Thought that we would check in with Democracy Docket, considering that they work for voters rights all over the country.
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
🧵 (1/5)🗺️ REDISTRICTING UPDATE
This is where the redistricting battle stands after SCOTUS ruled this week in Callais v. Louisiana to gut the Voting Rights Act, and effectively invalidate a key tool used to fight racially discriminatory maps.
Here’s where state efforts currently stand👇
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
(2/5)🔴 WHERE CAN THE GOP GERRYMANDER?
LA and AL have already spurred into action.
Other GOP-led states like TN and GA are considering following suit.
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
(3/5)🔵 HOW ARE DEMOCRATS FIGHTING BACK?
Meanwhile, Democratic leaders in states like NY, CO and IL have said they are exploring avenues for a mid-decade redistricting effort aimed at countering potential Republican gains from the SCOTUS ruling.
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
(4/5)🪑HOW ARE SEATS NETTING OUT?
Republicans: +7 seats across FL, TX, MO, NC and OH due to gerrymandering.
This number could change drastically as both 🔴 and 🔵 states consider mid-decade redistricting efforts in the near future.
12:33 PM · May 1, 2026Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
(5/5)The battle intensifies by the day in a post-Callais world.
It’s now more critical than ever to stay up to date on how YOUR vote could be impacted in 2026 and 2028.
That’s where our LIVE redistricting tracker comes in — share this resource with your circle to get the latest developments👇
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2050267476311589235?s=20
A REALITY SHOW?
THEY ARE ALL UNQUALIFIED GRIFTERS
Steve Benen
@stevebenen.com
Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates.
In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one.
http://www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3mlla5mnles2i
Veronica McDonald
@veronicamcdonald.bsky.social
Remember, RFK Jr. “believes” Black people have “stronger” immune systems that White people. That’s code for directing all medical resources to White communities when the next pandemic hits, on the basis of Black people being stronger and able to “tough it out” while weaker White people need help.
9:57 AM · May 11, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/veronicamcdonald.bsky.social/post/3mlljwem4v22t
𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤
@saltybitchables.bsky.social
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As the Americans arrive home to ‘self-quarantine’ from the hantavirus cruise ship, people have the right to know just how easily transmissible this virus is.
One person caught it after saying “hello” to another person at a birthday party without physical contact.
#ProudBlue #HauntavirusCruiseShip
https://bsky.app/profile/saltybitchables.bsky.social/post/3mll2xjeev22t
Sailor Michael
@sailormichael.bsky.social
After all of the protests, deaths and Acts passed? 1968 is the year when Black people actually was *legally* considered part of this country. Think about that.
The Senator from Vermont with a huge movement and money backing him, hasn’t said anything about the death of the Voting Rights Act.
9:14 AM · May 11, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/sailormichael.bsky.social/post/3mllhiml2s22o
🦋PettyCrocker🦋
@pettycrocker2026.bsky.social
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Come on you guys… Blacks denied ole Barney the Presidency. Twice. You know Daym well he’s happy about the SCOTOS decision in Louisiana AND the ending of Black Representation thru out the South. Tit for tat it seems. Also, we did the right thing denying his ole bitch ass.
7:29 AM · May 11, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/pettycrocker2026.bsky.social/post/3mllbmdglms24
Scott MacFarlane
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries sends letter to Dem colleagues alerting about a Thursday briefing to “discuss the steps Democrats are taking to advance the largest voter protection effort in modern American history”..
Adding “Democrats will take control of the House”
https://bsky.app/profile/macfarlanenews.bsky.social/post/3mllpafbh322t
In win for voters, Montana court blocks Republican-backed attack on Election Day registration
By Yunior Rivas
May 11, 2026
In a major win for Montana voters, a court blocked a voter suppression law that would’ve cut off Election Day registration for federal elections at noon — preserving an essential voting option Montanans have used for decades ahead of the 2026 midterms.
In an order Friday, the First Judicial District Court of Montana enjoined Senate Bill 490 (SB 490), a Republican-backed law that would’ve barred voters who register after 12 p.m. on Election Day from voting in federal races.
The ruling temporarily blocks enforcement of the law and means Election Day registration will remain available to Montana voters for the full day as the lawsuit continues.
“Election Day registration shall remain available to all eligible voters for the full duration of Election Day, consistent with the practices in place prior to the enactment of SB 490,” the court wrote.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/montana-court-blocks-republican-backed-attack-on-election-day-registration/
The gerrymandering is only important, if you think people will be voting in the same way in November 2026 as they did in November 2024. I believe that with a stronger than normal voter turnout, the Democrats will pick up 30-40 seats in the House of Representatives and perhaps 15-20 seats in the US Senate. And then it will be time for impeachments and expulsions in the Executive and Judicial branches of the US Government.
