Republican Redistricting Effort In South Carolina Is DEFEATED - Major Blow To MAGA Agenda
Another loss for the Trump regime
Democratic Representative Jim Clyburn’s, lone Democratic Congressional seat in the state of South Carolina, is safe for today. The MAGA plan to eliminate his district has been defeated.
We’ve been spending an uncomfortable amount of time talking about redistricting on this newsletter over the last couple months.
Republicans are showing just how afraid they are of losing their majority, by trying to erase Democratic seats off the map.
After watching Texas erase 5 Democratic districts out of their state, and the Supreme Court gut the Voting Right Act, I assumed the dominoes would continue to fall, but today the MAGA plan hit a roadblock in South Carolina.
South Carolina state senators voted Tuesday against a plan to advance a new congressional map, putting a pin in the state’s GOP-led redistricting push amid the national back-and-forth ahead of the midterms.
“I can no longer support the passage of this bill for one simple reason: South Carolina citizens are going to the polls today,” Republican state Sen. Richard Cash said in a release. “Neither my conscience nor common sense will allow me to stop an election that has already begun.”
Tuesday’s move effectively blocks the plan from further action before the midterms. Reported by The Hill
While Republicans in South Carolina will never admit it, they know these redistricting efforts are only going to backfire in their face. It will increase turnout against them & they will still lose their majority.
As of right now, Republican efforts to redistrict have been put on hold in South Carolina, Louisiana, & Alabama. If anything changes on that front, I’ll be sure to bring you an update.
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Additional stories I wanted to share:
Alabama Federal Court Judge has blocked a Republican map to eliminate one of two majority-Black districts in the state
A panel of federal judges on Monday blocked Alabama from using congressional district maps that would dilute the votes of Black people in the 2026 midterm elections.
The ruling in U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Alabama, which found that the maps “intentionally discriminated based on race,” sets the stage for the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether the maps, which were first proposed in 2023, can be used by Alabama this year.
Protestors in Greenland were outside the U.S. embassy chanting “Go Home USA.” - Hundreds of Greenlanders gathered outside a new American consulate in the capital Nuuk on Friday to protest against Donald Trump’s ambition for greater influence over the island. The protest capped a week in which the US president’s special envoy to Greenland, Jeff Landry, made his first trip to the territory, a semi-autonomous part of Denmark. “Our government already told Donald Trump and his administration that Greenland is not for sale,” said Aqqalukkuluk Fontain, who organised the protest. Reported by the BBC
Hundreds of ICE detainees in New Jersey start hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions inside the facility - “The conditions are brutal,” said Selenia Destefani, a managing attorney and CEO of Nova Law Group, which represents people in the facility. “People just sleep on the floor – overcrowded rooms, cold showers, no food, extremely cold in the cells with no blankets. Not sound conditions to live in.” Detainees with medical conditions like cancer and diabetes can’t access medical care, said Alex Minogue, another attorney at Nova Law Group. Reported by CNN
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon killed at least 31 people on Tuesday, including 4 children and 3 women, while wounding 40 others - Fourteen people were killed in Burj al-Shamali near the southern city of Tyre, home to a Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanese authorities said. Israel carried out more than 180 strikes across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley on Tuesday, local media accounts report, despite the U.S.-brokered “ceasefire.” - Reported by Drop Site News
Kamala Harris is calling for an “expanded playbook” to strengthen democracy — including discussing Electoral College reform, Supreme Court expansion, rules for SCOTUS including consequences for lying to the Senate, multi-member districts, and D.C./Puerto Rico statehood:
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I'm glad to hear Kamala Harris taking those stands, because as of right now, she's the front runner in 2028. And the Democratic Party is notorious for taking its cues from their proposed leaders. Democrats cannot lie in a chalk outline of themselves & stamp "dead" on their foreheads. Fighting back looks like that, and adding universal healthcare, taxing billionaires, and prosecuting Trump regime officials. No more civility politics.
Just what we need, another 85 year old democrat. If it wasn’t for Clyburn, Genocide Joe would have lost to Bernie.