An expansive network of labor juggernauts and Democratic-aligned groups is pledging to help the campaign to gerrymander California’s congressional map with its ground game and field operation.
An expansive network of labor juggernauts and Democratic-aligned groups is pledging to help the campaign to gerrymander California’s congressional map with its ground game and field operation.
Wonder when he will burn the rest of LA down?
Good and hopefully they also help the other blue States it doesn't just stop with California just like it doesn't stop with Texas we know the game
Go Team, Go!
Lol, when Texas does it, you fascists in the media call it, "redistricting." When California does it, you call it, "gerrymandering." Here's your Goebbels bobblehead award.
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Politico apparently, is very sad about this development.
I think this is fair play considering what Texas is doing, but Newsom needs to be doing far more. He didn't try to force out the National Guard, didn't prevent any police brutality during the LA riots, has thrown trans people and homeless people under the bus, and is not trying to stop ICE raids.
Newsom and Pritzker are great. Dems can attract the normal Republicans (RINOs). Mamdani, AOC and Bernie don’t understand basic economics.
Nope, the “RINOS” are only that other than in the voting booth. When it comes to elections they will ALWAYS vote GOP.
Let's go!!!
Trump is seriously flirting on how to steal the election youtu.be/BTPS0Ze-ZH4?...
Flirting is not the right word.
Vote! Please don’t stay home!
The other side is already out of the gates. I received 3 different flyers opposing the plan in the mail today.
9 blue states average 36% Republican voter registration and have 0 GOP Congressmen. The D’s are already knee deep in unfair redistricting.
It must be done.
Sounds fair to me.
I get and appreciate this tit for tat. But pls keep in mind it is bc lawmakers and the Supreme Court will not make Gerrymandering illegal that this is happening. Folks, establishing voting districts in accordance with political gain is the beginning of the end of this democracy.
You are still trash I see.
The race to the bottom in the American cesspit.
GTH, Politico @politico.com
Had to read this post 3 times to get the meaning.
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I hope California doesn't stop at 5 seats. They should just leave one Republican seat and gerrymander the rest blue.
Chomping ?
@politico.com can use the word #gerrymander in the correct sense for @democrats.org bravo 👏 Does it work also for the #gop #maga #altreicht ???‼️
I wish California would succeed and become part of Canada. A girl can dream...
California Democrats are not gerrymandering; they are saving democracy. It is up to the people to vote for it. Just remember what we’re up against: Stephen Miller calling the Democratic Party a “domestic extremist organization”
They have a mission. What can we do? This is what you can do!
What else are we supposed to do to fight this fascist dictator and his minions? Trump, like he attempted to do in Georgia, started it. Unlike many in democratic leadership this is at least something.
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aka cheating to win
Did you really write that as a headline? Can you s*ck off Trump any harder!
I know, right? Politico, founded by Reaganites, funded by Reaganites and cohorts, catapulted to the top of the list as a respectable news source by corporate media. This Liberal hasn't been fooled since their start up in 2007.
Somehow, Politico has managed to maintain that “above it all” veneer, however…they are anything but.
They’ve as partisan (in this case, any side that takes the corporatists side) as any other news outlet but not as in your face as Fox.
Or maybe its just them reporting the facts
So Politico tells the truth?
Even broken clocks are right twice a day.
When you see the door to defeating your enemy open, walk through it.
Did y’all describe it like this when it happened in Texas?
Why aren’t you guys letting Butch Ware in your CA governor candidate forum? www.butchware4gov.com/media/voters...
You all might first take a look at financing the 10 swing districts texass created after their gerrymandering the 5 blue into red districts. It'd be a real hoot to make them pay for their idiocy. It'd be a LOT less hypocritical too.
Sending parts of the Armed Services to blue states under the guise of increasing crime is just a cover for setting up the blocking of voters in NOVEMBER elections. Redistricting may not work, but PROVEN right wingers in all parts of the military WILL follow orders to intimidate voters in November.
Wtf is “champing” at the bit?
Go go go!
Trump is dismantling democracy step by step and the democrats are sooo passiv. If the democrats behaviour is not changing, if there is no strong democratic leader than weithin a year there is no democracy anymore in the US! Same happened in Germany in the beginnings of the 1930…
Yes
Try fixing the problems in California for a change … or is that too difficult for the Nuisance?
