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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Links - 27th May 2026 (1 - Voting & Elections in the US [including Virginia Gerrymandering])

VoteHub on X - "🚨 BREAKING — A circuit court judge has upheld Missouri’s new pro-GOP congressional map, which is expected to eliminate the Kansas City area Democratic district represented by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver."
Chris on X - "Fascinating how Missouri's new map that takes an Trump +18 state from 6-2 to 7-1 gets labelled as a "pro-GOP map" but Virginia's new map that takes a Harris +6 state from 6-5 to 10-1 does not warrant a corresponding "pro-Democrat" label. Very interesting!"

The Democrats' 'gerrymandering ban' was no such thing - "As Democrats support a deceptively worded ballot measure to create a rank partisan gerrymander in Virginia, they nevertheless claim the moral high ground, and many in the news media agree with the Democrats. Other than crying “Republicans started it,” they point to so-called “gerrymandering bans” that Democrats proposed and Republicans in Congress killed... There was no vote on that gerrymandering language Kapur cites... The ‘redistricting reform’ in the bill would actually mandate racial gerrymandering... The ‘redistricting reform’ in the bill denigrated or omitted rules that would actually limit gerrymandering... There were good provisions in the bill, including a ban on mid-decade redistricting. This was a massive campaign-finance bill that basically repealed voter ID laws, required racial gerrymandering, and banned or denigrated actual gerrymandering reforms. As a cherry on top, the chief sponsor of the House version was former Maryland Rep. John Sarbanes, who represented the most gerrymandered district in America. So no, Republicans didn’t vote against gerrymander reform. They voted against a bad Democratic election bill."

Zachary Werrell, Esq. on X - "Some gerrymandering stats for everyone. Going into this fight, Democrats in California get 58% of the vote, but their congressional maps were 43:9, or 83% democrats. Their new California maps will be 48:4, or 93% democrats. Illinois was 55% for democrats, but their districts are 14:3 for democrats, or 83%. Meanwhile, Texas was 56% for Trump, but 25:13 for their congressional seats, or 66% republicans. Their redistricting makes it 30:8, or 79% for republicans. Democrats in Virginia have taken a state that went 51-48% for Kamala, and redrawn a 6:5 (or 55% for democrats) and made it 10:1, or 91% democrats. No honest or thinking person can say the republicans are in the wrong here. As always with democrats, every accusation is an admission… (And, if not for double standards, the Democrats would have no standards at all.)"

Meme - V @V35000: "Democrats attempted to disenfranchise >40% of Virginia's voter. That seems worth of judicial rebuke. There is nothing democratic about the Democratic Party."
"How Virginians Vote *almost all red districts*
Virginia's Current Congressional Districts *just over half blue districts*
What Dems Think is "Fair" *1 Republican and 10 Democrat districts*"

Wid Lyman on X - "August 25, 2025. Governor Spanberger, then nominee, tells ABC7 she has no plans to redistrict Virginia. “Short answer is, no.”"
Lying is only bad when it hurts the left wing agenda

Virginia Democrats push gerrymander scheme, Trump should eye retrocession - "If you’re proud of something, you want people to see it. That is why it’s telling that Virginia Democrats are asking Old Dominion residents to vote for a redistricting scheme without allowing their proposed map to be printed on the ballots. But it’s no wonder: the mid-decade redistricting proposal is an obscene gerrymander that will wipe out all but one GOP-leaning congressional district in the state. And, of course, they claim it’s all done in the name of "democracy." This dishonest power play seeks to make the congressional representation of a purple state nearly as blue as Massachusetts. It disenfranchises nearly half the commonwealth (Virginia went 51.8%-46.6% for Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024). The proposed districts are extreme – running from heavily populated blue areas deep into rural red areas. Federal government employees in Arlington and Fairfax will essentially dictate the congressional representation of farmers and shopkeepers up to 100 miles away... So, what can the president and his allies do? Aside from motivating Virginia residents to oppose this power grab, Trump has another tool he can use to "fight back," to borrow the supporters’ phrase. He could fight fire with fire and choose another type of re-Districting. In 1790, Virginia and Maryland each gave five square miles of land to the Federal government to create a district for a new national capital. That Virginia land remained part of the District of Columbia until 1847, when it was retroceded to the commonwealth. The shameful reason for that retrocession was protecting slavery in Virginia when the district abolished it. This became moot after the Union defeated the ancestors of this current effort to rig elections and resist the elected federal leadership in the Civil War. Other presidents, including William Howard Taft, have considered retrocession unconstitutional and wanted to reclaim the land for the district, but the Supreme Court has never been asked to weigh in. President Trump could issue an executive order declaring the slavery-motivated retrocession unconstitutional, triggering certain legal action, and allowing the courts to finally weigh in on whether the county of Arlington and the city of Alexandria in fact properly belong to the District of Columbia. This order would be on better legal footing than many of President Joe Biden’s most egregious orders, such as those imposing an eviction moratorium or forgiving billions in student debt with the stroke of an (auto) pen. As some of the deepest blue areas of the commonwealth – and the country – and loaded with federal government employees, residents of this region should feel right at home as part of D.C. In an ad pushing for voters to back her party’s gerrymandering scheme, Gov. Abigail Spanberger calls this an "extraordinary moment." So it is. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures – measures that, unlike the "Virgerrymander," are legal and ethical. If Virginia Democrats’ redistricting succeeds, President Trump should re-District Virginia. It will not only neutralize the president’s political opponents’ move to stack Congress against him – thus protecting him from another likely sham impeachment – but, most importantly, it will save a great number of red Virginians from having their votes canceled out by deep blue D.C.-adjacent liberals."

