More than just matching their play step by step is required. The rules in the democracy game that determine legal play include enforcing the federal law against insurrection and other crimes. Democrats must enforce the law when they control the government in 2029 to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail Republicans and six justices on the Supreme Court who have violated the federal law by supporting many types of insurrection acts.
Why did they not enforce the law after January 6th. If they had acted faster after a failed coup and not let Trump walk free hence you would not be in the situation you are in now. To an outsider it looks like the Democratic leadership is all talk and no action. Strong words are wasted on this autocratic regime. Are they afraid of losing the big campaign money and therefore cave in too often.
There was obstruction to law enforcement from the Supreme Court, Republicans in Congress and federal judges including Aileen Cannon but Democrats and the news media didn’t recognize that the federal law criminal against supporting acts of insurrection was violated. Democrats must never make that mistake again when they control the presidency, the DOJ and Congress. Problem is the public (we the people) don’t know the law against insurrection or advocating taking over the government by force or violence and they rely on their representatives in government and the news media. Public education in the future should educate students on those laws and other Constitutional rights including due process, and free speech, and the laws that enforce the rights or the doctrines including qualified immunity that block enforcement of the laws.
All of this gerrymandering is awful but it can often be thwarted by overwhelming Democratic turnout augmented by Independents and disillusioned Republicans. The midterms are no longer just a contest between Republicans and Democrats. It's a fight to determine whether we want to continue as a constitutional republic or if we prefer an autocracy ruled by a strongman.
The hidden threat to the midterms may be corrupted election software, something that is receiving little attention. Both companies that manufacture most of the election equipment and write the election software are now owned by Trump supporters. The Election Assistance Commission, like most federal agencies and commissions, has been stacked with Trump supporters and as recently noted by Mark Elias' "Democracy Docket," its technical committee that oversees election software has been gutted by Trump. The vendors contracted by the Election Assistance Commission to certify that the election software works correctly are owned by Trump supporters.
It is not inconceivable that the election software could be written to tweak close votes without detection to favor desired candidates. Election Truth Alliance conducted numerous studies of data from the 2024 presidential election and found numerous unexplainable statistical anomalies in an election where Trump improbably won all swing states yet Democrats failed to insist on any recounts. Paper ballots are an effective tool only if they are used to verify results of the computer tabulated vote. Local election officials test voting equipment on election day, but computer code can be written to deceive tests much as Volkswagen wrote their diesel engine management software to deceive emissions tests for years. So called "risk limiting audits" are so hit or miss they are a joke. For instance, in the 2024 election in Pennsylvania where there were questions about the presidential vote count, the risk limiting audit was conducted on the state treasurer race!
Trump must corrupt the midterms to keep Republicans in control of the House and Senate to complete his authoritarian takeover and protect himself and his cronies. We know he has no ethical or moral limits. He will do anything, legal and illegal, to achieve his goals. He and his sycophants are constantly surprising us with their ingenuity and brazzeness. While enormous attention is being paid to Trump's attempts to suppress the vote, no attention is being paid to whether or not he and his operatives are attempting to manipulate the vote count. Someone in authority must conduct a line by line forensic analysis of the computer code in our election software before the midterms. Democrats must challenge improbable wins by Republicans and stand firm if Trump tries to seize ballots and equipment in districts being challenged.
I agree with you 100%. The “fellahn” pulling the strings in the coming elections will not stop at anything, cheating and looting are bred in his bones, his mantra is “nice guys finish last”. We don’t have to get down to his level, which is lower than a snake’s belly, but we do have to do more than “be concerned”. We must Fight Fire with our own brand of Fire which must be just as effective.
Project 2026 If Brazil and Hungary can do it, so can we!
Win the Senate and House, Impeach and Prosecute.
ORGANIZE ORGANIZE ORGANIZE!!!!!
ORGANIZE OVER THE COMMON GOOD DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. JUST READ THE PLATFORM BULLET POINTS. ORGANIZE!!!!
ALLEGIANCE TO OUR PLATFORM AND THE CANDIDATE THAT PROMOTES OUR PLATFORM!
GOOGLE YOUR STATES DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM TO READ IT!
MAKE AMERICA GRATEFUL AGAIN!
