#Via Chris Hayes / chrislhayes12:22 PM · May 6, 2026
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
12:29 PM · May 6, 2026"Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime."
Senstor Warnock: [video clip from Weds]
"The same tools used during Jim Crow, packing and cracking Black voting districts, are back, and now the Court said that’s fine… This is an effort by politicians to choose who their voters are instead of having voters choose their politicians."
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Senstor Warnock: [video clip from Weds]
"The same tools used during Jim Crow, packing and cracking Black voting districts, are back, and now the Court said that’s fine… This is an effort by politicians to choose who their voters are instead of having voters choose their politicians."
#Via Phil Lewis
@phil_lewis_
11:41 AM · May 6, 2026"Federal agents are conducting a raid at the office of L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat who serves as Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore."
Lucas, one of Virginia's most powerful lawmakers, was at the forefront of the state's redistricting fight."
Virginia lawmaker Louise Lucas’ office raided in FBI probe
The FBI executed search warrants Wednesday at the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas as part of a corruption investigation.
FOX 5 DC (www.fox5dc.com)
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#Via Chris Hayes / chrislhayes
12:22 PM · May 6, 2026"We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge:"
"Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee’s Majority-Black House District
The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the map, which slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city that makes up most of the state’s lone Democratic district."
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#Via Phil Lewis
@phil_lewis_
11:41 AM · May 6, 2026"Federal agents are conducting a raid at the office of L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat who serves as Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore."
Lucas, one of Virginia's most powerful lawmakers, was at the forefront of the state's redistricting fight."
Virginia lawmaker Louise Lucas’ office raided in FBI probe
The FBI executed search warrants Wednesday at the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas as part of a corruption investigation.
FOX 5 DC (www.fox5dc.com)
#Via Rachel Bitecofer / rachelbitecofer
"Trump has turned the FBI against Louise Lucas.
I have 0 doubt that this is political revenge for winning the VA gerrymander fight and rubbing it in their faces."
New FBI raid on Dem was brought on by fired Trump official to help with midterms: MS NOW
Federal agents have raided the office of a Virginia Democratic legislator who was instrumental to her party possibly picking up four additional congressional seats.The FBI served multiple search warrants at the office of state Sen. L. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth as part of what sources described as a...
Raw Story (www.rawstory.com)
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#Via Rachel Bitecofer / rachelbitecofer
"Trump has turned the FBI against Louise Lucas.
I have 0 doubt that this is political revenge for winning the VA gerrymander fight and rubbing it in their faces."
New FBI raid on Dem was brought on by fired Trump official to help with midterms: MS NOW
Federal agents have raided the office of a Virginia Democratic legislator who was instrumental to her party possibly picking up four additional congressional seats.The FBI served multiple search warrants at the office of state Sen. L. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth as part of what sources described as a...
Raw Story (www.rawstory.com)
#Via Acyn / acyn
4:07 PM · May 6, 2026"Scott MacFarlane on the FBI raid of Sen. Lucas’s home and office:
'There are going to be questions raised about how Fox News was there as the raid was undertaken. That type of thing is rare.' "
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Senstor Warnock: [video clip from Weds]
"The same tools used during Jim Crow, packing and cracking Black voting districts, are back, and now the Court said that’s fine… This is an effort by politicians to choose who their voters are instead of having voters choose their politicians."
#Via Ari Berman / ariberman
2:22 PM · May 7, 2026"Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow."
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#Via Ari Berman / ariberman
2:22 PM · May 7, 2026"Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow."
#Via W.E.D.em Boyz / leftistwonk
2:29 PM · May 7, 2026"Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such."
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#Via W.E.D.em Boyz / leftistwonk
2:29 PM · May 7, 2026"Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such."
#Via Erik Hane / erikhane
2:38 PM · May 7, 2026"there's simply no adequate political response to this that isn't based on fully destroying the people and party responsible for it.
that's not ultraleft or fringe to say anymore. we can have a livable country or we can have a country with the Republican Party in it. everyone knows this now, from the most edgy leftist poster to a mainstream liberal. the opposition party can either offer that clearly and loudly, or they can lose."