Ethan C7 on X - "Needless to say, there’s no way Virginia’s redistricting referendum would’ve passed if Trump didn’t fire the opening salvo in Texas. In fact, Dems are now projected to HANDILY win the mid-decade redistricting fight this cycle. Play with fire, don’t cry if you get burned."
Matt Forney on X - "The first mid-decade redistricting of the 2020s was when New York passed a gerrymandered map in 2024. This was after they had tried to cram all the state's Republicans into four out of 26 districts only to get sued for violating the state constitution and a special master was appointed to draw fair maps. In the 2022 midterms, the extreme unpopularity of both Joe Biden and Kathy Hochul saw the Republicans gain four of New York's seats (the net change was only +3 due to New York losing a Republican district in the Buffalo suburbs). This was the best result the GOP had in the state in decades. A year later, the Democratic state government sued to replace the fair map with a slightly-less gerrymandered map and the Republicans lost three seats in 2024 despite getting roughly the same percentage of the vote. So no, YOU literally started this fight. Joke's on you, though, at least in New York; population loss from primarily Republican upstate has stalled while people are fleeing NYC like cockroaches from a floodlight. The next Census will force the Democrats to drop one or two seats from the NYC area."
This doesn't stop left wingers continually accusing Republicans of being the first ones to gerrymander

Occupy Democrats on X - "BREAKING: The U.S. Marshals Service releases a stunning report showing that serious threats against federal judges have more than DOUBLED since the 2020 election — a direct and obvious result of Donald Trump's fascist lies. Republicans are letting MAGA destroy this country piece..."
Occupy Democrats on X - "BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivers a bold rallying cry to the judiciary and tells judges to stand tall as Donald Trump's fascist attacks on the courts escalate. This is exactly the kind of leadership America needs right now..."
Occupy Democrats | Facebook - "BREAKING: An OUTRAGEOUS ruling by a Republican-appointed judge in Virginia throws out the entire Democratic redistricting amendment and invalidates every vote from the April 21 special election! In a shocking decision that reeks of judicial favoritism, a judge in Tazewell County, where a statue of a confederate soldier looms over the courthouse, has declared the Democratic-backed maps “void from the start,” nullified all the votes cast last week, and permanently blocked the new congressional districts from ever taking effect. Attorney General Jay Jones immediately fired back, announcing that Democrats will appeal this ruling aggressively and take the fight all the way to the Virginia Supreme Court – and if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court – to defend fair maps and stop this blatant power play. Republicans are cheering because they know their grip on power depends on crooked maps and friendly judges rather than actually winning votes. Democrats are not backing down. This is yet another example of the Republicans using every tool at their disposal including the courts to rig the system and cling to power. The voters spoke, loudly, and the Republicans overturned the Will of the People. The battle for fair elections continues, and Democrats will fight tooth and nail to protect democracy from these partisan sabotage attempts. If you are as furious as we are about Republican judges undermining the will of the voters to protect rigged maps, like and share this post."
Criticising judges is only fascism and disrespect for the rule of law when they push the left wing agenda

Brian Allen on X - "Let me explain what just happened in Virginia. Yesterday, 2.5 million Virginians voted. They passed a redistricting amendment 50.7% to 49.3%. Today, one judge threw out every single vote. 🧵"
bumbadum on X - "In 1994 5 MILLION Californians voted for an amendment to ban illegal immigrants using tax payer funded programs. Then 1 judge overthrew the entire election. Doesn’t feel good when it happens to you huh?"
Stacy is Right on X - "Weird. You never had a problem with a single judge “throwing out” everything the President of the United States did and that 77.3 million voters wanted. Eat shit, you retard."
Not to mention, a lot of voters were tricked by the misleading wording on the vote

Black Robed Rulers - "Twenty years ago, Mark Levin warned about this prospect in his book, “Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America” by becoming what would essentially be a “super legislature” (a lot of this is because Congress – GOP and Dem alike – has become a feckless and worthless body, losing interest in governing and becoming what is basically a grand distributor of our tax money). Professor Cleveland’s tweet is really interesting in light of the Grand Spanberger Deception in redistricting that just transpired this week and the ballot initiative to ostensibly “hear the voice of the people” on how a 6-5 Dem/GOP representation in the US House is “unfair” and should be changed to a “fair” 10 Dem/1GOP representation. What I found interesting was not only the deception required but also the number of laws and regulations that had to be ignored just to get the deceptive language on the ballot. The exact ballot language is what got this whole thing into trouble, because it wasn’t a neutral, “here’s what this does” description. It was written in a way that framed the outcome as reform while obscuring the mechanism... I suppose people might not get the not so subtle messaging here that the former districts were drawn unfairly, they weren’t competitive or reflective of the Commonwealth’s population when the 6-5 representation accurately reflected a state population that Kamala Harris received only a 5 point edge over Trump in the presidential election. Somebody who did notice was Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley Jr. He laid out a consistent set of reasons for invalidating the redistricting amendment and blocking certification... It isn’t like this was unknown before the election. In January 2026, the circuit court ruled the amendment process was legally defective, focusing on procedural and constitutional violations. However, ballots were already being prepared or cast, the ruling didn’t immediately stop the election machinery, and the Spanberger regime went ahead anyway."

Virginia Supreme Court upholds pause on Democrats' stupid new map - "Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley had already blocked the Gerrymandering scheme before this vote, ruling that the whole thing was illegal on procedural grounds and that changing congressional districts this way required following strict constitutional amendment procedures. This was almost inevitable, but we're pretty stoked that the Virginia Supreme Court came through on this one!"
Naturally, left wingers were super upset over this, even though judges are forever blocking Trump (and those blocks are usually overturned since they are politically motivated). Judges blocking initiatives is only good when that helps the left wing agenda

Cynical Publius on X - "If you are a Millennial or later, you may be unaware of the near total domination Democrats had over American politics in the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s.  Yes, the Dems and the GOP swapped Presidencies pretty routinely, but Congress tended to be overwhelmingly Democrat.  When Newt Gingrich and his GOP team won a majority in the House in 1994, it was shocking and felt unbelievable.  Now, in 2026, we are truly coming to understand that for decades Democrat electoral victories were built on:
1. Artificial, racist voting district constructs, ostensibly under the Voting Rights Act.
2. Complete control of votes and voting in most large cities.
3. Taxpayer dollars funneled to Leftist NGOs to promote Democrat policies.
4. A mass media with complete obedience to Democrats.
5. Illegal aliens, both for purposes of census district apportionments and illegal voting.
6. Highly questionable voting practices such as mail-in ballots, lack of voter ID, ballot dropboxes and ballot "harvesting."
7. "Errors" in census data that always pointed one-way.
8. The success of calling anyone who challenged their voting policies "racist."
9. Federal government employees "resisting" GOP policies while showing complete fealty to Democrat policies.
Today, however, these electoral crutches are being kicked out one by one, and Democrats are becoming increasingly insane and violent as a result.  Reality is being laid bare, and we are all coming to understand just how artificial Democrat power actually has been.  In ten years they might be a powerless rump party, which suggests a third party supplanting the Democrats might soon be a reality.  It's shocking, isn't it?"

Wall Street Apes on X - "Lara Logan interviews Former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen who explains how elections are being stolen in America  🚨 He describes there are teams of statisticians, mathematicians, and hackers who map out every county and identify where margins can be quietly adjusted  Different techniques are used in each location so nothing matches in a recount. When a 70-30 county becomes 68-32, nobody notices. But when you add up these differences across an entire state, those tiny amounts of fraud decide outcomes  Both former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen and author Ralph Pezzullo explain the strategy. They explain they don't flip the big blue cities. Instead they shave votes in the places no one ever audits  “They know where they can find the dead people... Mm-hmm.”  “They plan this, It's meticulous. It's meticulous. These guys are experts at this. It's not just a few guys in a back room. You're talking about hundreds of statisticians and engineers, and they work it, you know, for a year to plan and mathematicians and hackers.”  “We had a map out of Colorado when we were talking to our engineers, the guys that designed it, that stole the elections.  — We just go to every one place where Trump wins 70-30 and — Shaved it off.   We shave in every other place. We don't go near a Democratic place, because when they wanna do recounts, they're gonna go to the Democratic places. They don't realize we shaved in every other committee. We know every other county.   We know how to do this. And then in each of those things where they shave, they shave with a different technique in each one of those. So if you found something in, in one county, there's no continuity around the state that way.   So this is why the Republicans are so much at fault, because they have the power and the ability to show in their areas they can allow access to the machines, they can allow access to the source code”  People need to go to prison. Democrats are stealing elections nationwide in every county, in every state of America"

Meme - Democracy Docket: "House Republicans passed a blatantly unconstitutional bill to exclude noncitizens from being counted in the census, and limit apportionment to solely citizens. If enacted, the legislation would likely buy GOP-dominated states more congressional seats."
Colby Wellman: "So this post is basically admitting that the Democrats rely on non citizens to gain them more seats. That's should not be the case for either party."
Even if illegal immigrants don't vote, this is another reason Democrats love illegal immigration

memetic_sisyphus on X - "This is one of my favorite left wing causes. Their argument, and current law, is that racial groups are voting blocks. The districts must be drawn to reflect the racial voting blocks, and redistricting that is not explicitly based on race is illegitimate and illegal. The implications of this belief are simply not discussed."

Greg Price on X - "Justice Jackson just compared black people not being able to create majority black congressional districts to disabled people not being able to enter a building before the ADA. "They don't have equal access to the voting system. They're disabled.""

Greg Price on X - "NAACP lawyer argues at SCOTUS that it's necessary to create race-based congressional districts because "white Democrats were not voting for black candidates whether they were Democrats or not.""

Threads - "BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled to allow Texas to proceed with using a racially discriminatory voting map.Voters of color deserve to be heard – not silenced."
Weird how they never complain when Democrats draw up their districts

Blake Neff on X - "If you need to grasp why civil rights law is such a disaster, this is a good start: California changing its House maps to elect Democrats will be fine, because it just targets Republicans, while Texas's new House map is getting thrown out, because it's "racist." Repeat this reasoning, thousands of times, in courts all over the country. Turns out, the Constitution just mandates left-wing victories on everything. Who knew!"
Auron MacIntyre on X - "Civil rights law has become the new American Constitution and it's designed specifically to ensure the left wins in every domain From corporate hiring, to law enforcement, to education, to elections Until it's gone the Democrats have a permanent advantage"
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "What many people don't realize is that Democrats are already granted at least 8-10 free Congressional seats in overwhelmingly Republican states because of the Civil Rights regime. The game has been rigged in their favor for decades and we pretend like this is neutral. Without those free Congressional districts, the Democratic Party would have to pivot hard to the Right in order to be competitive in Congressional elections.  For example, you could give Democrats every single tossup district in the country right now, and they'd still lose the House if the VRA were struck down + Indiana redistricts."

The SCIF on X - "Forensic experts reveal nonelection personnel were REMOTELY accessing DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS during the 2020 election.  Another testimony revealed 100% of the batches of stacked ballots were ALL for Joe Biden which is statistically impossible.  An expert testifies under oath that systems in Gwinnett County, GA, Colorado, Michigan, and other swing states were remotely accessed from Belgrade, Serbia during the Nov. 3, 2020 election.  Translated Dominion emails confirm Serbian nationals' involvement.  Another court testimony election worked testified under oath that she knew something was extremely wrong during the 2020 election.  She felt sicker and sicker every time she got a new stack of ballots because each stack of ballots were 100% ALL for Joe Biden which is statistically impossible.  This collaborates with other witness testimonies of fake ballots being delivered in multiple states where the same EXACT anomaly was taking place where all of the stacks of ballots were turning out to be ALL 100% for Joe Biden.  We're not talking 5, 10, 30, 50, or 100 in a row. We're talking thousands and even tens of thousands of ballots in a row, ALL for Joe Biden.  One case revealed over 100,000+ ballots in a row, ALL for Joe Biden. This is what you call fraud from fake ballots.  There is so much evidence that was never even looked at yet by a court of law. The time is coming, we're just getting positioned before the trigger is pulled.  The 2020 election was stolen. Period."

