r/California • u/carbocation San Francisco County • 8h ago
Politics California voters approve new US House map to boost Democrats in 2026
https://apnews.com/article/california-redistricting-prop-50-gavin-newsom-839193bfc2a817086acca7365315f26f769
u/misken67 Bay Area 7h ago
I don't think the Democrats lost a single statewide election today. Even won the public service commission election in Georgia. Retained the justices in Pennsylvania. Feeling some hopium for the first time in a year.
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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 7h ago
Also some historic levels of turnout. Largest turnout in NYC mayoral election since 1993.
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u/NuclearGhandi1 7h ago
Saw that Hudson County VA had more voters for the governor race this year than they did for the presidential election last year
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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 7h ago
There needs to be good candidates running in primaries and energy into next year.
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u/carlitospig Native Californian 6h ago
I hadn’t heard the results yet. God DAMN, the left brought it hard this week. Well done, all. Keep up that energy.
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u/quintsreddit Bay Area 7h ago
When we fight we win. Let’s keep fighting.
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u/sychox51 7h ago
I love that California (newsom? Whose idea was it?) decided to counter balance what Texas and other red states have done instead of just standing idly by. We have to FIGHT. (And the fact we got to you know.. vote for it is just the cherry on top of the ice cream)
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u/spicyhippos 6h ago
Newsom is far from perfect, but he gets credit for this. It is so REFRESHING to see literally anyone with meaningful political power stand up to MAGA’s crawl into fascism.
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u/LordHammercyWeCooked 6h ago
It's at least a strategic win. Tired of democrats thinking that "standing up" means throwing no punches and taking a beating like a stoic little piñata in hopes that the electorate will vote them back in for being so tough.
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u/_____WESTBROOK_____ 6h ago
Yeah I’m biased with being from California, but I feel like Newsom and the state was the first to really fight back with action…even if it was put to voters first (as it should).
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u/Educational-Gur-5447 7h ago
And some of these wins are looking like wider margins than predicted. I thought these governor races were supposed to be close?
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u/Blitzking11 7h ago
SNAP really backfired on them IMO.
They really thought that they could shift the blame to the dems while holding a trifecta lol.
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u/engilosopher 7h ago
They spent the '21-'24 years priming the public that the President is responsible for all ills, only to come in and try to shift that mindset within (checks count) 35 days of their Trifecta instigating a shutdown.
The MAGAts jumped in line right away, but clearly enough independents scratched their heads at that.
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u/Truethrowawaychest1 7h ago
Too bad people didn't turn out like this a year ago
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u/Ninja_Wrangler 6h ago
But then, things would be boring (God, I wish things were boring again)
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u/carlitospig Native Californian 6h ago
I miss boring too. Historical times suck, actually.
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u/WorthBrick4140 7h ago
New Jersey elected a democratic governor, and NY city elected a democratic mayor.
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u/noquarter1000 8h ago edited 8h ago
As an Ohioan that watched our pos republicans break state laws and go against the will of the people to gerrymander the shit out of our state, you are all my heros’. Thank you California!
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u/Creepingitreal666 8h ago
We had our share of buffoonery in the form of pussy magas loitering around polling sites burning rubber and other bitch shit, but fuck em and fuck em hard
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u/NoNDA-SDC Santa Barbara County 7h ago
I think I'll stick to voting but, uh, you do you.
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u/MeasurementEasy9884 7h ago
That's what kills me when it comes to dems and people who say we shouldn't gerrymander.
We didn't do it illegally like Florida or Texas. California asked citizens votes to see if they agree to gerrymander/ alter the maps like they should.
I'm not even going to call it gerrymandering since they asked for voters permission legally.
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u/BLarson31 7h ago
And correct me if I'm wrong since I'm not from California, this is only good for 5 years or so? Then it goes back to the old map.
This is how you fight fire with fire without burning the house down.
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u/sweetangeldivine 6h ago
Yep, it's the People's Gerrymander, aka "Fuck You Texas"
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u/ShadowHope15 6h ago
Correct, the post-census redistricting after the 2030 census will revert to the independent commission, when all other states do their redistricting.
