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From: S. maltophilia	8/18/2025 5:04:36 PM
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Everyone Is Looking At This Map Situation Wrong It’s not gerrymandering that’s beating us. It’s turnout. Early in 2024, I was speaking with this young person about Texas. He had moved here not too long before that and had previously worked for Senator Ed Markey in Massachusetts, and he said it to me in such a matter-of-fact way, “Oh yeah, I don’t see Texas turning blue this year.” It was one of the millions of times that I’ve had to have “that conversation.” You know, the one that always ends with this pie. ?? As the nation has embraced the “gerrymandering conversation” over the last few weeks, I’ve listened in and I’ve read the comments. And the sentiment all too often has been, “Well, Democrats can’t win because of gerrymandering.” And admittedly, gerrymandering makes it awfully hard to win and has kept Republicans in power, but it’s now set up Republicans to shoot themselves in the foot...... lonestarleft.com

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