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Decimating Black and Brown Representation. Texas’s Redistricting War Erases Five Seats
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45:58Now PlayingA searing look at how Texas mapmakers are waging a political war to strip five congressional seats and silence Black and Brown communities through targeted redistricting.
🔥 “War in Texas trying to steal five congressional seats”—a direct assault on democracy
🔥 “Decimating not only the Democrats’ numbers but Black and Brown representation”—racially targeted power grabs
🔥 Map lines drawn as battle lines, weaponizing race to disenfranchise voters
🔥 Five communities erased, their voices muted in legislatures and Congress
🔥 The stakes: if we don’t push back now, the model spreads to every state
#TexasRedistricting #VotingRights #Gerrymandering #BlackVoicesMatter #BrownVoicesMatter #Democracy
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