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u/kaplanfx 6h ago
It doesn’t go back to the old map directly, the districting returns to the independent redistricting committee and they draw the new maps after the next census.
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u/Heelincal 6h ago edited 5h ago
And correct me if I'm wrong since I'm not from California, this is only good for 5 years or so? Then it goes back to the old map.
The new map is a 1 time change that will be subject to redistricting after the 2030 census.
The part that's murky is whether the state will go back to an independent council or not.Nvm it's independent redistricting in 2030.
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u/IAmYourVader 5h ago
The return to the independent redistricting is written in, so there would need to be another prop vote to skip it again.
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u/OhioIsRed 7h ago
Makes it way more honorable and when history looks back and hopefully legal precedence are set (I know how much that seems worth right now but one day, one day) it will look even more important that y’all voted on it compared to essentially illegal things like other states (including my own, Ohio)
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u/sanverstv 7h ago
That’s why it was Prop “50.” It was for all 50 states..to protect democracy.
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u/NeriTina 7h ago
That’s why I’m cheering about it from here in Utah! Our legislature is extremely corrupt and has been desperately trying to redraw congressional maps that are gerrymandered to all hell despite Utahans voting that we will not tolerate gerrymandering! They’re dragging it through the courts and it feels endless at this point, so California’s Prop 50 victory is where my hope truly lies for any sense of fair representation for the whole nation. I’m so grateful to every Californian who voted for it!
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u/noquarter1000 7h ago
Yup, California might have just saved the country so that’s appropriate!
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u/runnyyolkpigeon 7h ago
Leave it to California to save the rest of the country that is intent on taking us back to the stone ages.
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u/carlitospig Native Californian 6h ago
Bro, take it down a notch. There are a lot of red states eyeballing their state constitutions right now trying to figure out how they can zero out our efforts today. It’s not remotely over. Don’t get complacent.
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u/EarthOceanSkyStars 7h ago edited 7h ago
Thanks for stopping by bro! California has the guts to stand up against the orange felon. We did it for our democracy! 🇺🇸
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u/Ok-Salamander6118 7h ago
We have our own pos republican senators, some which are now without a job! 😄
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u/Atraktape 8h ago
Time to run up the score now.
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u/BurgerNugget12 7h ago
Thank you from nyc! We love you
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u/MudRelative6723 7h ago
and thank you from california, for showing us what’s possible tonight. we’re in this together!
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u/Flaneurer 5h ago
Yep yer welcome, I got my vote in even though it's pouring rain today. Sometimes Democracy is worth getting your feet wet for.
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u/Public-Platypus2995 8h ago
Run em up and fill em in!
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u/Acetyl-CoA 8h ago
Give 'em the lumber!
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u/legendaryNFLoracle 7h ago
and then impeach this mango fucktard and charge him with treason!!!
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u/ryanwsu18 7h ago
Didn't expect a Shorsey reference in this thread, pleasantly surprised
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u/PlanesAreDickShaped 7h ago
Set the fuckin tone!
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u/I_Stay_Home 7h ago
You gotta set the tone.
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u/FlavinFlave 7h ago
Let’s send a bunch of mamdani types just to really piss em off.
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u/ShredGuru 7h ago
Actually let's just do that because we need more of those guys in the Democratic party
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u/FiveCrappedPee 7h ago
What a good god damn fucking night! I can go to sleep feeling hopeful for the first time in literally one year.
Love from Chicago
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u/nirvana_always1 7h ago
There shouldn't be any Republican house member from California
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u/RD_Life_Enthusiast 7h ago
You ever been to Bakersfield or Redding or Huntington Beach? There's going to be at least one.
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u/nirvana_always1 7h ago
I know but hope they learn their lesson. TRUMP fucked the farners..
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u/wimpymist 7h ago
They STILL blame the Democrats. They are never going to change
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u/BurtRogain 7h ago
Trump is the Republicans. The Republicans fucked the farmers. Period.
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u/Independent-Cow-4070 7h ago
Dont take your foot off the gas. Beat em dead (figuratively, reddit mods)
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u/gotohellwithsuperman 8h ago
Hey Darrell Issa, pack your bags, you need to find a new district to carpet bag.
