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Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage
Democracy Now • Dec 5, 2025

Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage

The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discriminatory. The 6-3 ruling is another political win for President Donald Trump and his allies, who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts. Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps in order to preserve the narrow GOP majority in Congress when voters head to the polls in November 2026. The Texas effort could flip as many as five seats for the party. Ari Berman, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones magazine, calls it a “catastrophic ruling” that further normalizes extreme partisan gerrymandering. “This whole exercise made a complete mockery of democracy.”

Your Private Data Is Building Trump’s Voter Purge Machine
Mother Jones • Dec 5, 2025

Your Private Data Is Building Trump’s Voter Purge Machine

It was National Voter Registration Day, and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was on her way to a small liberal arts college for a voter registration event. That’s when she learned the US Department of Justice was suing her over how she manages Maine’s voter registrant list. While the DOJ appearing as the official […]

Donald Trump’s Restitution Scheme Is Among the Greatest Heists in US History
Mother Jones • Dec 5, 2025

Donald Trump’s Restitution Scheme Is Among the Greatest Heists in US History

This story was originally published by The Watch, Radley Balko’s substack publication, to which you can subscribe here. In the 15 years from 2010 through 2024, 375 people in Texas were exonerated after being imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. Of those, 97 received some form of compensation or settlement from the state. Collectively, those 97 people spent more […]

🚗 The Week the Wheels Came Off MAGA
Zeteo • Dec 5, 2025

🚗 The Week the Wheels Came Off MAGA

Donald Trump’s political coalition is collapsing faster than most thought possible, Americans sour on AI slop, and JD Vance is sliding into DMs after midnight?

Trump Pardons Democrat Indicted For Bribery
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The Majority Report • Dec 5, 2025

Trump Pardons Democrat Indicted For Bribery

Washington’s Gallery of Puppets
Current Affairs • Dec 5, 2025

Washington’s Gallery of Puppets

In Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1987 film The Last Emperor, there is a moment where the title character has a chance to return to power. After being banished from his palace for over a decade, Pu Yi, the child emperor of China, is offered a resurrected throne, complete with a dazzling court and an army to back him.

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