Lizzie Fletcher: Texas Redistricting is an Attack on Voters and Racial Gerrymandering

Opposition to Texas Redistricting

• 📌 Representative Lizzie Fletcher, chair of the Texas Democratic delegation, condemns the GOP-led effort to redistrict Texas.
• 🎯 She states that Governor Abbott and Texas Republicans have succumbed to pressure from Donald Trump and Washington DC operatives to redraw maps.
• 🎯 The goal of this redistricting is to add five new GOP seats.

Accusations of Racial Gerrymandering

• ⚖️ Fletcher asserts that in Texas, Republican partisan gerrymandering is racial gerrymandering and is illegal.
• ⚖️ She explains that partisanship is used as a proxy for race to systematically pack and crack districts in minority communities.
• ⚖️ This tactic aims to diminish and limit the voting power and strength of minority voters.

Impact on Minority Voting Power

• 🗳️ Fletcher highlights that all but one of the 13 congressional districts currently held by Democrats in Texas have a majority minority population.
• 🗳️ In these 13 districts, minority voters elect their candidate of choice.
• 🗳️ Dismantling any of these districts would inevitably dilute the voting strength of minority communities.

Fundamental Democratic Principles

• 🏛️ Fletcher emphasizes that this redistricting effort is an attack on the people, voters, and citizens of Texas, not just specific districts or members of Congress.
• 🏛️ She states that all citizens, not just the privileged, have the right and ability to have a say in their democracy.
• 🏛️ The Anti-rigging Act, introduced by Mark VC, aims to ban this type of mid-decade redistricting.

Commitment to Fighting Redistricting

• ✊ Fletcher declares that they will not stand by and allow this to happen.
• ✊ The Texas Democratic delegation, with support from friends in Congress and others, is fighting this redistricting effort in every possible way.