According to a recent report released by Black Voters Matter and the Stacey Abrams founded Fair Fight Action the Republican party’s current gerrymandering power grab, combined with a ruling striking down Section 2 could help secure an additional 27 U.S. House seats for Republicans – at least 19 directly tied to the loss of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. It’s enough to cement one-party control of the U.S. House for at least a generation.

North Carolina’s newly approved electoral distict map reshapes North Carolina’s 1st Congressional, a district largely made up of Black voters and respresented by the state’s only Black member of Congress so that the Black majority is eroded, making the rural distict essentially unwinnable by a Democratic – let alone – Black canidate.

Although as many

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