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Something rotten in Austin triggered this via clause. Hypocrisy is the highest trait of the MAGAt/modern conservative, it is a feature, not a bug.
It disgusts me to be happy about gerrymandering, but this is where we're at. Once we take the country back from the folks trying to destroy it we're going to have to focus on putting rules in place to prevent gerrymandering by both rules going forward.
It's not gerrymandering if the voters in Cali approve of the new lines. Unlike Texas, where the right wing fascists told their voters FU. Wake tf up.
It's still gerrymandering. Which, in the long-term, needs to be abolished, and anyone participating it needs to be permanently banned from politics. Districts should be drawn fairly.
Agreed, but ya gotta kill a few rabbits if you want to make stew
There is no such thing as drawing districts “fairly.”
Federal regulations are needed to create a level playing field. These regulations aren't going to happen under a Republican congress. Therefore this emergency measure is necessary.
There are no fair districts under FPTP single-winner elections.
Tell that to the corrupt Republicans, they cheat at everything!
So the Dems should not gerrymander because you said so but the Republicans will do it no matter what you say. That's how the GOP cheats to win and continue to destroy our country from within. You understand that, right? Let's fix it AFTER we get our country back from these monsters.
Which part of "in the long-term" was lost on you?
"it's still gerrymandering" implies to me that you disapprove NOW. Is that not the case? Would it be great if maps were drawn by impartial 3rd parties so everyone has fair representation in our government? Yes. Will that ever happen? IDK.
Most voters don't give a flying pig Americans despise gerrymandering of any party at any time. Most Americans despise that Granny Killer Newscum. Used WWII Nazi war crimes Aktion T4 euthanize protocols on the states vulerable. Newscum & his killer followers belong with Denis Rader solitary.
Nothing says Democracy like advocating for gerrymandering. If the state has 40/60 or whatever, then that should be the representation. Why do so many states have zero GOP representation?
Support California - We Need their Majority!
I've gotten three mailers in opposition in three days.
It's "chomping", not champing.
Oh, please please please make a run for president! The country thought Harris was a joke, that’s what we need is bartender for president!!!!! I can’t wait to see her debate JD!!!
I see you show up to disparage every single Democrat mentioned as a possible candidate.No, the country did not think Harris was a joke. She had about 48.3% of the vote, Trump had 49.8. Don't rewrite what happened.
Please run this fuck for president in three years? Please please please. That would be more comical than Harris!!!!!
"except for trans people"
Everyone no exceptions
Newsom hates trans people and the homeless. He's a psycho.
GTFO politico
I hope they eliminate the grand old pedos completely. 👍
Chomping is the word
Good, counter gerrymander everything
Chomping
If CA voters are against midterm redistricting cA should do what red states do IGNORE THE VOTERS & REDISTRICT ANYWAY
No more fucking white male presidents!!!! FUCK THIS IDIOT!!!!
More of this! Fight taco with his own tactics and none of this bullshit higher road garbage being peddled in DC.
Our Tennessee family was able to make a small donation to the cause in California. We can't get a Democrat elected here so our hopes rest with Blue States like California, Illinois and New York. This is not a time to Play By The Rules when the other side Makes Up Their Own Rules.
Already getting the conservative propaganda, so they need to up their game.
About time to see someone hit back.
POTUS directed Greg Abbott (TX) to redistrict. The difference is TX redistricting is based on race (which is illegal)... CA is getting approval from its voters & hiring a nonpartisan independent group to redraw the districts. So... yeah, a stark difference from "~make me five more Republican seats~"
A appreciate the worthiness of this effort; are Californians going to support it?
Newsom is protecting CA people's voting rights, as Texas GOP carve up Black and Latino voters so GOP can cheat Texas. Demand to know why GOP created 400 anti voting laws? Save our #RightToVote Democrats are NOT gerrymandering . Has Politico sold out as ABC and CBS has.
