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Republicans Want to Redraw the Maps. Let’s Redraw the Playbook.
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Republicans Want to Redraw the Maps. Let’s Redraw the Playbook.

The strategy here is learned helplessness: Make it feel like democracy is already lost, so people stop fighting to protect it.

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Texas Republicans — at Donald Trump’s explicit request — are preparing to rewrite congressional maps to squeeze out up to five new GOP-leaning seats ahead of the 2026 midterms. Not because there was a census. Not because there’s been a population boom in white rural areas (there hasn’t). But because Trump told them to.

The official excuse is a recent DO…

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Kristoffer Ealy
Political science prof & political psych nerd. Writes about groupthink, power, & American nonsense. Sometimes funny on purpose. 📬 professorealy.substack.com 🐦 kmezdoesit.bsky.social
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