(#6287) Redistricting vote in Virginia tomorrow

      The attempt to gerrymander red state districts is being met with resistance! Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, and Texas, gerrymandered their maps in 2025 to give republicans a favorable extra 9 districts for the House of Representatives. So California decided to gerrymander their map in order to give democrats 5 favorable extra seats. The California gerrymander will only last until the next census in 2030, then it reverts back to the independent commission to draw the maps. Currently Virginia is about to finalize a vote on doing the same with their districts. If passed the Virginia maps will only last until the next census in 2030.
     The republican party started this attempt to give themselves more opportunities to pick up congressional seats so California and hopefully tomorrow, Virginia will counter the republican move. If Virginia does pass then their 4 plus the 5 from California will cover the previous gerrymanders of Texas, Ohio, North Carolina, and Missouri. There is still one other red state voluntarily working to change their maps and that is Florida. They could pick up between 1 to 5 favorable districts through their effort. Other states are under judicial review over their maps and some may change one way or the other. But those who are voluntarily changing their maps still give republicans at least a few favorable options.
     For me this is why the temporary redistricting in Virginia being voted on tomorrow is so important for democrats. The republican party started this mid decade gerrymandering in order to protect trump's majority in the House instead of letting the people decide. Democrats wisely countered that move to try to negate the attempt. We all know this midterm gerrymandering is not fair but if one side is going to use it to oppress us then we have to counter their move to thwart their attempt. There is no high ground here only survival. The republicans will go scorched Earth to hold onto their power and we the people had better be ready to go scorched Universe to stop them!