#Democrats said they had no plans to heed the governor’s demands to return.

“He has no legal mechanism,” said #Texas Rep. Jolanda Jones, one of the lawmakers who was in New York on Monday. “Subpoenas from #Texas don’t work in #NewYork, so he can’t come & get us. Subpoenas in Texas don’t work in #Chicago. ... He’s putting up smoke & mirrors.”

#GregAbbott insisted ahead of the scheduled session that lawmakers have “absconded” in violation of their sworn duties to the state.

“I believe they have forfeited their seats in the state Legislature because they are not doing the job they were elected to do,” he said in the FauxNews interview, invoking his state’s hallmark machismo to call the lawmakers “un-Texan.”

“Texans don’t run from a fight,” he said.

Speaking Monday on FauxNews, #GregAbbott essentially admitted to the partisan power play, noting that #SCOTUS has determined “there is nothing illegal” about shaping districts to a majority party’s advantage. He even openly acknowledged it as “#gerrymandering” before correcting himself to say #Texas is “drawing lines.”

The #Republican dominated #House issued civil #ArrestWarrants intended to compel the return of absent members, but it was not immediately clearly whether those can or will be enforced beyond #Texas borders.

House Speaker Rep. Dustin Burrows urged #Democrats to return to “fulfill your duty.”

“If you continue to go down this road, there will be consequences,” he said.

#HakeemJeffries on how #Democrats will respond to the #Texas #redistricting scheme: "We are going to respond & respond forcefully, however we also will operate within the constraints of the #VotingRightsAct which is not what the Texas Democrats (sic; he meant #Republicans) are doing. We need fair maps & one national standard.”

#HakeemJeffries on the #Texas #redistricting scheme: "These extremists want to be able to choose their voters as opposed to allowing the Texas voters to choose the people who should be privileged to represent them in Washington. It's #theft. That's what #gerrymandering in its extreme form is."

The #Texas #House can conduct business only when two-thirds of its 150 members are present. At least 51 of the chamber’s 62 #Democrats will need to boycott the session to prevent #Republicans from acting on the new map. The lawmakers could return a couple of days before the special session ends Aug. 19 & use other stall tactics, but any success could be short-lived as #GregAbbott can immediately call another 30-day session.

#Texas #Democrats have twice deployed the same tactic to combat #legislation in the 22 years since #Republicans have controlled all of state government, but their efforts ultimately failed. This time, Democrats plan to stay away for 2 weeks to run out the clock on a special legislative session called by Gov. #GregAbbott (R) to draw a map that would give Republicans 5 more #House seats.

#Democrats in the #Texas legislature said they were fleeing the state Sunday to block a #redistricting plan backed by #Trump aimed at preserving the #GOP’s slim #House majority, escalating tensions as a broader fight over congressional district lines unfolds throughout the country ahead of the 2026 #midterms.

#Update

#Texas #Democrats to flee state, blocking plan to pad GOP’s control of #Congress

By leaving, Democratic state legislators can stall a #Republican plan that would give the #GOP 5 more seats to protect their narrow #House majority.

#law #gerrymandering #Trump #rigged #midterms #elections
https://apnews.com/article/texas-democrats-leave-state-congressional-map-vote-b8b96080dfae00111664bbfb72fc304b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-03-Breaking+News

3/3 #Israel #ESF #EBU #rigged #propaganda #gaslighting

en deze:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phuxruHIABo #Gaza #FreePalestine
#genocide

2/2 #Israel #ESF #EBU #rigged #propaganda

Zie ook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otjl4rhnLPw #Gaza #FreePalestine

This is a short (14 minute) segment from The Humanist Report that covers a lot of the same ground I was writing about concerning Trump's very serious plan to violate the US Constitution and serve a 3rd term as president, and also his executive order designed, quite obviously, to rig elections. I've always been a person who needs to read words on a page or screen to really absorb analysis, but I know some of you learn better with the videos, so that's why I periodically share the good ones.