I just got my second mailer telling me to side with Republicans
Fuck with the wrong state and you will get your balls cut off and handed back to you. Gavin Newsom is one of the smartest Democrats to crack the code of what democrats should be doing. Finally we have someone besides Obama that isn’t afraid to fight for our rights using brains over idiocy.
But the Terminator is against it. Great that he's all for non-partisan redistricting. He should go talk to Texas about it. Or Ohio. Or Utah. Or Florida. Or...
Cool, but they also need to lock up the Trump regime for crimes against humanity
Good.
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WE CAN DO THIS! But we're goona need some music and maybe a marching band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSTc...
Build the model. Prove the model. Share the model.
Of all the ways to resist the republicans, copying their fascist tactics is the least appealing
so, they’re cheating?
I hope they vet these groups! Too many Trojan horses and many Sinemas! @governor.ca.gov
good to see "champing" used properly!
Let's roll muthafckrs
Oh look dems fighting. STFU with the dem bashing
Sounds like texas couldn't even cheat well!!
Two wrongs do not make a right! I am not st all sure I approve of the Democratic Party following the Republican Party into the sewer :(
I think that can all be changed/reversed, but, in order to do that trump/ maga must be defeated. We must resist and fight any way we can. Newsom has left it up to the people of Ca, unlike Abbott. We need to take our country back before we can make it better.
Yes - I am very conflicted by the apparent need to descend to their level to successfully fight them :(
If the Nazis under Trump and Abbot play dirty, I'm sure the Democrats can outdo them. The Democrat hierarchy are disgracefully silent. It matters to me the other side of the pond because your Tangerine Turd and his Heritage Foundation puppeteers are encouraging our closet Nazis to rise up.
Good. Cause they are up against all that Tech Bro money.
Newsom is a transphobic piece of shit that hates the poor and loves to steal from the homeless. Fuck him and anyone who supports him.
good
Embarrassing. Newsom could just do this but instead puts it to a ballot measure so if it fails he doesn’t have to take responsibility. If we are fighting for our democracy, they sure aren’t acting like it.
No, California delegated that responsibility to a commission. It would be wrong of Newsom to goose-step all over bureaucrats for political expediency. That's called a dictatorship. Involving the people has benefits: They will combine their defenses, the next time their common foe attacks them.
So good to hear.
There’s no possible way Dems are banding together to get this tone.
The redistricting? They probably will. Newsom '28? Lord, I fucking hope not. There will be better choices.
Bingo. Newsom is good for now. But he has exactly zero nat’l appeal. Us Californians are well aware that he has an expiration date.
Actually I hate to tell you. He's gaining appeal. If he's the Nominee I am voting for Him.
Oh? And what rights will YOU be giving up to "save democracy," cis? Pick a better candidate.
😂😂😂. Bit*h they already took my Body Autonomy and my Daughter's. I understand how the fuck this shit system works though! Third party doesn't! Period! But keep coming for me as I fight my whole life and you know Absofuckinglutly nothing about me
Cool. Since it's not going to be different for us trans folk under either Newsom or Trump, I guess Democrats don't want our ≈3 million votes. Trump won by ≈2 million. Do the math, and vote for someone else in the primary. It's not difficult.
PS. If a Dead Democrat vs Drumpf, I'm going for the dead D. Seriously GFY
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Good luck with another Drumpf regime. They are definitely coming for the Trans community!! Bye bye 👋 ignorant one. The 24 election was stolen by the way.
Not the people in DC no but the people in government and those who agree with them will yes, it's sad in a way, the people elected to the highest positions are doing nothing while the people under them are trying to save the people.
The Republicans are already hard a work sending out their propaganda mail and hitting the phones.
Who in the fuck would have thought democracy was so weak. I rogue president who fills positions with loyalists and a republican congress and senate who put these traitors in place. The fucking bunch of them needs to go to prison. There better be trials for congress and senate members after this.
This headline is gerrymandered. 🙄
I think it’s time to go for the jugular in terms of protesting the big donors. We need to go after corporate America and big donors. Boycott the products until after the midterms. I need help with a list: Fox Politico Publix Cracker Barrel McDonald’s Target Walmart Squeeze them now!
And their hand was forced by Texas. Wah, wah, wah. I am SO GLAD Newsom is showing his balls lately.
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WTF is this ? You are all morons. Stop helping fascism.
Flood the zone QUICKLY and relentlessly.
Hey Gavin Newsom and California, be like Lithuania under the USSR and fight your subjugation under the oppressive rapefukkklican regime!
All sides of the left, and voters on the centre of the right, who are appalled at what Trump is doing to the US, must come together in a force to defeat the GOP. That means one thing. Vote Democrat, they are the only possibility of defeating Trump. Anything else will split the allies vote.
Gavin Gavin gavin!
LFG!
Hey, I’m from Texas, and we call it gerrymandering here, too, unlike this crappy article, so don’t even start trying to claim that someone has the moral high ground over California. You know where the stink started. Y’all suck. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Dumb question—we know the last census was problematic. Are there risks associated with using those data to gerrymander?
GO GAVIN AND LABOR GO!!!
Chomping * but I get it.
Good
This should be a slam dunk. Don't snatch defeat from the mouth of victory!
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Donald Trump is a felon and a rapist.
So crazy as these little bitches in Texas jumped on private planes and stayed in fancy hotels (on tax payer) to avoid doing their job yet people out here celebrating a state gerrymandering an already gerrymandered state. The only word that applies is hypocrisy
As of today, in CA there are 43 democrat seats and 9 republican seats. If the new map draw happens it'll be 48 democrats and 4 republicans. Do you know how to do math? What was that about twice as many democrats????? Look into Massachusetts. See the seat totals and then come back to me
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Yeah I am familiar with the math you speak of .. So fucking what? Look at Texas or Tennessee or NC and their "math". CA is an enormous state and it isn't the dems fault that the republicans spread themselves so thin they can't win 🤷♀️
I hear crying. Is it you? Yes it is.
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If for nothing else, thank you for champing not chomping. Lazy and drives me nuts.
Newsom for president!!! We don't have one now.
Have been getting mail bombed by anti-gerrymander groups in California. The latest six are from :Right Path California." Tossed them in the bin. Gavin has my vote for the temporary redistricting. These fliers are very convincing for a "no" vote if you don't know what is going on in the country.
Goes to show ya how utterly desperate they are.
This is how it's done. BLUE STATE GOVS TAKE NOTE AND GEAR UP.
Looking at you other democracy interested states. Fight fire with fecking lava.
CEOs are making 344 times what regular workers do. AI can be used to replace them. Where are the stockholders? A company needs good people who actually make a product or produce service to customers. Workers have to start 0% defect policies and make products to be proud of. Worker Revolution.
The Springer Group is right wing, and started with the German BILD-Zeitung tabloid, which is as bad as it gets in terms of fanning flames and distributing disinformation! Politico is part of this, but, like the Times newspaper in the UK for Murdoch, it's a figleaf for something more sinister.
They all read the room.
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52 Democratic Congressional seats!
endorsed with all my head, heart and hand.
Excellent!!!
It is not gerrymandering if the changes are done by permission of the people after a vote That's democracy
Something happened or it didn't: People's feelings are irrelevant. Gerrymandering is moving the district lines to create bias in the voting result. I don't have a problem fighting fire with fire, and want others to 'feel the heat'. I don't need to makes excuses like a Christian or a Republican.
Gerrymandering is done when a politician changes boundaries for electoral purpose with no reference to the voters Californium must give permission for any changes which is democracy
If ICE was so great Republicans would be demanding that they be en masse in their states. Texas has the most undocumented immigrants and is NOT DEMANDING THAT ALL ICE IN CALIFORNIA GO TO TEXAS. Media won't ask about that, are they on the side of Nazis? 2024: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
They are on the side of the Nazis because they worship Trump and Trump is a Nazi lover
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As usual. We support multiple Red states. Maybe we should cut off that lifeline.
The welfare red states are financially dependent on money they get from our successful blue states. And then they spit at us.
Let’s go every blue state…don’t be afraid…it’s a lot of fun and you’ll be saving our republic!! Win win!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I'm so impress that the headline says (correctly) "champing at the bit" , not "chomping"
Did AI write this? There’s no such thing as a “labor juggernaut,” but there is such a thing as billionaire-owned political media (you).