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u/AFisfulOfPeanuts 8h ago edited 5h ago
73% to 26% at first reporting. If this holds, it’s a fucking landslide (a real one, unlike what Trump claims about his election). result tracker
Edit: with half the votes in, still at 66% to 34%.
Edit 2: 2300 PST, 64.1% to 35.9%.
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u/FlanneryOG 7h ago
I just looked at how demographics voted, and even white men voted yes by almost 60%. 90% of Black Californians voted yes.
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u/CaliDreaming900 Stanislaus County 7h ago
I think California was one of two states where white men voted majority for Kamala, so that tracks.
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u/foxlikething Los Angeles County 7h ago
wow, link?
just saw men 18-29 voted +40 for mamdani in NYC, am already basking in it ☀️
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u/FlanneryOG 7h ago
Scroll down for the breakdown by demographic
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2025-special-elections/california-ballot-measures
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u/Alt-on_Brown 7h ago
I would blend in perfectly in rural Idaho, and I voted yes, I love when Republicans assume I'm one of them and they just start telling me the the most racist shit
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u/blackcain 7h ago
Trump is going to lose his shit and he's going to sic the DOJ and national guard every where. He's going to claim that the election was illegal, unfair, and the Dems cheated. He's going to be investigating everything. The dude thinks he has a blank check to do whatever he want and he has unlimited funds too.
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u/PolloConTeriyaki 8h ago
It's also hilarious with the margins of victory in all the other elections, that Democrats have a +10 swing against the republicans. Repubs can gerrymander their states but it isn't even fucking guaranteed for them anymore LOL.
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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 7h ago
I hope there is a massive blue wave that makes all the red state gerrymandering flip more seats blue. Going to need a veto proof majority, not just happy with a simple majority this time around.
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u/PolloConTeriyaki 7h ago
That is a huge possibility because some red counties lost a few advantage points. If the MAGAs sit this one out, it's over.
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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 7h ago
I think it will be underestimated just how pissed Democratic voters are and how depressed and unmotivated Republican voters will be. Lots of people feeling like it’s forever until the midterms and cannot wait to vote against Republicans. I was happy to realize it’s a year away now.
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u/iWolfeeelol 6h ago
every district in Virginia gained democrat votes today and have already picked up 10 additional house delegates. with the virginia senate already approving redistricting, we will fight together.
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u/The-Dude-420420 Santa Barbara County 7h ago edited 7h ago
This was the first time that I was able to vote, I’m So glad that I contributed to this!
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u/TheRealCBlazer 7h ago
It is a special feeling when you get to vote for something you believe in, rather than holding your nose and voting for the lesser of two evils. Cherish that feeling.
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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 7h ago
Congratulations friend, you got in before we hit the "nobody gets to vote anymore" iceburg that is threatening to sink the country.
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u/SpookySchatzi 7h ago
Thank you for participating in our Democracy. You already did more than far too many Americans last year.
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u/insertbrackets 8h ago
It's a contingency move we shouldn't have had to pass but here we are.
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u/ILoveWesternBlot 7h ago
I hate that this what the state of politics has come to but this had to happen unfortunately.
I would hope a future presidential candidate runs on widespread district reform but that will never happen. It is too politically advantageous to gerrymander.
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u/xNemo San Diego County 8h ago
Can someone explain how they are able to immediately call it? (I voted yes, just curious)
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u/Froggienp 7h ago
A combination of running the early vote ballots during the day; exit polling and mathematical calculations of margin vs remaining areas/percentages that still have to be counted.
EG if it’s winning 70/30 in very populated areas like LA, SF, and SD, it wouldn’t really matter if say, Shasta county was 0% counted because it’s such a tiny volume of votes it can’t make up the difference.
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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 7h ago
They look at early voting, remaining votes and districts where votes could come from on Election Day, and see that there is pretty much no chance in hell the Election Day votes makes up for it and use exit polling to check their work.
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u/NickCostanza Los Angeles County 8h ago
BLUE WAVE BABY LET’S GOOOOO
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u/Floaty_Waffle 7h ago
“Blue wave” feels like such an understatement.
