On Saturday, the Texas state Senate passed a new congressional redistricting plan that will likely give the Republican party five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
It would be a small but crucial addition to the party’s razor-thin majority of just five seats in the lower chamber.
But it’s not the only move Republicans are making right now to try and rig next year’s midterm elections in their favor.
With Trump’s approval sinking and the party out of step with most Americans on nearly every major issue, Republicans are clinging to power by any means necessary.
And to do that, they’ve launched a four-pronged attack on democracy aimed at keeping themselves in power—no matter what the people actually want.
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