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#Via Erik Hane / erikhane
2:38 PM · May 7, 2026"there's simply no adequate political response to this that isn't based on fully destroying the people and party responsible for it.
that's not ultraleft or fringe to say anymore. we can have a livable country or we can have a country with the Republican Party in it. everyone knows this now, from the most edgy leftist poster to a mainstream liberal. the opposition party can either offer that clearly and loudly, or they can lose."
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#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
12:29 PM · May 6, 2026"Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime."
if enough US citizens wrote/emailed/phoned/screamed
outside their office to our congressional reps to IMPEACH
or face voter outrage ending their career, and kept it up, we could regain our #democracyIf you know of actions bringing people together as a force to be reckoned with, while the world is up in arms against
Trump for so many reasons,
when the economy is getting ever worse ...
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#Via Democracy Docket
@democracydocket
10:28 AM · May 8, 2026"In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect.
The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.
The decision marks a significant and terrifying moment in our democracy as the court allowed an election to be cancelled after its completion."
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#Via Democracy Docket
@democracydocket
10:28 AM · May 8, 2026"In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect.
The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.
The decision marks a significant and terrifying moment in our democracy as the court allowed an election to be cancelled after its completion."
#Via Josh Gerstein
@Joshgerstein
10:15 AM · May 8, 2026"Virginia Supreme Court, 4-3, overturns redistricting referendum that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. Doc:"
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#Via Josh Gerstein
@Joshgerstein
10:15 AM · May 8, 2026"Virginia Supreme Court, 4-3, overturns redistricting referendum that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. Doc:"
[pdf link]
https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdfThis is how democracy dies.
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#Via Josh Gerstein
@Joshgerstein
10:15 AM · May 8, 2026"Virginia Supreme Court, 4-3, overturns redistricting referendum that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. Doc:"
[pdf link]
https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdf@_L1vY_ @Joshgerstein so only republicans can do it?
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@_L1vY_ @Joshgerstein so only republicans can do it?
@terribletowelie @_L1vY_ @Joshgerstein Dems gotta stop playing defense. They need to attack! attack! attack the MFers!!!
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@terribletowelie @_L1vY_ @Joshgerstein Dems gotta stop playing defense. They need to attack! attack! attack the MFers!!!
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@terribletowelie @_L1vY_ @Joshgerstein
YAAAAAAAS!!!
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#Via Josh Gerstein
@Joshgerstein
10:15 AM · May 8, 2026"Virginia Supreme Court, 4-3, overturns redistricting referendum that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. Doc:"
[pdf link]
https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdf#Via ósanwë 🦭 /isilanor
8:52 PM · May 7, 2026"the maximalist calculus right after a blue wave midterm simply doesn't work out for republicans but they're doing it anyway.
they're playing w/fire doing this right before democrats take control of a bunch of swing states, and the impact on house control will be relatively low; but republicans have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation, so of course it must happen immediately."
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#Via ósanwë 🦭 /isilanor
8:52 PM · May 7, 2026"the maximalist calculus right after a blue wave midterm simply doesn't work out for republicans but they're doing it anyway.
they're playing w/fire doing this right before democrats take control of a bunch of swing states, and the impact on house control will be relatively low; but republicans have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation, so of course it must happen immediately."
#Via ósanwë 🦭 /isilanor
8:52 PM · May 7, 2026"they refuse to support nationwide fair districting, not because it would confer any partisan advantage at this point, but because they have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation. it's not a means to an end, it is the end in and of itself."
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#Via ósanwë 🦭 /isilanor
8:52 PM · May 7, 2026"they refuse to support nationwide fair districting, not because it would confer any partisan advantage at this point, but because they have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation. it's not a means to an end, it is the end in and of itself."
#Via Fuss / semperfitrex
10:48 AM · May 8, 2026"Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA."
