The plan was intentionally designed to disenfranchise voters, silencing thousands of voices to ensure the balance of power across the entire country shifts even further toward the white supremacist extremists and special interests calling the shots in DC right now. And this tactic is nothing new to the GOP.
Ballots land in mailboxes next week, friend!
In less than a month, we’ll vote on Proposition 50 — Governor Gavin Newsom’s measure to re-draw California’s Congressional district boundaries.
Make no mistake — redistricting in Texas had nothing to do with population growth. It was a bad-faith move to concentrate power in the hands of the MAGA movement and their billionaire puppet masters.
The plan was intentionally designed to disenfranchise voters, silencing thousands of voices to ensure the balance of power across the entire country shifts even further toward the white supremacist extremists and special interests calling the shots in DC right now. And this tactic is nothing new to the GOP.
In 2016, Republican lawmakers in Florida, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania privately bragged about new laws requiring voter ID that would suppress turnout and help them win.
Not only do these manipulative policies keep entire communities underserved and unheard, but they also erode trust in our elections and our political system.
And with the midterms around the corner, Texas’ redistricting could mean more than four years of policies that don’t work for us if we don’t fight back right here in our own state.
That’s why California has to resist the MAGA moves to rig the entire federal government and our electoral system. One person, one vote only works if everyone is playing by the same rules.
Born and raised in San Diego, Monica Montgomery Steppe is an HBCU graduate and an attorney by trade. Monica believes in her heart that the neighborhoods and community members are vibrant and worthy of care and investment. She is running for re-election to the Board of Supervisors, District Four.
