Six People Are Rewriting the Constitution to Ensure Republicans Never Lose Power Regardless of Votes

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https://open.substack.com/pub/cmarmitage/p/six-people-are-rewriting-the-constitution?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

There’s a name for what’s happening: electoral autocracy. Elections happen. Multiple parties compete. But the system is rigged to favor one faction through gerrymandered maps, voter suppression, captured courts, and media control. When the wrong side wins anyway, those captured courts block them from governing. Hungary operates this way. So do we.

Start with gerrymandered maps. The Brennan Center’s September 2024 analysis found Republicans hold approximately 16 extra House seats due to favorable district lines.¹ Republicans drew 191 congressional districts while Democrats drew 75.¹ Only 69 of 435 House seats are rated competitive.² The Senate is worse. California’s 39 million residents have the same representation as Wyoming’s 579,000, a ratio of 68 to 1.³ The 50 Republican senators who confirmed Trump’s Supreme Court justices represented 43.5 percent of the American population. Their 50 Democratic colleagues represented 56.5 percent.⁴ The last time Republican senators represented a majority of voters was 1996.⁵

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1. Gerrymandering and voter suppression will not stop the blue tsunami in November

But it is important that Dems only nominate senatorial candidates who are willing to kill the filibuster and expand the court, so that the MAGA majority can be neutralized in 2029.

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2. Another important article from the Existentialist Republic and Chris Armitage.

Get thee to the Greatest page. (I believe I'm stealing that phrase from malaise.)

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4. Thanks! I think it may be easier to do if I had posted it in

General Discussion.

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3. Six Unelected people

Whose 'confirmations' lack integrity as do their 'decisions'.