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New York Congressional Maps Finalized— After All That Expensive Sturm Und Drang Not Much Changed
After stalling for a few days, MAGA Mike finally swore Tom Suozzi into Congress this week. After the ceremony, Suozzi delivered an...

Howie Klein
Mar 1, 20243 min read


NY Congressional Maps Still Up In The Air-- Ignores Extreme Gerrymanders in North Carolina & Florida
IRC Tries To Give A Leg Up To A Conservative Democrat In NY-22 New York’s bipartisan Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) released...

Howie Klein
Feb 16, 20244 min read


Is Wisconsin's GOP Giving Up Its Gerrymandering Advantage Just Like That? Don't Buy The Hype
Yesterday, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign's newsletter headline was Fair Maps Arrive in Wisconsin After Years of Partisan...

Howie Klein
Feb 15, 20243 min read


Nancy Mace Is An Embarrassment... And Kevin McCarthy's First Target
Stupid, selfish and long past his usefulness to anyone, Jim Clyburn intervened in the last South Carolina gerrymander— and not in a good...

Howie Klein
Jan 20, 20244 min read


The Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes A 4-3 Blow For Democracy
Republicans Are Freaking Out Before we get into Friday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling, let’s look at the most recent statewide...

Howie Klein
Dec 24, 20233 min read


Tomorrow’s The Big Anti-Gerrymander Day In Wisconsin— Will The Court Restore Democracy?
State Senator Chris Larson On The Case And What's At Stake According to state Senator Chris Larson, tomorrow, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court...

Howie Klein
Nov 20, 20237 min read


Good News And Bad News In 3 Crucial Purple State-- North Carolina, Georgia And Ohio
First the bad news: North Carolina Republicans went on a gerrymandering orgy, redrawing the districts in such a way that a 50/50 state...

Howie Klein
Oct 27, 20234 min read


Alabama Just Got A Lot Bluer— At Least For Congressional Democrats
Yesterday, a 3 judge panel made up of 3 Republicans, U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus (appointed by Reagan), District Judge Anna Manasco...

Howie Klein
Oct 6, 20233 min read


Imagine If The Dems Win Back The House Because The Supreme Court Said No To Racist Gerrymandering
Supreme Court Slapped Down Alabama's Last Appeal There’s going to be some bad news today so let’s start with something good— in Alabama,...

Howie Klein
Sep 27, 20234 min read


We'll Soon Find Out How Brittle-- Or Resilient-- Our Justice System Really Is
Trump-- The Kremlin Investment That Keeps Paying Dividends Recently, my sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She had surgery and her...

Howie Klein
Sep 7, 20235 min read


Did Georgia Racists Draw A Racist Congressional Map On Purpose? Trial Starts Today
Alabama Map Struck Down, New Map Being Drawn By Special Master Early this morning, a panel of 3 federal judges ruled that Alabama’s...

Howie Klein
Sep 5, 20233 min read


Good News From Florida For A Change: DeSantis' Racist Gerrymander Struck Down By Republican Judge
Yesterday was a pretty slow news day— except for one thing: the groups challenging DeSantis’ racist congressional gerrymander, won....

Howie Klein
Sep 3, 20234 min read


DeSantis' Overt Racism Can't Even Be Abided By Republican-Appointed Judges
On Thursday, state Judge J. Lee Marsh, a Rick Scott appointee, “signaled skepticism” that the congressional maps that DeSantis shoved up...

Howie Klein
Aug 26, 20232 min read


Did Florida Republicans Just Agree That Their House District Map Is Too Racist Even For Florida?
Some say that Ron DeSantis is America’s most racist governor since George Wallace. Others say he’s even more racist than George Wallace;...

Howie Klein
Aug 14, 20233 min read


The GOP War Against Democracy-- Wisconsin Republicans Want To Impeach Janet Protasiewisc Already
Robin Vos Will Do Anything To Protect Gerrymandered Districts Wisconsin is one of the most aggressively gerrymandered states in the U.S....

Howie Klein
Aug 13, 20235 min read


Incredibly, Gerrymandering Is Still Defeating Democracy In 21st Century America
Southern man, when will you pay them back? I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking On Thursday, the Cook Political Report did one of...

Howie Klein
Jul 21, 20238 min read


Is There Hope The US Supreme Court Will Throw Out The DeSantis Gerrymander
After the last census, Florida was awarded a 28th congressional district. It wouldn’t take a genius to imagine that a totally controlled...

Howie Klein
Jun 29, 20233 min read


Supreme Court Ruled Against The Louisiana GOP/KKK In Allowing For The Creation Of A New House Map
Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously moved to make Louisiana’s congressional maps a less gerrymandered racist mess. A lower court in...

Howie Klein
Jun 27, 20233 min read


Not Just Good News From The Supreme Court-- Good News From Alabama!
How often do we expect to hear any good news coming out of a Supreme Court, 6 of whose members were appointed by Trump (Gorsuch,...

Howie Klein
Jun 9, 20234 min read


Another Way For Republicans To Circumvent And Sabotage Democracy On Behalf Of Their Rich Patrons
Two of the Supreme Court’s worst assaults against democracy have been its decisions to allow unfettered corporate money into the system...

Howie Klein
May 16, 20233 min read
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