The latest chapter in the Republican Party’s war on democracy is playing out in Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott, backed by President Donald Trump, is leading a cynical campaign to redraw congressional districts for one reason only: to cling to power, regardless of what voters want.

Gerrymandering — the process of manipulating electoral maps to give one party an advantage that is so insurmountable as to ensure that the winner of that party’s primary will win the general election — is cheating. It allows politicians to lock in power by picking their voters, rather than voters picking them. It makes general elections — the unrestricted elections in which the greatest number of voters are eligible to participate — all but irrelevant ceremonial affairs. Put simply, gerrymandering allows politici

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