The Democratic Platform IS the Preamble to Our Constitution
The Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Democratic Party should be the party of Interdependent voters..
Relative Proximity Index (RPI) is a politically neutral method for districting based upon simple geometry. Dr Fryer ran simulations for a number of states showing how this method could take the politics out of gaming the districts. It also changes how many races are actually competitive.
If the Electoral College can’t be done away with anytime soon, this offers a non-political solution that congress could approve. It would help take the gaming out of districting.
Thanks for your thoughts. They are always much appreciated.
Bob. It's more than gerrymandering, although as you note that alone could put us down by 15 seats. It's interference with votes. As Nathan Taylor says, it's not voter fraud, because that's when a person votes (or attempts to vote) illegally. No, this is machines--percentage-based algorithmic irregularities in recent elections. Here's some data on Massie's recent "defeat" by Gallrein:
The GOP appears to be practicing on their own, defeating GOPers Trump doesn't like. They're going to practice on us in the midterms, though. And we won't like the results--subtly engineered pro-Trump results that are very close, so they look extremely plausible, and leave us wringing our hands and lamenting that we should have worked harder, lamenting that it's just so hard to believe that Trump is still so popular. Well, he isn't. He's gerrymandering everywhere, commandeering the Post Office so not all mail ballots will be delivered, and monkeying with algorithms and modems so election results are skewed. Unless we do a Hungary, and get 65% of voters to vote Democratic, I think Trump has entrenched his plans to skew the midterms his way.
Many of us who watch and listen to Bob's short videos are progressives. And most likely, members of MAGA avoid them. But people we really want to see them are the 45% of voters who are independents. Presenting goofy images of the Professor as an inducement to watch the videos is not likely to attract them. This is serious business he's discussing; stop demeaning the subject, and him too, with adolescent, cartoonish come-ons.
Agree. The tightlines of fairness and honest elections is bypassed by the corruption of the GOP and Trump. California was leading the way and hopefully the courts will agree that it is not a one-sided gerrymandering effort.
Overwhelming turnout in districts made less safe for maga through their own gerrymandering is the key!
A big part of that can occur in Texas. If Talarico can evoke massive turnout for the Senate race, things will be better in Texas House races in the newly-gerrymandered districts.
So get people to turn out for Talarico!
Even if he doesn't win his race (forgive me), part of the House will be riding his coattails, so big Talarico turnout will matter for the House races no matter what happens in the Senate race.
I live in Fairfax Virginia, and the Democrats had a new map redrawn to add more blue seats. The vote on the map passed. However it was challenged in court, and eventually went before the US Supreme Court where they shut down the effort for Virginia.
I like playing by the rules. I truly don't like the idea of gerrymandering, but I held my nose and voted FOR the new more blue map. Our state was not able to get the maps changed. So what happens when we try and fight fire with fire and it fails???
I would rather have everyone voting that is eligible. ONE COUNTED VOTE CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING!
When we have a divided electorate, every vote counts. If the citizens of the state of Virginia that voted for Trump and his supported legislators are having second thoughts, in the general election(s) they can choose a candidate that supports and offers an sane ideal, a better plan, a cogent message that focuses on fixing the things that hurt - our economy, our ability to protect all people of our communities, etc. here in Virginia.
I will say this again, I would rather have everyone voting that is eligible - especially every eligible voter that is not happy with what we have now, is disenfranchised, or is just fed up with this whack-a-mole administration.
Get everyone to vote in every contest, always. We have a democracy that supports making changes, so let's make a change.
I think it's probably time for the Democratic Party to be dissolved and the Republican Party too of course. Our country needs new parties with somewhat different principles and goals than the present ones. It might be better if we had multiple parties instead of two as is the case in much of Europe and elsewhere around the world. The selection process itself should likely be changed as well. It has never been shown that the voters themselves have ever engaged in any kind of fraud. However all kinds of fraud has probably been happening elsewhere in the voting process for many years, perhaps decades, from manipulation of voting machines, especially the software that keeps them running, to fairly simple manipulations upstream in the vote counting, things that have never been officially investigated as far as I have seen, and would not be noticed on the day of vote counting. I have read about the results of forensic audits of the 2024 election by a couple of different groups whose names escape me right now but who are organized by individuals who care greatly about democracy. As one example they found in several states that there were votes that put Trump over the top that came from counties that do not exist in that state. I'm sure there will be much election process fraud being perpetrated by the far right in the 2026 midterms but I suspect, because Republicans have so little actual support among ordinary voters, the Democrats will probably win anyway, but with a much narrower margin than should actually be the case.