Longtime Black Man Here
@groove_sdc
Leftists and progressives aided, abetted, supported and funded the elimination of Black political participation in the South and Black voting rights.
Every step of the way.
Republicans led the charge but they were right there behind them.
Never forget that.
8:22 AM · May 11, 2026
https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2053828140665843971?s=20
Politics & Poll Tracker
@PollTracker2024
The executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus criticizes Bernie Sanders’ silence after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act.
https://x.com/PollTracker2024/status/2053532294762110981?s=20
Ice
@IceFirefly
Bernie Sanders is not Black or Southern. Bernie Sanders does not care about Black People, Bernie Sanders blames Black People for him being a loser, in conclusion Bernie Sanders does not like Black People. What are people expecting from him? He shows you how he feels *shrugs*.
7:33 PM · May 10, 2026
https://x.com/IceFirefly/status/2053634448755716451?s=20
Walter M. Kimbrough
@HipHopPrez
“Landry replied, “Well, the failed narrative is that actually that people in Louisiana are racist. That we — that basically we won’t elect Black people.’”
The last Black person elected to state office in Louisiana
@LAGovJeffLandry
was PBS Pinchback… in 1872.
https://x.com/HipHopPrez/status/2053636200427090017?s=20
BMB Empower Network
@Bmbempower
#Republicans are now going after the 14th Amendment. The #14thAmendment was passed after the #CivilWar to grant slaves #citizenship and guarantee all citizens equal protection and due process of law. Thank you
@couriernewsroom
for getting this on video!
https://x.com/Bmbempower/status/2053584731019591873?s=20
Jesse Ferguson
@JesseFFerguson
They cancelled elections.
They are redrawing districts.
They are overturning voters (b/c they voted for black Members of Congress)
They are doing this to give Donald Trump unlimited power.
And they’re proud of it.
https://x.com/JesseFFerguson/status/2053636507462730146?s=20
Leslie Proll
@LeslieProll
One-third of Louisianans are Black. Yet, since Reconstruction, LA has never elected a Black person statewide & has had only 4 Black Congressmen.
But LA Governor Jeff Landry just told
@60Minutes
: “I want LA to be finally unshackled from decades of litigation.” Yes, he said that.
https://x.com/LeslieProll/status/2053628395452322005?s=20
Forward Blue
@forwardblue.bsky.social
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This South LA student slept in a parking lot. No roof over his head. Now he has 65 college acceptances, and he’s heading to Columbia to study industrial engineering!
THIS is what happens when talent gets a fair shot. 🙌🏽
https://bsky.app/profile/forwardblue.bsky.social/post/3mlld6gnqja2j
The United States versus Elon R. Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
the Gen X & Jones Generation white children of Greatest & Silent Generation segregationists-turned-Evangelicals are in charge of the South right now, and the region is now super fucked because of it
that faction of Christianity despised democracy because it wasn’t racist enough
6:45 AM · May 11, 2026
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2053803772158361980?s=20
John Fugelsang
@JohnFugelsang
I’d like to thank all the Gerrymandering Confederates who’ve stopped pretending they’re not racist.
The next step is to stop pretending you’re Christian.
Because y’all hate the Gospels as deeply as you hate the VRA.
https://x.com/JohnFugelsang/status/2053542423436112259?s=20
Mike Young
@micyoung75
Leona Tate’s testimony is the line that deserves to travel.
She desegregated a New Orleans school at six years old. Walked through a mob to do it. Now 71, she stood in a Louisiana hearing room this week to testify against maps designed to eliminate Black congressional representation in her state.
“I walked through that mob once,” she said. “I feel like I’m still walking through it.”
The maps she’s testifying against are the direct product of a ruling that relied on turnout data experts called deliberately misleading, issued by justices who built the legal architecture of this moment over four decades. The states were waiting for clearance. They moved within hours.
Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, South Carolina – all at once. Protesters removed from chambers. A senator standing on her desk. The four Black congressmen Louisiana has produced since the 1870s, all in the same room.
“We shall overcome” sung inside a statehouse, in 2026.
https://x.com/i/status/2053649038155583845
Myron J Clifton
@AuthorMJClifton
This guy’s entire timeline is anti-Israel bullshit, and Gaza Gaza Gaza, + please support the Nazi racist pos in Maine
Nothing about voting rights for Black folk in THIS country.
