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Congressional Black Caucus Demands Corporations Oppose Voting Rights Rollbacks

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Around 200 of the corporations that received the letter had pledged to protect voting rights five years prior.

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'He's bad news': Republican says Trump's endorsement made him vote for other candidate

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'He's bad news': Republican says Trump's endorsement made him vote for other candidate

Texas Republicans headed to the polls Tuesday in a make-or-break Senate runoff — and for at least one voter, President Donald Trump's endorsement didn't seal the deal. It backfired.CNN caught up with two Republican voters outside a Plano polling location on Election Day, and their reactions to Trump's last-minute backing of Attorney General Ken Paxton told two very different stories about the state of the GOP.The first voter said Trump's endorsement was the deciding factor — pushing him away from Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, and toward Paxton. "I was torn because I was gonna go with Cornyn," he said. "But when Trump backed [Paxton] — I like who he backs."The second voter went the other way entirely."I made one vote, and that was for Cornyn," he told CNN's Arlette Saenz. "Primarily because he's not supported by Trump."When Saenz pressed him, he didn't mince words. "I think he's ruined my Republican party," he said of Trump. "I think he's divided America. I think he's bad news. And I still lean Republican, so I voted for Cornyn."NOTUS White House reporter Jasmine Wright, appearing on CNN, said the exchange captured a split that's playing out statewide. "You're literally seeing the 80-20, 70-30 split that we see represented in polling," she said, adding that the White House is banking on the majority holding. "This question that we continue to ask — whether or not Trump still holds a vice grip on the Republican Party — continues to show us yes, yes, and yes."Trump amplified that grip Tuesday morning, resharing a post urging Texans to "Get the RINOs out now" while calling Paxton the country's best attorney general.Cornyn, meanwhile, made his closing argument on Fox News, hammering Paxton's scandal-ridden record. "Texans have learned that you can't trust what Paxton says," he said, citing Paxton's impeachment by a Republican-led House and a $6.6 million whistleblower judgment against him.The winner faces Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in November. Polls close at 8 p.m. ET.

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Spencer Pratt is right — the homeless problem is mostly about drugs

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Spencer Pratt is right — the homeless problem is mostly about drugs

Cities that allow and encourage substance abuse, such as Los Angeles, do see more people living and dying on the street.

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Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters

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Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters

Alabama is likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would likely cost Democrats a majority-Black district.

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Federal Judges Block Alabama From Using Racially Gerrymandered Congressional Map

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Federal Judges Block Alabama From Using Racially Gerrymandered Congressional Map

The panel had been ordered to review its decision on the map after a recent SCOTUS ruling gutted the Voting Rights Act.

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South Carolina Senate rejects Trump's call to redraw congressional map

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South Carolina Senate rejects Trump's call to redraw congressional map

The South Carolina Senate has rejected President Trump's push to redraw the state's congressional districts in hopes Republicans could gain an extra seat.

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Trump Judge Rejects Bid to Block Tennessee’s New Congressional Map That Eliminates Racially Gerrymandered District

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Trump Judge Rejects Bid to Block Tennessee’s New Congressional Map That Eliminates Racially Gerrymandered District

A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a bid to block Tennessee's new Congressional map that eliminates a racially gerrymandered district. The post Trump Judge Rejects Bid to Block Tennessee’s New Congressional Map That Eliminates Racially Gerrymandered District appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Florida congressional map survives first court test

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Florida congressional map survives first court test

A Florida judge kept Gov. Ron DeSantis' new congressional map alive Tuesday, allowing the state to implement a Republican-friendly plan while three state lawsuits continue.Why it matters: The national redistricting fight is a race to pre-write who controls Congress before voters ever see a ballot. Control of the U.S. House could turn on seats manufactured in state capitals as part of a mid-decade redistricting war started by President Trump.In 2010 nearly 63% of Florida voters approved a ban on partisan gerrymandering, but DeSantis' general counsel told lawmakers the state doesn't have to abide by that ban.The latest: The ruling by Leon County Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes, a DeSantis appointee, keeps DeSantis' map in place while the lawsuits continue and election officials prepare for the 2026 races.The fight likely ends at the Florida Supreme Court, where DeSantis appointed six of seven justices and all seven were appointed by Republican governors.Hawkes found plaintiffs had not shown a substantial likelihood of success, writing that mapmaker Jason Poreda's use of partisan data was circumstantial evidence, not direct proof of illegal intent.He said forcing Florida back to its 2022 map on a rushed record would be improper, especially with the state's election machinery already underway and the primary less than three months away.The big picture: DeSantis' map lands in a national redistricting fight that is moving fast and mostly in Republicans' direction.The U.S. Supreme Court strengthened GOP arguments against race-conscious districts.Virginia's pro-Democratic gerrymander was struck down by its state Supreme Court. Louisiana is expected to convert one of its two Black Democratic seats into a Republican seat. Tennessee has already eliminated its last Democratic, Black-majority seat.Flashback: DeSantis already remade Florida's congressional map once.In 2022, he vetoed the Legislature's map, pushed lawmakers to pass his own and helped produce a delegation of 20 Republicans and just eight Democrats.This year, his office drew the replacement map, sent it to lawmakers and provided Axios a version colored red and blue by partisan performance.Catch up quick: All three state lawsuits challenging DeSantis' map have been consolidated before Hawkes.At Friday's hearing, plaintiffs leaned on DeSantis' mapmaker Jason Poreda's statements that he drew the map "not having to comply with the Fair Districts Amendment" and used "partisan data" for "every district."DeSantis first unveiled the map to Fox News by pointing to Florida's shift from a Democratic voter registration advantage "to a 1.5 million Republican advantage."GOP state Rep. Tom Fabricio posted on X: "Done correctly, this will strengthen Republican seats, help keep a GOP majority in Congress to advance solid policies and stand up to the woke left."The other side: The state argued the court has no power to block the map and that changing maps this close to an election would confuse voters.That timing argument has an obvious tension: The state is defending a map enacted months before the primary.Although the Fair Districts Amendment bans any districts "drawn to favor or disfavor" a political party, the state argued plaintiffs had to prove the Legislature, not just the person who drew the map, was biased.The state doesn't argue the map improved districts' compactness or other requirements under the Fair Districts Amendments. But it says the map was roughly comparable on those metrics.What's next: Plaintiffs already filed notices of appeal, and the lawsuits will continue to trial.Judge Hawkes wrote the challenge "is more geared toward the 2028 or 2030 election cycles than the 2026 election cycle."The bottom line: DeSantis' efforts to upend Florida Democrats' districts looks likely to hold for at least the 2026 election.This article has been updated with more comment from Judge Joshua Hawkes and further context.

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Prominent journalist argues backlash against a black woman contributed to Kamala Harris’s 2024 loss

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Prominent journalist argues backlash against a black woman contributed to Kamala Harris’s 2024 loss

Former Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank believes he’s figured out why former Vice President Kamala Harris lost in 2024. For Democrats, the mystery of Harris’s profound electoral […]

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