But I digress. You asked about the future of the Democratic party. I think it should disappear because so many of the persons running it are corrupt politicians themselves. They do a much better job than those on the right at keeping their activities under the radar. They have never done much of anything at challenging the fraudulent activities of the opposition because they are also benefitting from the status quo by being confronted by opportunities right in front of them to enrich themselves which many, most likely a large majority, have been taking advantage of. We need new people, in most cases younger people, with better ideas and stronger ideals, to manage a government that is organized in such a way to make graft much less attractive and harder to access and voting process manipulation harder to perpetrate. I think such people might be ready to start appearing on the scene fairly soon. Not in time for the coming midterms, most of them, but fairly soon. They might come from unlikely places and sometimes with questionable backgrounds, such as Graham Platner in Maine, for instance, but it is crucial that we welcome each one with an open mind and evaluate them with all the critical thinking skills we have at our disposal. I think it's possible, not necessarily probable, that we might arrive at a government that actually works to maintain a decent life for the American people, and works also to uphold their ideals and moral convictions.
We in Virginia did try. We held a referendum on a redistricting map that would have added four Democratic congressional seats, and we won. But the four Republican members of our State Supreme Court took away our votes, even after they had, just months earlier, given the referendum the green light to proceed, because the outcome did not come out their way.
Four Republicans stole the votes of millions of Virginians, one of which was mine.
It may be that these are desperate times for Democrats and indeed anyone who is fed up of the Trump regime, but this does look to me like a race to the bottom. There is a risk that a strategy like this will not work anyway because right-wing judges my thwart such attempts by the Democratic party on any spurious ground they can find. For example, last December the Supreme Court blocked a lower court order striking down Texas’s congressional map as racially discriminatory. In its 4 December order, the court said that it was too close to Texas’s March primary elections to require the state to impose a new map.
The Virginia supreme court has kept in place a lower court block on the state's new congressional map even though voters had approved it, albeit narrowly.
Furthermore, commentators have pointed out the risks entailed in a such a strategy by Republican states. Surely the greatest of these is Donald Trump's tanking popularity which is a drag on the Republican ticket. Trump is such a fool that this hardly likely to change between now and the general election, never mind the midterms.
What Democrats should be doing is advocating for a new Voting Rights Act that avoids the fake constitutional pitfalls posed by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court (ideally, in my view as an outsider, you really need a much better-written constitution because yours is awful). Such legislation should abolish the Electoral College in favour of a fairer voting system (and there are many), establish majority voting in states (the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact) and ban gerrymandering altogether.
I realise, of course, that you have to operate under the current flawed system to win congressional majorities in both chambers, backed up by winning more down-ticket races on state and local legislatures, in order to stop the Trump juggernaut.
There was a similar problem in Britain in the 19th century with the creation of the so-called 'rotten boroughs', tiny, under-populated parliamentary constituences that were returning one or more MPs to oad government party majorities. They were abolished under the Reform Act 1832. Ultimately, you will need a similar groundswell of popular anger against Republican corruption and frankly I don't see it yet even though, for obvious reasons, I remain hopeful that the fightback can begin in earnest in November.
YES! When playing against a cheater, you can't win by playing by the normal rules. You need to match their play step for step!
More than just matching their play step by step is required. The rules in the democracy game that determine legal play include enforcing the federal law against insurrection and other crimes. Democrats must enforce the law when they control the government in 2029 to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail Republicans and six justices on the Supreme Court who have violated the federal law by supporting many types of insurrection acts.
Why did they not enforce the law after January 6th. If they had acted faster after a failed coup and not let Trump walk free hence you would not be in the situation you are in now. To an outsider it looks like the Democratic leadership is all talk and no action. Strong words are wasted on this autocratic regime. Are they afraid of losing the big campaign money and therefore cave in too often.
