Republican legislators around the country have identified the biggest obstacles to their unprecedented mid-decade redistricting: the courts and the voters. So they’re responding by launching an all-out war on both.

Thursday, December 4

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The latest in Trump’s troop deployment 

  • A D.C. Circuit three-judge panel, which included two Trump appointees, temporarily paused a lower court order that blocked Trump's National Guard deployment to Washington, D.C. until Dec. 11.

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Trump Jr. targets Missouri activist in latest attack on gerrymander opponents

  • In the GOP’s latest bid to derail Missourians' citizen-led redistricting referendum, Donald Trump Jr. called the plan’s organizer a “leftist nut job” and accused him of trying to steal a Republican congressional seat.

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To protect gerrymanders, GOP lawmakers target judges – and voters

  • Republican legislators around the country have identified the biggest obstacles to their unprecedented mid-decade redistricting: the courts and the voters. So they’re responding by launching an all-out war on both.

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A loss for Michigan voters

  • A Michigan court sided with the RNC, ruling absentee ballots missing the perforated stub or not matching the return envelope number cannot be counted. The court did, however, ask parties to suggest ways for voters to "cure" their ballots.

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The one threat we must confront to save America from itself

  • Democracy in America is facing a defining test — and Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude breaks down the one threat we must confront if we want the country to endure. He explains how political polarization, racial injustice, and concentrated power have created a crisis point in the history of America — and what ordinary people can do to reclaim democratic institutions and legal equality before it’s too late.

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Coming up tomorrow

  • The district court will hear arguments on California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D) renewed motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to block the Trump administration's second deployment of 300 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles in August.

  • Learn more about the case >>>
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