What’s happening in Texas is ridiculous.
At the behest of the president, and in a blatant effort to simply cheat, Texas Republicans are attempting to redraw voting maps mid-cycle to help the GOP retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
There is no disputing this is true. The people doing it have admitted it is true. In fact, when asked by a CNN anchor point blank why they’re doing it, a Texas Republican responded, “Because we can.”
You know that’s not right.
I don’t want to hear your butwhatabout excuses. I don’t want to hear some convoluted explanation that pretends to make it ok.
It’s cheating. Plain and simple.
And it is wrong.
We know all about such wrongs in Alabama, where we’ve long championed gerrymandering to squeeze certain groups and certain voters out of the p