We get it -- sometimes it feels like there's nothing we can do in these situations. But we have to fight these power grabs whenever and wherever we can so that we don't obey in advance and let the vote suppressors get away with these dirty tricks to protect their power and silence the will of the people.

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The fight against gerrymandering never ends, John.

Reports from Texas indicate that the opponents of voting rights who run one of Texas’s biggest counties have recruited the top conservative map-drawer, as well as a leading Washington, D.C.-based anti-voting group, to ram through a new gerrymander that aims to expand the U.S. House majority.

For background: Voters in Tarrant County — Texas’s third-largest county, with a population of around 2.2 million, and home to Fort Worth — elect four commissioners who, along with the County Judge Tim O’Hare, make up the county’s five-member governing body, known as commissioners court. (In Texas, a county judge is not a judicial officer, but a regular elected official.) O'Hare, for context, is an opponent of voting rights who tried to remove polling sites from college campuses ahead of the 2024 election.

Now that panel -- finalized in a 3-2 party-line vote -- has moved to redraw Tarrant County's maps and put local minority communities' right to fair representation at risk. The new map packs many of the county’s Black and brown voters into one heavily partisan district, switching the balance of the other district back in their direction. The map was shared publicly only in the past week and had not been discussed at public hearings.

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This is all part of a sweeping national strategy that uses map-drawing to boost one party’s power at the expense of non-white voters and is now playing out at the local level. 

How do we know? The D.C.-based attorney who oversaw much of these redistricting fights for a conservative law firm just took over as the top anti-voting lawyer at the MAGA version of the Justice Department.

The involvement from the start of national-level anti-voting operatives highlights the striking sophistication and coordination of this multi-pronged campaign to suppress democracy.

At a public hearing about the new map, Commissioner Matt Krause, a Republican, said, “My entire intention is to allow Tarrant County to go from three Republicans, two Democrats on the commissioners court to four Republicans, one Democrat.” Within hours of the map vote, an anti-voting state lawmaker announced that he plans to run in the new district that’s been gerrymandered to favor his party.

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