Is it 1964 or 2026? We’re going back.
Over the last decade, The United States Extreme Court has greatly eradicated the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement, The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Act). The Act served as “a comprehensive tool meant to undo the political hold of Jim Crow policies in the South and related discriminatory structures nationwide” and enabled the election of our first (and only, thus far) Black president, Barack Obama.
But after the Extreme Court’s recent ruling that” increased restrictions on the use of race when drawing congressional, state legislative and other districts,” several states, mainly former Confederate States, have gone full throttle in redrawing maps that will give the white GOPers a clear advantage in who they send to Congress and what party and policies govern their states.
- Tennessee became the first state to pass new US Congressional maps since the Extreme Court blew up the Voting Rights Act.
- Virginia’s State Supreme Court just overthrew the will of the people and narrowly struck down a redistricting referendum Friday that voters narrowly approved in a special election; Virginia Democrats have filed a motion asking the state Supreme Court “to delay issuing its mandate.”
- For MAGAt Morons that do not know how things work: In a 4-3 ruling, the court said the legislature followed the wrong process for putting the question, an amendment to the state constitution, on the ballot.
- Louisiana quickly suspended primaries scheduled for May 16 so lawmakers could create new districts. Voting rights activists there packed the statehouse to oppose proposals for new maps that could eliminate at least one of the two current majority-Black districts.
- Republicans in Alabama enacted a law Friday that would ignore the results of its May 19 congressional primaries and instead hold a new election — if a federal court agrees to lift an order for the state to have a second congressional district where a majority or near-majority of residents are Black. Republicans currently hold four of the state’s six seats in the House and want to instead use a map that could allow them to win an additional seat.
- South Carolina’s GOP-dominated legislature met Friday to discuss a proposal to create a new map that gives the party a shot at winning all seven of the state’s House seats. But some worried that breaking up the one Democratic-controlled district could make some other districts vulnerable to Democratic election wins.
- Missouri: Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a revised House map into law last September that could help Republicans win an additional seat.
- North Carolina: The Republican-led General Assembly gave final approval in October to revised districts that could help Republicans win an additional seat.
- Not the South but might as well be, OHIO!!!, A bipartisan panel composed primarily of Republicans voted in October to approve revised House districts that improve Republicans’ chances of winning two additional seats.
- Meatball DeSatan signed a new congressional district maps into law that greatly affects South Florida, where districts stretch farther and cross more city and county lines. District 20, which has long centered Black communities in Palm Beach and Broward counties, is now drawn entirely within Broward County. The new law is being challenged in the courts.
In other words, they have silenced the Black vote, have gerrymandered minority-majority districts into a White Supremacist, GOP majority, and implemented their own, 2026 version of Jim Crow 2.0.
History Repeating Itself:
