Sounds a lot like the plot of that film ‘civil war’

California has an indepenent committee that draws the maps. This action will require a statewide vote to temporarily override that committee's maps for this purpose. I don't think the vote would have succeeded before Trump won. Remains to be seen if the vote will succeed now.

California held out hope that America was a representative democracy?

It's amazing how many Americans seem to have wanted the Democrats to stage a coup to keep the Republicans from staging a coup.

You can quote me on this. Not only will this not work. They won't even actually implement anything to a degree that would even be able to make a difference.

Source: Democrats saying things and not following through for my entire lifetime.

Ah, its already on really flimsy ground thanks to GOP fuckery and cowardice.

The House is supposed to provide proportional representation, per the US Constitution. It has not since the early 20th century. Instead, it gives significant increased representation to people in lower population states.

You're democracy is long since dead and burned, friend.

This has already been going on for decades. It’s just the democrats are actually finally talking about fighting back as long as their oligarch backers approve.

This is where we’re at

It's a quote from Newsom's tweets where he was heavily taking the piss out of how Epstein's best friend Donald writes his own posts. Because if there's one thing that gets under a narcissist's skin, it's being mocked publicly. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MATTER.

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, California eliminates all Republican seats and Texas eliminates all Democratic seats…

Texas will struggle to eliminate all Dem districts, simply because there are too many Dem voters. You're looking at a 1.5M spread of voters between R and D in Texas relative to a 3.2M spread in California.

When a given district has roughly 600k people (of whom barely half reliably vote), it becomes incredibly difficult to crack the existing Dem population into subsets small enough to guarantee a 55/45 split for each Republican candidate. The only real alternative is to pack as many Dems into a single district as possible, in order to dilute the remainder. That's why the current Texas map only promises to flip 5 seats and leave 7 remaining.

Even then, you're playing a dangerous game - a la 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2018 - in which a vibe shift costs you dozens of seats very quickly. The Republicans in 2008, for instance, lost every single House Seat in New England.

California can easily gerrymander their Republican minority out of another five seats (maybe more with some clever math) because of the hard liberal swing the state has been on since the Bush Era.

Worth noting, midterm swings in the house almost always goes against the sitting president’s party by a lot. 2022 was a history low (-9). I think the expectation is for the swing to be much higher.

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Majority-Changes/Majority-Changes/

Edit: better link

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/seats-congress-gainedlost-the-presidents-party-mid-term-elections

So... When are we going to stop pretending america is a democracy?

Good thing other states are looking to follow Newsom's lead.