Performative leftist bullshit like Hogg, Bernard, Podcast fools, Hasan Piker, and the rest ..
https://x.com/AuthorMJClifton/status/2053618298076741954?s=20
Lisa Bee
@leebee4life
Black Americans are being disenfranchised and losing representation in this country. Has Bernie Sanders said one word about it or vowed to help? Folks have insisted that he was some kind of “civil rights hero.” So he should care about voting rights for Black people, right? 🤨
9:44 AM · May 9, 2026
https://x.com/leebee4life/status/2053124020145397952?s=20
Tim
@trouble_man90
Bernie Sanders doesn’t give two fucks about Black voting rights. His silence is loud, but I knew he wasn’t shit a decade ago.
https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/2053283631326437767?s=20
Chris Original Black Navy Vet
@Chris4Perkins2
It’s like they’re giddy that Republicans are trying to limit the power of our votes. So they’re allowing their true selves be shown because they figure we won’t matter anymore. They should have studied black history before making this miscalculation.
6:55 PM · May 10, 2026
https://x.com/Chris4Perkins2/status/2053625112042127682?s=20
phoenixrisng823🪷🇺🇦🇮🇱🏳️🌈👊🏾
@phoenixrisng821
You hear the silence of Bernie Sanders and leftists? Black voters could never afford to splinter their votes & move like White leftists in protest voting. Any policy gains we have seen is due to us voting together in mass. “You move, we move. Just like that.”
2:14 PM · May 10, 2026
https://x.com/phoenixrisng821/status/2053554225255223690?s=20
60 Minutes
@60Minutes
The 119th Congress has more Black members than at any point in American history.
Louisiana Rep. Cleo Fields says, “It’s progress. But it’s not progress for Louisiana. There are people who, in this state and others, just will not vote for a Black person for anything.” https://cbsn.ws/4tsZBqz
https://x.com/60Minutes/status/2053618848662782125?s=20
Jamil Smith جميل كريم
@JamilSmith
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is all but dead. We’re going to need a new one. My latest column for
@GuardianUS
, in which I argue that the next VRA must include a total ban on federal gerrymandering.
https://x.com/JamilSmith/status/2053495321708331350?s=20
Huey K. Bridgeforth
@hkb73
I don’t think we talk enough about how Black people paid taxes the same as whites during the Jim Crow era, but segregated all white Southern legislatures still underfunded and outright cheated black public schools, colleges, and universities out of funds.
https://x.com/hkb73/status/2053521178577268961?s=20
🪷 A Harris Democrat✊🏾
@sephius1999
Black UNemployment rate always increases under Republicans, and yet you still have these tap dancing kneegrows, shuckin’ and jivin’ for Republicans.
https://x.com/sephius1999/status/2053472939312353768?s=20
Semitic Jew
@semitic_jew
People keep trying to rewrite history, but the documents are public.
The Confederacy officially consisted of 11 states that seceded from the Union:
• South Carolina
• Mississippi
• Florida
• Alabama
• Georgia
• Louisiana
• Texas
• Virginia
• Arkansas
• North Carolina
• Tennessee
The Confederacy also CLAIMED Kentucky and Missouri.
West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the Civil War because many people in the western counties opposed Virginia’s decision to secede from the Union in 1861.
And let’s be very clear: many of these states plainly stated WHY they were leaving the Union.
Mississippi said:
“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery…”
Texas defended “the servitude of the African race.”
Georgia, South Carolina, and others complained about abolitionists, Black freedom, and threats to slavery.
This wasn’t hidden. It wasn’t subtle. It was written down in their own declarations. The Civil War never ended.
And many of these same states later:
• created Black Codes
• enforced Jim Crow
• fought school integration
• resisted the Voting Rights Act
• used terror, media, politics, and violence to suppress Black political power
History leaves patterns.
That’s why studying history matters — because some of the same states still struggle with the same racial tensions and political battles today.
Read the documents for yourself. Don’t let people sanitize history to make themselves comfortable.
http://CarthanEnterprises.com
https://x.com/semitic_jew/status/2053497005947711538?s=20
NO LIE TOLD
Monte DeWayne
@SilverBeardBoss
Once he legitimized their racism, he became their god.
8:56 PM · May 9, 2026
https://x.com/SilverBeardBoss/status/2053293186282328488?s=20
Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾
@KwikWarren
This is inarguably how trump rose to power and why they worship him…and will NEVER abandon him.
https://x.com/KwikWarren/status/2053310226720305372?s=20
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Jack Smith says the Justice Department has been “corrupted” by Trump loyalists demolishing its credibility and seeking to undermine the rule of law.
“We have a Department of Justice today that targets people for criminal prosecution simply because the president doesn’t like them.”
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2052448469327937568?s=20
Mike Young
@micyoung75
Every outlet is running the “corrupted” quote. The detail they’re skipping is the one that makes this structurally irreversible.
The decision of whether to prosecute Jack Smith for conducting a legitimate federal investigation now belongs to Todd Blanche. The acting attorney general who personally served as Trump’s lead defense lawyer in the cases Smith brought. The man who sat across the courtroom from Smith arguing Trump was innocent is now in charge of deciding whether Smith goes to prison for building those cases.
There is no recusal discussion. No institutional firewall. Smith indicted Trump. Trump’s lawyer is now the charging authority over Smith.
Smith also named something that deserves more than a passing mention. After an unarmed woman was shot and killed by an immigration agent during a street protest in Minnesota, Bondi and Patel did not order an investigation into the agent. They ordered federal agents to find links between the victim and left-wing domestic terrorist groups. A dead woman. They built a file on her.
“I’ve never been in a Department of Justice that would be willing to be complicit in something like that,” Smith said.
Federal judges have accused DOJ officials of dishonesty so many times since January 2025 that Smith said it had become “difficult to track.” Judges. In court filings. On the record.
The DOJ spokeswoman’s full response to all of this: “I would expect nothing less from Jack Smith.”
https://x.com/micyoung75/status/2053520693019513064?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
Cornyn: “I don’t understand how the SAVE Act disenfranchises voters.”
Durbin: “Driver’s licenses don’t qualify. 50% of Americans don’t have passports.”
Cornyn: “Why not just amend it?”
Durbin: “When’s the last time the Senate actually amended a bill?”
Silence.
The SAVE Act requires passport-level documentation to register to vote.
50% of Americans don’t have a passport.
The people least likely to have one: the elderly, the poor, rural Americans, young first-time voters.
The people most likely to have one: wealthy Americans..
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2053814962921902165?s=20
Fella who bonks and knows thïngs 🇺🇸
@Crushcommies420
If the “Real-IDs” that everyone was forced to get aren’t good enough then this is a no go. Don’t allow maga to gaslight you on this. Yes most Americans support voter ID however they don’t support requiring passports to vote. You crammed real-ID through 50 state DMVs so live with it
8:23 AM · May 11, 2026
https://x.com/Crushcommies420/status/2053828400561737997?s=20
Fella who bonks and knows thïngs 🇺🇸
@Crushcommies420
If your state isn’t listed here then your real-ID isn’t good enough. Don’t be gaslit.
https://x.com/Crushcommies420/status/2053844901993804277?s=20
Mike Young
@micyoung75
The Democracy Docket piece puts a seat count on what has been an abstract structural argument.
Before the redraws: a competitive baseline. After: Republicans 10 to 12 House seats ahead of where they would have been. That’s not a trend or a polling advantage. That’s a pre-built structural cushion locked in before the midterms begin.
The sequence is documented. Trump directed GOP-led states to gerrymander as aggressively as possible last summer as public opinion began turning against his party. Texas, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Ohio answered that call. The Callais ruling then opened the door for Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Those three states alone, combined with the earlier redraws, produce a potential 16 to 18-seat swing in the GOP’s direction.
Democrats gained 5 seats in California and 1 in Utah. Virginia’s state supreme court blocked 4 more Friday.
The math: 16-18 GOP gains against 6 Democratic gains, with 4 more blocked. Net Republican advantage: 10-12 seats. Built not from votes but from maps drawn on White House instruction, then ratified by two court rulings in the same week.
The midterms haven’t happened. The outcome is already being constructed.
https://x.com/micyoung75/status/2053641490149392711?s=20
Huey K. Bridgeforth
@hkb73
The woman laughing as people of color fought to not have their representation taken away in Tennessee is state Rep. Debra Moody — described as a “Christian” mother of four. Except…she wants the South to rise again.
https://x.com/hkb73/status/2053578462695154108?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
Louisiana Gov. Landry on the ballots from the election he cancelled:
“Those ballots are discarded… if anyone has a grievance, take it to the Supreme Court.”
The Supreme Court he believes they own.
He declared a fake emergency to stop a live election.
To strip Black voters of representation.
To protect Trump.
And his answer to anyone who objects is: go to court.
The court we packed.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2053845159402504202?s=20
Carl T. Bergstrom
@carlbergstrom.com
The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t.
It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.
https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3mljgxjqbls2i
David Farrier
@davidfarrier.com
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new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: http://www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...
https://bsky.app/profile/davidfarrier.com/post/3mlk33vqs3c2p
The Atlantic
@TheAtlantic
The U.S. is effectively checkmated in Iran—and this defeat will carry lasting consequences unlike any America has endured before, Robert Kagan argues.
https://x.com/TheAtlantic/status/2053471372257443936?s=20
Mike Drucker
@MikeDrucker
You’re telling me that firing all the military experts who said this was a bad idea and replacing them with unexperienced sycophants who said it’s a good idea did not, in fact, make this a good idea? Wow.
https://x.com/MikeDrucker/status/2053827668659835109?s=20
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