ThePersistence on X - "Minnesota Voter Fraud. Did you know that a registered voter in MN can vouch for up to 👉EIGHT👈 other voters in their precinct? No ID required. No proof of residency. 1 voter can vouch for 8 others. Yes, this is the law & it’s directly on the MN SOS website"

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 A Fulton election official testified UNDER OATH that she saw 100% percent of military absentee ballots go to Joe Biden (D) in 2020 Fulton has now admitted hundreds of THOUSANDS of ballots were illegally counted The conspiracy theorists are right again"

Brianna Lyman on X - "Massive scandal: Fulton County admits they "violated" the rules in 2020 when they certified ≈315K early votes that lacked poll workers' signatures "We don't dispute the allegation." The SOS also found FC "violated Official Election... Processes""

CannCon on X - "The "double and triple scanned ballots" from the 2020 handcount in Fulton were not just "accidentally" rescanned batches of ballots. They deliberately took chunks of ballots from different batches, mixed them together, and then scanned them on different tabulators to create "new batches" that would be difficult to unravel.  You don't get more deliberate than that.  #Intent"

John Basham on X - "BREAKING: A Panicked Fulton County Georgia & Democrat Party Have Filed An Emergency Motion Asking A Federal Judge To STOP THE @FBI & @TheJusticeDept FROM REVIEWING ANY BALLOTS OR ELECTION MATERIALS SEIZED FROM THE COUNTY UNDER A SEARCH WARRANT BACKED RAID!"

Paola Poot on X - "💥 Were 315,000 Fulton votes illegally certified? No. ❌
315,000 is the total number of early in-person votes cast in Fulton County in 2020.  David Cross (@GAballots ) recently mentioned his 2022 complaint at a SEB meeting about administrative documentation procedures in the first machine count.   But not Georgia law was violated; there is no Georgia statute requiring poll closing tapes to be “witnessed and sworn to.”  David Cross did NOT allege that the ballots themselves were unverified, illegal or fraudulent.  After the full hand tally, Trump requested a machine recount. All 5M paper ballots were scanned again. The results for President were re-certified based on this recount in December 2020.  There is NO complaint about unsigned tabulator tapes for the recount.  This drama is about which scanner printed closing paperwork, not ballot validity. These were legal votes by registered Georgia voters."

Downtown businesses estimate $4.5 million in losses due to crime, says survey - "Businesses in the downtown core reported more than $4.5 million of losses this year due to crime and street disorder in a survey put together by Downtown Prince George and the Prince George Chamber of Commerce...   Their concerns included frequent break-ins, theft, property damage, graffiti, arson, staff feeling unsafe, verbal abuse, threats, open drug use, discarded needles, human waste near business entrances, frustration over limited enforcement of bylaw and lack of support from the city, declining foot traffic due to customers avoiding downtown, financial strain from property damage, rising costs and an ongoing fear of fires like the one that destroyed CrossRoads Brewing and Distillery back in September.   Common expenses incurred by businesses include repairs due to property damage, graffiti removal, private security and clean-up of both human waste and needles...   They called for better accountability for repeat offenders, more police, bylaw and security patrols — especially after hours — consistent enforcement of drug use, loitering and vandalism laws, regular removal of encampments, garbage, needles and debris, the relocation of social services away from the downtown core, long-term housing, mental health and addiction supports, a balance between compassion and safety when tacking street disorder and crime, more communication and better transparency from city hall and better security infrastructure in the city."
How heartless. Don't they know that they need more Empathy? Then when costs rise or when businesses leave, it'll be time to blame Capitalism

DC_Draino on X - "HUGE! Almost every 2020 election fraud lawsuit was dismissed by corrupt courts b/c the plaintiffs lacked “standing”.   None of the evidence was able to even be introduced.   Now SCOTUS has ruled that candidates have standing to sue for election fraud.   The Democrat scam machine is crumbling."

🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 on X - "This is: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard DROPS ANOTHER 🔥🔥 BOMB: “I’ve got a long list of things that we are investigating. We have the best of the best going after this, election integrity being one of them.”  — There is now evidence that electronic voting machines have been tampered with to manipulate election outcomes in the United States — as we witnessed the overthrow of the U.S. government on November 3, 2020.  @DNIGabbard  “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections."  REPORT: DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE.   DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000 PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN.   941,000 TRUMP VOTES DELETED.  STATES USING DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS SWITCHED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN.  📝 19.958 VOTES FOR TRUMP SWITCHED TO  BIDEN. Live in CNN👇👇"

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