{"id":1520,"date":"2025-08-21T08:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:05:06","slug":"texas-house-republicans-just-helped-trump-rig-the-midterm-elections-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"Texas House Republicans Just Helped Trump Rig the Midterm Elections \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"hero is-image \">\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-caption\">House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, gavels Sine Die, ending the special session after failing to reach a quorum, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, in Austin, Texas.  (AP Photo\/Rodolfo Gonzalez)<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">Rodolfo Gonzalez\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mj-text-cta\">Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\">Sign up for the free <em>Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"section-lead\">After weeks of delays, protests<\/span>, and threats of arrests, the Republican-led Texas House on Wednesday passed a highly contentious redistricting plan that could give the GOP five additional seats in the US House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is racial gerrymandering at its worst. It is something that Jim Crow would be proud of, but it is something that John Lewis would be ashamed of,\u201d Rep. Al Green told <em>Mother Jones<\/em> during the House proceedings, \u201cThat Dr. King would be ashamed of that. The former president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was from the state of Texas, would be ashamed of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"WqG2l1xvIt8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rep. Al Green on Texas: \u201cThis is racial gerrymandering at its worst.&quot;\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WqG2l1xvIt8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As my colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/08\/texas-democrats-flee-state-trump-rig-midtersm-abbott\/\">Ari Berman wrote<\/a>, the Trump-backed plan amounts to an effort to \u201crig the midterm elections before a single vote has been cast.\u201d More than 50 Texas Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5435394-here-are-the-texas-house-democrats-who-broke-quorum\/\">fled<\/a> the state for nearly two weeks to delay the vote\u2019s proceedings, prompting Gov. Greg Abbott to threaten Democrats with arrest. But Texas Democrats had no other choice but to leave the state to prevent Trump\u2019s Texas takeover. Here\u2019s what former Attorney General Eric Holder told Ari:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn this moment of democracy survival, people need to be prepared to do anything in order to ensure that our constitutional system of government continues to exist,\u201d former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder told me on Monday. \u201cThe authoritarian move that was dictated to Texas by the White House needs to be opposed by any means necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Democratic protest eventually came to a close as Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/08\/18\/texas-democrats-return-redistricting-map-illinois\/\">returned<\/a> to Austin on Monday. But new drama quickly unfolded, with Republicans prohibiting Democrats from leaving the Capitol building unless they were accompanied by a police escort. Rep. Nicole Collier refused these terms and was forced to stay on the House floor for two days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose of you who feel like this is okay, get ready for the fight,\u201d said Rep. Barbara Gervin-Hawkins during her dissent. \u201cBecause the fight ain\u2019t over. It\u2019s not over until we\u2019ve energized America to save Democracy.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/08\/texas-house-republicans-just-helped-trump-rig-the-midterm-elections\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, gavels Sine Die, ending the special session after failing to reach a quorum, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo\/Rodolfo Gonzalez)Rodolfo Gonzalez\/AP Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. 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