There was obstruction to law enforcement from the Supreme Court, Republicans in Congress and federal judges including Aileen Cannon but Democrats and the news media didn’t recognize that the federal law criminal against supporting acts of insurrection was violated. Democrats must never make that mistake again when they control the presidency, the DOJ and Congress. Problem is the public (we the people) don’t know the law against insurrection or advocating taking over the government by force or violence and they rely on their representatives in government and the news media. Public education in the future should educate students on those laws and other Constitutional rights including due process, and free speech, and the laws that enforce the rights or the doctrines including qualified immunity that block enforcement of the laws.
You are absolutely correct.
Sadly very true!
Democrats need to fight fire with fire instead of chatter!
You will fall into the trap of MAGA stupidity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ozCD8nD5pLo
All of this gerrymandering is awful but it can often be thwarted by overwhelming Democratic turnout augmented by Independents and disillusioned Republicans. The midterms are no longer just a contest between Republicans and Democrats. It's a fight to determine whether we want to continue as a constitutional republic or if we prefer an autocracy ruled by a strongman.
The hidden threat to the midterms may be corrupted election software, something that is receiving little attention. Both companies that manufacture most of the election equipment and write the election software are now owned by Trump supporters. The Election Assistance Commission, like most federal agencies and commissions, has been stacked with Trump supporters and as recently noted by Mark Elias' "Democracy Docket," its technical committee that oversees election software has been gutted by Trump. The vendors contracted by the Election Assistance Commission to certify that the election software works correctly are owned by Trump supporters.
It is not inconceivable that the election software could be written to tweak close votes without detection to favor desired candidates. Election Truth Alliance conducted numerous studies of data from the 2024 presidential election and found numerous unexplainable statistical anomalies in an election where Trump improbably won all swing states yet Democrats failed to insist on any recounts. Paper ballots are an effective tool only if they are used to verify results of the computer tabulated vote. Local election officials test voting equipment on election day, but computer code can be written to deceive tests much as Volkswagen wrote their diesel engine management software to deceive emissions tests for years. So called "risk limiting audits" are so hit or miss they are a joke. For instance, in the 2024 election in Pennsylvania where there were questions about the presidential vote count, the risk limiting audit was conducted on the state treasurer race!
Trump must corrupt the midterms to keep Republicans in control of the House and Senate to complete his authoritarian takeover and protect himself and his cronies. We know he has no ethical or moral limits. He will do anything, legal and illegal, to achieve his goals. He and his sycophants are constantly surprising us with their ingenuity and brazzeness. While enormous attention is being paid to Trump's attempts to suppress the vote, no attention is being paid to whether or not he and his operatives are attempting to manipulate the vote count. Someone in authority must conduct a line by line forensic analysis of the computer code in our election software before the midterms. Democrats must challenge improbable wins by Republicans and stand firm if Trump tries to seize ballots and equipment in districts being challenged.
@Urban Hermit
I agree with you 100%. The “fellahn” pulling the strings in the coming elections will not stop at anything, cheating and looting are bred in his bones, his mantra is “nice guys finish last”. We don’t have to get down to his level, which is lower than a snake’s belly, but we do have to do more than “be concerned”. We must Fight Fire with our own brand of Fire which must be just as effective.
Project 2026 If Brazil and Hungary can do it, so can we!
Win the Senate and House, Impeach and Prosecute.
ORGANIZE ORGANIZE ORGANIZE!!!!!
ORGANIZE OVER THE COMMON GOOD DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. JUST READ THE PLATFORM BULLET POINTS. ORGANIZE!!!!
ALLEGIANCE TO OUR PLATFORM AND THE CANDIDATE THAT PROMOTES OUR PLATFORM!
GOOGLE YOUR STATES DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM TO READ IT!
MAKE AMERICA GRATEFUL AGAIN!
The Democratic Platform IS the Preamble to Our Constitution
The Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Democratic Party should be the party of Interdependent voters..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Official Audio) Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
Robert -
If you have not already, please take a look at Dr. Roland Fryer’s Op-Ed in the NYTimes from Aug. 12, 2025 titled: Geometry Solves Gerrymandering.
Dr. Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/math-solution-gerrymandering.html
Relative Proximity Index (RPI) is a politically neutral method for districting based upon simple geometry. Dr Fryer ran simulations for a number of states showing how this method could take the politics out of gaming the districts. It also changes how many races are actually competitive.
If the Electoral College can’t be done away with anytime soon, this offers a non-political solution that congress could approve. It would help take the gaming out of districting.
Thanks for your thoughts. They are always much appreciated.
Presidential elections should be
ONE VOICE. =. ONE VOTE
ABOLISH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
I keep wondering whether voters aren’t put off to be treated like live lumber, to be toted about.
Like Cattle?
Thoroughly and voluntarily branded cattle.
or chattel
Or simply be pushed away and ignored - like things instead of the human beings that they are.
And if district gerrymandered that cant be overcome. Gerrymander means eligible voters limited
Bob. It's more than gerrymandering, although as you note that alone could put us down by 15 seats. It's interference with votes. As Nathan Taylor says, it's not voter fraud, because that's when a person votes (or attempts to vote) illegally. No, this is machines--percentage-based algorithmic irregularities in recent elections. Here's some data on Massie's recent "defeat" by Gallrein:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/3/?ogbl#inbox/FMfcgzQgMVlhDNVMtMsLnfjBJJqlJgCT.
The GOP appears to be practicing on their own, defeating GOPers Trump doesn't like. They're going to practice on us in the midterms, though. And we won't like the results--subtly engineered pro-Trump results that are very close, so they look extremely plausible, and leave us wringing our hands and lamenting that we should have worked harder, lamenting that it's just so hard to believe that Trump is still so popular. Well, he isn't. He's gerrymandering everywhere, commandeering the Post Office so not all mail ballots will be delivered, and monkeying with algorithms and modems so election results are skewed. Unless we do a Hungary, and get 65% of voters to vote Democratic, I think Trump has entrenched his plans to skew the midterms his way.
Let's do something. At least raise the alarm.
Many of us who watch and listen to Bob's short videos are progressives. And most likely, members of MAGA avoid them. But people we really want to see them are the 45% of voters who are independents. Presenting goofy images of the Professor as an inducement to watch the videos is not likely to attract them. This is serious business he's discussing; stop demeaning the subject, and him too, with adolescent, cartoonish come-ons.
Agree. The tightlines of fairness and honest elections is bypassed by the corruption of the GOP and Trump. California was leading the way and hopefully the courts will agree that it is not a one-sided gerrymandering effort.
Overwhelming turnout in districts made less safe for maga through their own gerrymandering is the key!
A big part of that can occur in Texas. If Talarico can evoke massive turnout for the Senate race, things will be better in Texas House races in the newly-gerrymandered districts.
So get people to turn out for Talarico!
Even if he doesn't win his race (forgive me), part of the House will be riding his coattails, so big Talarico turnout will matter for the House races no matter what happens in the Senate race.
lettuce hope love take hates prey away
I live in Fairfax Virginia, and the Democrats had a new map redrawn to add more blue seats. The vote on the map passed. However it was challenged in court, and eventually went before the US Supreme Court where they shut down the effort for Virginia.
I like playing by the rules. I truly don't like the idea of gerrymandering, but I held my nose and voted FOR the new more blue map. Our state was not able to get the maps changed. So what happens when we try and fight fire with fire and it fails???
I would rather have everyone voting that is eligible. ONE COUNTED VOTE CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING!
When we have a divided electorate, every vote counts. If the citizens of the state of Virginia that voted for Trump and his supported legislators are having second thoughts, in the general election(s) they can choose a candidate that supports and offers an sane ideal, a better plan, a cogent message that focuses on fixing the things that hurt - our economy, our ability to protect all people of our communities, etc. here in Virginia.
I will say this again, I would rather have everyone voting that is eligible - especially every eligible voter that is not happy with what we have now, is disenfranchised, or is just fed up with this whack-a-mole administration.
Get everyone to vote in every contest, always. We have a democracy that supports making changes, so let's make a change.
