Texas house pushes forward on redistricting as Democrats vow to fight
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Lawmakers travel to Illinois, New York and elsewhere to stop vote on Republicans’ redistricting plan

Texas Democrats in the state legislature denied its speaker a legislative quorum Monday by leaving the state, forestalling plans proposed by the White House to redistrict Texas’s congressional lines to more greatly favor Republicans.

Democrats hold 62 of the 150 seats in the legislature’s lower chamber, so as long as at least 51 members remain out of Austin, the Texas legislature cannot move forward with any votes, including a plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps to give Republicans five more seats in Congress.

In an extraordinary escalation, the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, said he he had ordered the Texas department of public safety to “locate, arrest and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans”

  • naught101@lemmy.world
    41·
    11 days ago
    1. Wut
    2. I didn’t make this map
    3. I don’t think anyone thinks that, but that doesn’t invalidate the fact that Christianity (especially evangelical) is highly correlated with one political party in the US, and it’s spatially heterogeneous
    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 days ago

      Christianity (especially evangelical) is highly correlated with one political party in the US

      Now here is where I get righteously angry.

      Conservative Christians make up roughly 20% of the Christian population. I know you don’t believe this or really understand the implication

      You have been lied to by the media’s constant portrayal of the worst aspects of Christianity, as well as you and your friends memery. The majority of Christians are not conservative, so saying Christianity and parenthesizing ‘especially evangelicals’ implies the opposite.

      The problem is none of you ever bother to think about the Christians living quiet lives and trying to be like our savior because ONE FUCKNUGGET gets on the news with a ‘god hats fags’ sign has gotten all of your attention.

      There’s really no point in discussing any of this, atheism is a cultural disease, not an individual choice.

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
          12·
          10 days ago

          Every single conservative Christian votes trump because they are conservative, not because they are Christian

          They then build grand justifications in their head independent of all facts that align their conservative vote with their Christian framework. It is so funny to watch them justify the actions of a pedophile rapist who spits on everything Jesus taught.

          The thing is, not every non-conservative Christian votes, and not everyone votes Democrat.

          So even though we are 80% of the population of Christians, we make up less than 40% of Christian voters

          The thing is, only 27% of the population identifies as a conservative Christian, with the total population being around 64%, meaning 37% of non-conservative Christians outnumber conservative Christians

          but most vote 3rd party or don’t vote at all

          I don’t really blame cheetolini’s supporters, they don’t really have conscious thought and just follow whoever is the biggest and loudest on the repugnican ticket

          I really blame never-Harris progressives, non-voters, and 3rd party voters of which the majority of remaining Christians are.

          I on the other hand am a blue voting theistic Christian and I"m done with being treated like shit by the rest of you progressives

          • naught101@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 days ago

            If 27% of Americans identify as conservative Christians, and 64% are Christian, that means 42% of Christians are conservative, not 20%…