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Oh look Politico shows its true colors again
We support redistricting all Blue states!
Nothing says ‘fair play’ like slicing up democracy into bite-sized districts
Remember who started this.
Good
Can only be good. Stay together. Stay strong.
Good. I’ve grown incredibly tired of hand wringing.
Like Democrats haven't already proven that they're the gerrymandering experts??
Can we also stop funding Red States?! Its time they pick themselves up from their tattered, wasted bootstraps. Let's not think of it as cruel, but as an opportunity to allow their elected leaders to flourish and feel the effects of their votes. As a forever Californian, I support helping them grow.
I just received my first flier in the mail today, denouncing Newsom’s actions, so the labor+ groups better whip it up. Power to the people ✊🏾
YES! We, #Californians must #StandUnited on this issue. The various interest groups from the GOP/ MaGA billionaires have started distributing misinformation about it.
Would this be similar to the Republicans in Texas working with a felon to gerrymander the congressional map? Or with Florida? Indiana? Georgia? Would they be republican-aligned groups acting on the orders of a 34-ct felon rapist and pedophile are working to gerrymander these states?
I received an anti gerrymandering flyer in the mail today…CA…if CA can get this act passed against the $$ interests, then other Blue states can do it.
Dems need to make the entire vote a referendum on Trump: the best way to send a “fuck you” message to Trump is to redistrict California.
I wish they were going after more than 5 seats. Screw just trying to match Texas! Really take the fight to these sons of bitches. And every other blue state that CAN do this NEEDS to!
fuck to the YES
Newsom is a far from perfect man, but he's the only Dem who is seriiously fighting Trump's evil.
Why is Politico sucking the Fascist 🍄? When he's Dead no one will ever trust your Rag again!!! GFY!
Because its owned by one of his donors, almost all media in the west is.
We should also drum up support for Californias 'No Vigilantes Act', which would force ICE to show their faces.
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Excellent
CALIFORNIA HAS TO GERRYMANDER IT BY A 2 FOR 1🔊💯👏🏻🫂🤝🇺🇸👍!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I say go for the max you can get. Stack that shit. There's only one shot at this and even that's questionable. Go for a super majority in both chambers. Impeach Chairman Moo ASAP.
I want an America that works for the good of America not a party of red or a party of blue. This barely works and it is starting to crack. The dual party is schizophrenic, a Third political party of free thinkers will have more human voters than the 'duals'; what America do we want:+ or -
I sure hope so because I’ve already received 2 mailers encouraging me to vote against it. Dems need to get their message out ASAP.
They better start now, I’ve already received two mailers against it.
Me too. They took a quote out of context from the President of the League of Women Voters, making it seem as if they oppose the measure. They do not.
Same here. I’m keeping them and will work against any politician or group name that appears on them.
I've had one every single day since the assembly approved it
I think I've received six. From two different entities.
Me too.
I did too. That's why I'm not letting @votealexlee.bsky.social off the hook for publicly criticizing the proposal. He is a disgrace to all Californians.
Mailers from the right are not going to stop the fight against Trump. Not in California, not after he targeted our state by disappearing our residents. Hell, Newsom beat off 2 Republican recalls. We know how the right plays the game and no one is falling for it. Trump terrorized us, game on.
Bravo! Well Stated!
Exactly. MAGAts will always vote MAGAt and for fascism no matter what. They regularly only vote for their own demise. Those mailers are a waste of money on Dems.
May they waste ALLLLLLL of their money 🍀
Are you watching the country for the last eight months? It’s never been stronger. Biden fucked this country for four fucking years and you fuck are too ignorant to admit it.
You are completely and totally ignorant. If you think California represents the country, you are sadly mistaken. Maybe you should study the results of the election because you obviously have forgotten them.
And from what I can tell they are from 2 separate factions.
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Chomping at the bit? Champing? Play on words or what?
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Good for Newsom, but I doubt he will become President. The voters are sick of this fossilized gerontocracy of a Democratic party that has been so weak in the face of fascism.
true but no other groups have done anything else either. paralyzed nation
An actual 'campaign to gerrymander' is a blatantly existential threat to democracy to deliberately disenfranchise voters