perez.

time.com

data from the Texas Legislative Council indicates that the congressional lines Republicans are rushing through Austin manages to somehow knit 90% of the state’s white voting power across that entire expanse—while slicing Latino and Black communities into pieces so small they have little power to choose their own representatives.

Latinos now make up a larger share of Texas’s 31 million population than in California, the state often considered the Latino capital of America. Texas also has more Black residents than Georgia, despite Georgia’s reputation as a center of Black political power. Nearly 60% of Texans are people of color, and 95% of the state’s population growth in the past decade has come from those communities.

Here’s the blunt math on the Texas Republican proposal: under this map, my team and I estimate it would take roughly 445,000 white residents to secure one member of Congress, but about 1.4 million Latino residents and 2 million Black residents to secure the same

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Update:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/texas-republicans-redistricting-maps.html

 

[Tair]

Then they'll scream "the people have spoken" as if they didn't do everything to rig it

 

[RamsayBolton]

also we getting closer to balkanization

 

[At30wecashout]

Unfortunately they were successful in a lot of states with disenfranchising black folks which makes it more puzzling that those who can do it say fukk all that shyt. And for the people who says "90% of black folks votes for Dems" or some shyt, thats of those who SHOW UP! Our turnout is abysmal.

also we getting closer to balkanization

Yup. It's looking more and more likely because its clear a lot of Republican's don't care if their ideas work, they just want to live under them. That will drag the whole country down.

 

[MoshpitMazi]

There's more registered Democrats in Texas than Republicans

 

[DetroitEWarren]

There's more registered Democrats in Texas than Republicans

Abd it's not close, it's about 60/40 on that tip and has been for years. Probably the same in Florida where some of the dumbest people in the world reside at, but you will never see it because they will just make a crooked ass map and kill your power.

 

[boogers]

glad somebody updated this gif

too bad mexico caught a stray via bad photoshop

 

[RamsayBolton]

glad somebody updated this gif

too bad mexico caught a stray via bad photoshop

 

[RamsayBolton]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/texas-republicans-redistricting-maps.html

Passed

Black voters increasingly disenfranchised in Texas #RacismOutInOpenIsBetter #BothSides

 

[50CentStan]

Texas state level government is top 2 worst. The other being Florida. Ran by complete idiots.

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

in 2025? figured they would have done this 200 years ago

 

[Phantum]

Get out of Texas.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

There's more registered Democrats in Texas than Republicans

I saw that on reddit....but Texas has open primaries.

You don't have to register party affiliation. Lots of "independents" and "libertarians" are just Republicans that don't go to church or believe in God.

Dems would win with just native born Texans but all these Cali, Illinois, NYC etc., transplants are keeping the state Republican.

 

[newarkhiphop]

Yes indeed fam

 

[skylove4]

All of the bothsiders here are undeniably agents like @HarlemHottie and fakkit agents like @The Realist Perspective or just plain c00ns like @Uachet. Also anyone engaging with them in good faith are either agents themselves are dumber than they think they are call out all c00ns and agents in every thread like this. @ the bytches