@erininthemorn yeah... basically #Gerrymandering and #REDMAP in action as well as #facists not being yeeted out of office by the people!

@astrid I guess mostly the latter one...

As we cound see with #REDMAP and the rapid onset of facism withing the Republicans, including the push for climate change denial [whereas it was previously acknowledged] is solely based off big donors like the #KochBrothers.

Important info and resource for any #USAmericans opposed to #Republican #gerrymandering, copied verbatim [except square bracket clarifications and hashtags] from Cory Doctorow on tumblr ( https://www.tumblr.com/mostlysignssomeportents/190105888450/the-estranged-anarchist-daughter-of-the-republican )

* The estranged #anarchist daughter of the Republican gerrymandering mastermind inherited and dumped all his files

Thomas #Hofeller was the mastermind behind #REDMAP, the [tool] used by Republican dirty-tricksters to redraw state electoral maps after the 2010 census in order to deliver state and federal legislative seats to Republicans even when the majority of people voted Democrats.

Hofeller was a secretive sociopath and had long been estranged from his daughter, Stephanie, a self-described anarchist who only discovered her father had died in 2018 when she read the obit pages of the New York Times. When Stephanie recovered her father's possessions from his home, she came into possession of files detailing the REDMAP plans, files of the sort that he had long exhorted his co-conspirators not to create or retain.

Stephanie turned some of her father's files over to the government watchdog Common Cause for use in a lawsuit over North Carolina's redistricting; thanks to the frank admission of racially motivated voter suppression in Thomas's files, the court found that NC's redistricting was illegal.

Now, Stephanie has licensed all her father's files under an unspecified Creative Commons license [ http://www.thehofellerfiles.com/ ] and dumped them on Google Drive [ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pw3lc2QPJ-eEeHszCdcfjbe3uZC1DbKz ] for anyone to use, exhorting others to "download and distribute this material, at will. It’s yours (be nice)."

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/06/gops-worst-nightmare.html

The right has always had hooks in state legislatures, but they really opened up the sluice gates in the runup to the 2010 census, when a GOP strategist called #ThomasHofeller started pitching Republican operatives on a plan called #REDMAP, to capture state legislatures in time for a post-2010 #census mass-#redistricting.

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remember #REDMAP? #gerrymandering

what are some of your favorite writings on the subject?

also, at the risk of bothsidesism... what is the ethical way to campaign as a group to make sure election boundaries are fair? like, as long as it's public? what's the rule?

(that also applies to my notes on collusion/cartels vs collective action... which I guess is related to group size and individual power, e.g. 4 corporations behind closed doors vs 12 employees?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP