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What Blue States should do if Red States super-gerrymander

How to avoid a race to the bottom

Robert Reich
Aug 08, 2025
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Friends,

When Democrats gathered in Philadelphia eight years ago, Michelle Obama famously declared, “When they go low, we go high.”

But now that Texas’s Governor Greg Abbott — at the presumed direction of Trump, — has gone so low as to seek to super-gerrymander Texas’s congressional districts to come up with five additional Republican seats in order to ma…

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