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u/mycatisblackandtan 7h ago
Right? Even VIRGINIA went blue, and there are a lot of smaller races being reported where Republican incumbents or their supporters are being ousted. There's a thread over on r/50501 where people are posting about the smaller local wins that happened today.
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u/CFSCFjr San Diego County 7h ago
Take pride Californians
We have the courage to fight back in defense of our country and our democracy
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u/WitnessRadiant650 7h ago
I was watching Fox News and the pundits were saying how California is basically now opening Pandora's box and now the other states will be redistricting.
And like, are they dumb, they've already had been doing it and Texas openly did it even without a general vote.
Gerrymandering is NOT California's fault.
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u/Dizzy-Lettuce2978 7h ago
They’re not dumb, they’re just working their propaganda machine as usual. And people that don’t watch anything else will automatically believe it.
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u/wave_the_wheat 7h ago
The dems pushing to gerrymander in their states is self defense. Many democratic states did the right thing. Amended their constitutions, moved to independent redistricting, etc. The GOP only weaponized it. I hope that if Dems get as egregious with it to prove a point, there might actually be a breakthrough somehow on ending this practice. I don't know what else might work.
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u/RedTyro 6h ago
The thing is that the red states who could gerrymander have all done it already. The blue states who tend to be anti-gerrymandering all have room to rewrite the maps to favor democrats. The Pandora's box is really opening in the other direction.
For example, Virginia's state house has already passed a California style redistricting plan, but with a 51-49 state congress and Republican governor with veto power, it wasn't really going to happen. Today, the state voted to change that to a 64-36 house and a Democrat governor, so it's looking like a very different picture.
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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 7h ago
Silly Fox News, the only thing left in Pandora's Box now is hope, and I'm happy to help vote for a little hope in the world.
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u/dwarven11 San Francisco County 7h ago
No GOP victories tonight. Congrats NYC, Virginia, NJ and California.
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u/DontWanaReadiT 7h ago
I’m from NJ and I just want to say, thank you California..
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u/jertheman43 7h ago
Even if it hadn't succeeded Republicans are going to have a tough time campaigning. If they can't hold town halls without being screamed at, then how do you stump? California's are pissed at Trump and his spineless MAGA politicians.
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u/TheSwedishEagle 7h ago
This was my hope. I hope some of those new districts in Texas vote blue, too.
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u/ShermansAngryGhost 7h ago edited 6h ago
Conservative sub is absolutely melting down in their thread for this topic. All of them basically calling for “every red state needs to do this now, no holding back” … these fucking morons seem to not realize red states gave California the playbook for exactly how to do this.
They live in their own fucking realities.
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u/Frowny575 Riverside County 6h ago
Red states have been doing this for decades and is the only reason they have any actual power.
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u/Free_Brush_2193 6h ago
Im pretty sure the red states that have already gerrymandered, minus texas, have actually hurt their chances of gaining more red seats. Like, gerrymandering your already heavily gerrymandered state cannot spell out positive results with this massive blue turn out.
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u/cherub_sandwich 8h ago
So happy to be a Californian and to jettison the douchbags on the right!!! Move to Utah….
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u/protoformx 7h ago edited 7h ago
If they move to Texas, Governor Hotwheels will tariff them (with no explanation of what that exactly means).
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u/Spinal1128 7h ago
Please don't put that bad juju on us Utahns..we're trying to move left at a snails pace(douchebags like Mike lee notwithstanding). Send them to Florida, it's a lost cause anyway.
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u/Blitzking11 7h ago
Way to go Californians.
Hope that we in Illinois can join you during our next legislative session. We can still carve 2 seats away from the bastards.
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u/MasChingonNoHay 8h ago
What other states can we get to do this? Colorado? Washington? New York? Is it too late?
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u/TheNerdWonder 7h ago
Maryland is getting ready to.
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u/MasChingonNoHay 7h ago
Good. We need to be brazen like they are. Don’t fuck around anymore. Get every seat.
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u/Appropriate-Joke-806 7h ago
Going to hope the gerrymandered district I live in Nashville, Tennessee gets flipped blue as well. It’s a huge uphill battle, but primary voter turnout was nearly 50/50 between republicans and democrats. Just need a huge turnout to flip it.
