Mini-Post: Absolute Power...

Corrupts absolutely!

How long have the Republicans controlled Texas? And now they want to solidify their power with gerrymandering of the Democratic districts... The Attorney General says take it or else!

Texas AG to Dems: Accept GOP Gerrymandering or I’ll Lock You Up

Attorney General Ken Paxton says he could “lock the doors” on the state’s legislature if it doesn’t approve a radical new congressional map.

The New Republic

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

July 31, 2025

Texas Democrats are facing a potential lockdown as they oppose Donald Trump’s legislative redistricting effort.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested Thursday that the state legislature could “lock the doors” on liberal-minded party members, trapping them into participating in a forced restructuring of Texas’s congressional maps.

“The House rules and the Senate rules both allow for these people to be arrested if they leave and ... they try to break the quorum,” Paxton told Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast Thursday. “The challenge is if they go out of state, we lose jurisdiction.”

The Republicans are power hungry fascists! Politico reported that the voters don't like the idea either.

A new poll conducted by Texas-based Z to A Research, which does polling for progressive clients, found that 63 percent of likely voters across 22 of Texas’ congressional districts — including 41 percent of Republicans — think the effort to redraw lines in the GOP’s favor is unnecessary.

“As the State Legislature cowers under order from the Trump White House, they need to know that voters are not on their side,” said a memo from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which commissioned the poll alongside the Democratic House Majority PAC.

The Democrats might have a wedge with...

In the memo, the DCCC accuses Republicans in the state of focusing on the redistricting effort instead of flood relief, which is another topic on the agenda for the legislature’s special session, which began on Monday.

Fifty-three percent of the likely voters polled thought that the legislature was prioritizing redistricting over flood relief, according to the memo, while 32 percent did not, and 54 percent also thought the Texas government is doing a “poor” or “not so good” job of responding to the flood damage.

This is going against the will of the people! The critics say that the Democrats gerrymander, yeah they do but not to this extreme extent.

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely!