He is doing it... it's being put to a vote as a trigger law, to take effect immediately if Texas does it. Most blue states have independent restricting commissions by state constitutional amendment. The referendum is to provide cover for doing it. It's what every blue state should do.
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I don't know. I think Newsom is a greasy snake, but also no one else was really stepping up to be the face of opposition. While he's only pushing back like this out of naked self-interest for 2028, at least he's not mealy-mouthed or folding like nearly everyone else. Do I think his resistance is principled? Not really. But I don't know that if he stepped back that the resulting vacuum would actually be filled.
Billionaires and democracy cannot coexist, which means billionaires must not be allowed to exist. Whether through taxation or some other means.
Mark my words: if this goes on long enough, they'll eventually praise slavery openly, without allusion or euphemism.
Nah. Mamdani will easily win.
This guy continues to act on a regular basis, but it's almost all IMDb 2.0-4.9 garbage made for Tubi, like Andy the Talking Hedgehog (2.1) or The Three Dogateers (2.9). A decade or two ago he was at least getting guest roles on network TV (most recently he was in six episodes of Supergirl 10 years ago), but now he's apparently exclusively in animal (mostly dog) movies and God movies.
A couple years ago he did somehow manage to get a guest role in one episode of The Curse (Paramount+), which is the most notable thing he's done since that Supergirl gig.
I'm saying they don't reward or punish it because they're too apathetic to care, so you might as well do everything you can to resist authoritarianism.
Partisans do pay attention and see this as putting up a fight. And turning out your base is the most important thing you can do in a mid-cycle election.
Washington has a bipartisan redistricting commission by state constitutional amendment. They would need the cooperation of Republicans to reconvene the bipartisan redistricting commission, then the cooperation of Republicans to gerrymander away eastern Washington (the areas they come from). It won't happen. They may be able to make a purple district more safe.
The bipartisan commission does give a disproportionate voice to Republicans relative to actual apportionment in the state legislature by giving each of the top two parties two seats (with a nonvoting chair), but it's a direct result of the unambiguous wording of the amendment. There would need to be another amendment to update that commission's composition.
The better strategy at this point is to draw a clear and simple distinction that the everyone can easily understand - the Democratic party doesn't redistrict without a new census and they don't ever say they're drawing districts just to disadvantage...
Hello, I'm the average voter, and I just fell asleep when you said "mid-census redistricting" and something about tyrants.
This is a losing strategy. The other strategy is probably also a losing strategy, but at least it's going down swinging. The single greatest thing Democrats could do to get people in a voting booth is run on an anti-corruption, progressive economic agenda and show some backbone.
At what point along the "trying to murder you" timeline is it OK to respond in self-defense?
The letter is political cover for the partisan referendum, nothing more. No one expects Trump to do the right thing for the country.