Like myself, the host is adamant that the mainstream establishment is fooling itself and engaging in wishcasting when it ignores the obvious reality that Trump, who just admitted he wasn't joking, fully means to do this. What he adds that I was trying to get at in my analysis but might not have made explicit enough if the pedantic pushback I heard from weird liberals is any indication, is that if Trump is working on illegally violating the constitution to run again, in an election he intends to rig, that means the regime is *already* attempting another insurrection (although technically, I think it would be another autogolpe.) Furthermore, if the regime were to hold such an election under those circumstances, it would obviously not be an election at all, but the consolidation of fascist regime change in the United States of America.

The Humanist Report: Trump is Dead Serious About Becoming a Dictator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Hcygb30Yw

#Fascism #Trump #Elections #GOP #SteveBannon #Rigged #Video #OnePartyRule #VoterFraudIsntReal
#MikeFigueredo #Dictatorship #TheHumanistReport #USPol

Whether it's acceptable to mention it in polite discourse or not, the fascist GOP's plan to formalize national targeted voter suppression based on fascist conspiracy theories designed to explain why a bloviating reality TV show nazi lost the 2020 US presidential election, is a form of election rigging. We've already discussed Der Führer's recent (blatantly illegal) executive order to do just that, but the Republican plan to fuck elections and create their own permanent Pork Reich is a multi-pronged assault. One of the key spearheads in this quest to, again, rig elections by disenfranchising millions of voters who are statistically more likely to support the opposition party, is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or Save Act, currently being cooked up in a GOP fascist-controlled Congress.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/congress-republicans-save-act-voting-rights

Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of voters

"According to research by the Brennan Center for Justice, more than 21 million US citizens of voting age don’t have easy access to proof of citizenship documents, and only about half of American adults have a passport, while millions do not have access to paper copies of their birth certificates. Married women whose legal names do not match their birth certificates could be disenfranchised by the Save Act, and folks looking to obtain lost or misplaced birth certificates would face financial and logistical hurdles.

The Save Act would restrict voters’ ability to register to vote online and through the mail while also severely limiting the ability of non-partisan civic organizations to conduct voter registration drives, which have been crucial to civic engagement for more than a century. That’s because, despite voters’ ability to register to vote at the DMV and registration efforts by political parties, data shows that voter registration drives from non-partisan organizations can account for about one-fifth of voter registration applicants – roughly equal to the political power of California, Florida and Texas combined. We simply cannot sit back and allow Congress or the White House to destroy the infrastructure of our elections by disenfranchising so many voters."

Look, I know Trump's unhinged fascist conspiracy theories about the 2020 election make most liberals very leery about uttering the words "rigging elections" but at some point you have to accept that you can't stop reality from being real, just because naming the beast makes you squeamish. Targeted voter suppression by the GOP has become so normalized that in a recent(ish) battle over election maps that clearly sought to minimize the political power of African American voters, GOP operatives defended themselves from charges of racial bias by saying they weren't restricting voters because they're Black, but rather because they vote Democrat. This is election rigging, by a fascist regime, headed up by a would-be King who keeps musing about violating the Constitution to seek a third term, and it's probably time to be honest with ourselves about what that actually means - an attempt to permanently install the US Republican brand of fascism in our society by preventing free and fair elections (such as those exist, in America.)

I mean let's cut the crap here for a second okay? The Save Act specifically targets voter registrations drives because the fascist GOP is openly arguing that registering people to vote, is somehow rigging elections. Let that sink in for a minute folks; a fascist regime is trying to rig elections through nationalized voter suppression because, and they essentially admit this, if everyone gets to vote they might lose power. The fact that this type of thinking and rhetoric is considered "normal" for the right wing party in America doesn't prove these guys aren't fascist, just that America has been embracing, normalizing, and ignoring fascism for a very long time before Donald Trump ran for office.

@DemocracyMattersALot this crap got kicked into high gear, at least for WI, around 2011. Since these kinds love to stick together, I'm sure the process was rolled out anywhere across the nation in states with similar legislative control.

The pubs locked themselves in a room playing MoneyBall with census numbers and continued ratcheting them in their favor. Until, recently, when they were actually allowed to be moved into some semblance of impartiality, and you know what, seats actually flipped!

#MoneyBall #rigged #vote

https://www.wpr.org/shows/mappedout/how-2011-political-district-map-changed-game-wisconsin