I think it's probably time for the Democratic Party to be dissolved and the Republican Party too of course. Our country needs new parties with somewhat different principles and goals than the present ones. It might be better if we had multiple parties instead of two as is the case in much of Europe and elsewhere around the world. The selection process itself should likely be changed as well. It has never been shown that the voters themselves have ever engaged in any kind of fraud. However all kinds of fraud has probably been happening elsewhere in the voting process for many years, perhaps decades, from manipulation of voting machines, especially the software that keeps them running, to fairly simple manipulations upstream in the vote counting, things that have never been officially investigated as far as I have seen, and would not be noticed on the day of vote counting. I have read about the results of forensic audits of the 2024 election by a couple of different groups whose names escape me right now but who are organized by individuals who care greatly about democracy. As one example they found in several states that there were votes that put Trump over the top that came from counties that do not exist in that state. I'm sure there will be much election process fraud being perpetrated by the far right in the 2026 midterms but I suspect, because Republicans have so little actual support among ordinary voters, the Democrats will probably win anyway, but with a much narrower margin than should actually be the case.
But I digress. You asked about the future of the Democratic party. I think it should disappear because so many of the persons running it are corrupt politicians themselves. They do a much better job than those on the right at keeping their activities under the radar. They have never done much of anything at challenging the fraudulent activities of the opposition because they are also benefitting from the status quo by being confronted by opportunities right in front of them to enrich themselves which many, most likely a large majority, have been taking advantage of. We need new people, in most cases younger people, with better ideas and stronger ideals, to manage a government that is organized in such a way to make graft much less attractive and harder to access and voting process manipulation harder to perpetrate. I think such people might be ready to start appearing on the scene fairly soon. Not in time for the coming midterms, most of them, but fairly soon. They might come from unlikely places and sometimes with questionable backgrounds, such as Graham Platner in Maine, for instance, but it is crucial that we welcome each one with an open mind and evaluate them with all the critical thinking skills we have at our disposal. I think it's possible, not necessarily probable, that we might arrive at a government that actually works to maintain a decent life for the American people, and works also to uphold their ideals and moral convictions.
We in Virginia did try. We held a referendum on a redistricting map that would have added four Democratic congressional seats, and we won. But the four Republican members of our State Supreme Court took away our votes, even after they had, just months earlier, given the referendum the green light to proceed, because the outcome did not come out their way.
Four Republicans stole the votes of millions of Virginians, one of which was mine.
It may be that these are desperate times for Democrats and indeed anyone who is fed up of the Trump regime, but this does look to me like a race to the bottom. There is a risk that a strategy like this will not work anyway because right-wing judges my thwart such attempts by the Democratic party on any spurious ground they can find. For example, last December the Supreme Court blocked a lower court order striking down Texas’s congressional map as racially discriminatory. In its 4 December order, the court said that it was too close to Texas’s March primary elections to require the state to impose a new map.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/us-supreme-court-texas-congressional-maps
The Virginia supreme court has kept in place a lower court block on the state's new congressional map even though voters had approved it, albeit narrowly.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/virginia-supreme-court-keeps-block-on-redistricting-while-it-weighs-new-congressional-map-s-fate/ar-AA21WwFo
Furthermore, commentators have pointed out the risks entailed in a such a strategy by Republican states. Surely the greatest of these is Donald Trump's tanking popularity which is a drag on the Republican ticket. Trump is such a fool that this hardly likely to change between now and the general election, never mind the midterms.
https://theconversation.com/3-reasons-republicans-redistricting-power-grab-might-backfire-262553
What Democrats should be doing is advocating for a new Voting Rights Act that avoids the fake constitutional pitfalls posed by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court (ideally, in my view as an outsider, you really need a much better-written constitution because yours is awful). Such legislation should abolish the Electoral College in favour of a fairer voting system (and there are many), establish majority voting in states (the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact) and ban gerrymandering altogether.
I realise, of course, that you have to operate under the current flawed system to win congressional majorities in both chambers, backed up by winning more down-ticket races on state and local legislatures, in order to stop the Trump juggernaut.
There was a similar problem in Britain in the 19th century with the creation of the so-called 'rotten boroughs', tiny, under-populated parliamentary constituences that were returning one or more MPs to oad government party majorities. They were abolished under the Reform Act 1832. Ultimately, you will need a similar groundswell of popular anger against Republican corruption and frankly I don't see it yet even though, for obvious reasons, I remain hopeful that the fightback can begin in earnest in November.