New Initiative Takes ‘Maximum Warfare’ To Dems’ Racist Congressional Districts
'This is not the time for half measures,' said Marshall Yates, director of the REPAIR Initiative gearing up to challenge race-based districts.'This is not the time for half measures,' said Marshall Yates, director of the REPAIR Initiative gearing up to challenge race-based districts.What Missouri Republicans Got Right And Virginia Democrats Got Wrong In Redistricting
Missouri Republicans followed the law to the letter, while Virginia Democrats ignored their state’s constitution.Virginia Democrats Are Back In Court For Deceptive Abortion Amendment
The same court that struck down Democrats' illegal gerrymandering this spring is now weighing the legality of Democrats' misleading abortion ballot.NAACP calls on black athletes to sacrifice as political strategy: 'It makes no sense'
The NAACP is calling on black athletes to withhold their talents and financial support from public universities in Southern states that the group believes are “minimizing" the "right to vote.”
“They’re asking for black athletes to boycott Southern schools,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says on “Jason Whitlock Harmony,” before playing the clip of NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson giving a speech about the boycott.
“No representation, no revenue. No one black should be on a playing field of institutions that’s living off of our labor and yet in states that are seeking to reinstitute a sharecropping reality. It is not the responsibility of black America to hold individuals who should know better accountable for doing better,” Johnson said.
“As soon as the United States Congress stands united to ensure our Constitution represents all of us, we will be a better nation as a result. NAACP this morning, in solidarity with the CBC, we are calling on athletes who are coming out of high school not to attend any state-funded schools of states that have moved to minimize our right to vote, to minimize our ability to elect candidates of our choice, and states that are seeking to create a sharecropping reality,” he continued.
“Whether that state be Missouri or Mississippi. Whether that state is South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, or Florida. 55% of all African-Americans live in the former Confederate South. But the 55% of us who live in the former Confederate South, we will not tolerate a Confederate mentality on our labor, on our ability to contribute, and our ability to have representation,” he added.
Johnson went on to repeat the talking point that “our democracy is in crisis,” and Whitlock and his panel are not amused.
“They want players who’ve worked all their lives to achieve an opportunity to go to a four-year college of their choice and play football — they want them to be stripped of that opportunity in order to, I guess, hurt the institutions and cause the institutions to capitulate,” Virgil Walker tells Whitlock.
“So what are the players who are not going to school — what is that going to result in? It’s not going to overturn anything that the Supreme Court did. It’s not going to change the gerrymandering that’s been happening on both sides of the political landscape,” he continues.
“It’s not going to change any of that. So the black players are to give up all of that for what? It’s absolutely unclear, and it makes no sense,” he adds.
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By Democrats’ Standards, Virginia Redistricting Lawyers Should Lose Their Jobs, Licenses, And Life Savings
What is unfolding is not just partisan hardball but the normalization of constitutional lawfare, justified because it is by the left.Democrats Weaponize Virginia Gerrymandering Loss In Their War On SCOTUS
Democrats are always looking for ways to advance their radical agenda, even in the face of defeat. So, it was no surprise when the “party of democracy” immediately used its humiliating redistricting loss in Virginia as part of its ongoing war against the U.S. Supreme Court. The vicious onslaught began on Friday after SCOTUS rejected […]Ex-GOP congressman tries to save Democrats from losing redistricting war — but Hakeem Jeffries doesn't want his help
Rep. Kevin Kiley was elected as a Republican in 2022 to represent California's 3rd district in the U.S. Congress.
After the Golden State's Democratic gerrymander effectively reduced to nil his chances of getting re-elected with an "R" next to his name, Kiley filed to run as an independent in the nonpartisan primary for California's newly drawn 6th district.
'This arms race could create a new norm.'
"I've always seen my role as being an independent voice for our community, holding politicians in Sacramento and Washington accountable to serve my constituents. I answer to you, not party leaders," said Kiley, who had a 77.42% lifetime score in Turning Point Action's rating system.
On his way out the GOP door, the newly minted free agent complained about gerrymandering, noting that "both parties are complicit" and that "political division has become a serious problem for our country."
Kiley — one of the few casualties on the right of the redistricting war that Republicans are now winning in a big way thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Callais — is asking Democrats to help him pass a bill that would prohibit states from engaging in mid-cycle redistricting and changing their congressional maps more than once a decade.
The former Republican told Axios on Wednesday that he has written to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, asking the radical Democrat and his cronies to support a discharge petition that would force a vote on his ban.
"This arms race could create a new norm where maps are redrawn to gain a temporary advantage every two years," Kiley wrote to Jeffries. "The result will be chaos for our democracy: a weakening of representation, a further polarization of Congress, and a deepening of the distrust and division that threaten our country's future."
Some Democratic lawmakers who, like Kiley, are on tilt after having their districts redrawn, are receptive to the idea of a ban.
Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), for instance, said he'd sign on, noting, "Why wouldn't I? Both parties need to get behind ending this. It's gonna kill the democracy."
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D), whose Kansas City-based district lawmakers transformed last year into a GOP-leaning Missouri seat, is another desperate lawmaker supportive of the ban, stating that "of course" he would sign onto the discharge petition.
Jeffries — whose help Kiley acknowledged was critical to the petition's success — apparently has no interest in helping the independent with his crusade.
Christie Stephenson, a spokeswoman for Jeffries, told Axios, "Kevin Kiley's unserious legislation would supercharge partisan gerrymandering by Red states while putting Democratic-led ones at a serious disadvantage."
"Leader Jeffries has no plans to support it," Stephenson added.
This is at odds with Kiley's statement earlier this month, where he noted, "Minority Leader Jeffries has announced he supports my proposal to prohibit mid-decade redistricting."
Former Democratic Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee (Texas), who passed away in 2024, introduced the same legislation to ban mid-cycle redistricting in the last Congress.
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