We Will Not Be Drawn Out: The Fight for Fair Maps in Tarrant County, Texas
By Commissioner Roderick Miles, Jr.
June 4, 2025
In Fort Worth’s historic Lake Como neighborhood, a wall once stood. Not a metaphor, but a literal wall, built to divide Black families from the rest of the city. Today, that wall is gone, but its legacy lives on. It is now reinforced not by concrete, but by the lines of a conservative gerrymander that threatens to once again isolate and disenfranchise a community.
Tarrant County, Texas, is one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States. It is diverse, dynamic, and increasingly reflective of our nation’s future. Yet the response from those in power has not been to embrace this change but to resist it. The conservatives who run the county are redrawing maps not in the spirit of fairness but in the pursuit of control. What is happening in Tarrant County is not just a local issue. It is a warning to the nation.
This spring, the Republican majority on the Commissioners Court launched a surprise, mid-......
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..... Tinderholt expressed his support for the redistricting during a public hearing last month, saying the map needs to be changed to reflect Republican voting power after President Donald Trump won Tarrant County in 2024 with 52% of the vote. [52% is no landslide, and only happened because of the blood red outer suburbs Tinderbox is an extremist, worse than ohair, maybe]
“I think it’s important for the county to be represented,” Tinderholt said at the meeting. “Trump won this county, and he won it overwhelmingly, and I think that the county should be represented that way.”
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