49 days. That's how long it took to weaponize partisan gerrymandering. Once the Supreme Court decided in June that it would not fix previously partisan gerrymandered maps, conservatives took this as a license to freely gerrymander future maps to their advantage.

Last week, Republican state legislators from across the country gathered at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) conference. ALEC -- a conservative-aligned group notorious for promoting "stand your ground" laws, climate-denying resolutions, and union-busting toolkits -- plans to leverage the 2021 redistricting process to maintain Republican power. And they devoted time in their annual conference to training legislators how to manipulate redistricting in their favor.

Since the Supreme Court won't deter partisan gerrymandering, we must take a stand. Add your name to tell state legislators: Stop using the Supreme Court's decision as an excuse to ignore the public's demands for fairness.

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ALEC is arming incumbent politicians with new tactics to rig the maps -- ones that will hurt immigrant and historically-disadvantaged communities. These tactics not only exploit the SCOTUS decision, but they also show the lengths to which conservatives are committed to a manipulation strategy that is "advantageous to Republicans and non-Hispanic Whites" as famous gerrymandering mastermind Thomas Hofeller described it.

Gerrymandering is an affront to civil rights, plain and simple. Whether the intention is to disenfranchise voters or stack the deck for incumbents, the result is still the same -- manipulated maps that dismantle democracy.

Add your name to tell politicians that gerrymandering will not be tolerated. We need a fair redistricting process -- we will not accept maps that disenfranchise communities of color under the guise of partisan gerrymandering.

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The cycle of partisan gerrymandering can stop if we hold politicians accountable -- it's up to us to prevent map manipulation.

-- John Bisognano


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