Yet another southern state teaming up to recreate the confederacy. They might do well to remember things didn't go well for the confederacy the first time around.
Likely won't this time either.
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Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.
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BREAKING—Tennessee Republicans have voted to draw new maps that will *eliminate* the state's only Black-majority district & the only seat held by a Democrat.
@justinjpearson.bsky.social: "As long as we never quit, they cannot win. We may lose some battles along the way, but this war is a long one."
Rep. Justin Pearson lays out how Republicans scrambled to redraw the district he's running in, how Democrats failed to prevent this moment, and why he's fighting for kids whose names he'll never know.