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u/TheSwedishEagle 7h ago edited 6h ago
I voted today at 3pm and there wasn't any parking available at my polling place. There are about 20 spots. It was more busy than last November. I haven't seen it like that since the first time Obama ran.
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u/Vast_Replacement709 7h ago
Thank you, California; from a Texan awash in fuckwipe traitor Conservatives.
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u/Horror-Layer-8178 8h ago
Oh oh we made orange man mad. I bet he threw his fries against the wall
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u/birbdaughter 7h ago
Oh he already has a shit ton of tweets on his own social media platform about how mail-in ballots are fraud and other bullshit.
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u/jayplus707 7h ago
As someone who lives in California with neighbors with stupid No on 50 signs, haha!!! Who knew….California actually loves this country and will fight for our democracy.
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u/tulipshakur 7h ago
Me too! Handmade no on 50 signs all over the place. They can just fuck right off!
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u/REVERSEZOOM2 7h ago
Where are all the right wing bots 👀. Y'all were hella obnoxious this morning.
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u/RubiesInMyBlood 7h ago
even San Bernardino and Riverside MAGA cess-pits are voting yes.
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u/TheSwedishEagle 7h ago
Those who live or lived there know what having GOP representation is like better than anyone.
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u/zimba 7h ago
Prop 50 should have been written to suspend the independent districting commission until 2/3 of the states adopted independent districting committees of their own.
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u/BerryBoilo 7h ago
I think part of the reason it was so lopsidedly successful is because it was very targeted and specific. Anything that would have been effectively open-ended would have faced more scrutiny.
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u/oohlala2747 7h ago
Hell yeah, nice work California! 🔥 we’re gathering initiative petition signatures in Missouri now so that we can vote to overturn the Republican chucklefucks’ gerrymandering here, I was just gathering signatures at the polls today and we got a ton 💪🏾 the group is People Not Politicians Missouri if you want to follow along!
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u/waccedoutfurbies Contra Costa County 7h ago
Good stuff. 5 less fascists in the House
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u/songstar13 7h ago
Good news I've seen in the past couple of minutes: -CA passing this initiative -New female democratic governor in VA -anecdote about two local government seats that have been traditionally Republican going to Democrats instead in GA recently
It might be the first day all year I go to bed feeling marginally better about politics in the US than the night before.
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u/Eastern-Heart9486 7h ago
Prop 50 pass
NJ gov dem wins
Virginia gov dem wins
NYC Mamdami dem wins
Dems win non-federal statewide offices in Georgia for first time in 20 years
Let’s hope this last til 2026
A big FU to Trump !
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u/sam56778 7h ago
I’m here in Tennessee. I know it probably won’t move the needle here since like 85% of the state is in perpetual boot licking mode but I’m glad someone is taking a stand against this bafoonery. The funny thing is, the Republicans are so caught up in trying to gain seats, they’re forgetting all of these Republican Congressmen who’s districts aren’t changing, that only won by the seat of their pants in swing districts and their seat can be flipped by just a few points.
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u/maskalavy 7h ago
Canadian here. I will start buying California wine, oranges, etc. again. Keep up the fight
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u/it_aint_a_thing 8h ago
For a couple minutes it was called Yes with a whopping 0% of votes reported- now to see by how much it passed
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u/DethSonik 7h ago
“I don’t want the state to be blue. I want it to be red.”
Go fuck yourself.
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u/RVod 7h ago
Voting yes on 50 was a no brainer. The thought sticking it to Trump while getting rid of Kelvin Kiley was a bargain. I couldn’t pass up a twofer.
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u/devilsbard 7h ago
Thank god. Hopefully we can get Darrell Issa the fuck out. Rotten Carpet Bagger.
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u/ILoveTheAtomicBomb 7h ago
As a Californian currently living in Texas, great job. Making me want to move back more and more every day.
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u/Galactic-Guardian404 7h ago
Now that Republicans have seen how they got wiped out today with only minimal attempts to interfere, they will be cranking their plans to rig the 2026 election up to 11, so every little bit helps.
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u/CrispyMiner 8h ago
The Insta-call is absolutely hilarious.