For decades NM had its State Supreme Court handle the redistricting. This last time around our Moronic Little Governor had a commission appointed by her to handle redistricting. They received around 30 redistricting plans. They sent MLG 3 maps to choose from. She went with a map 2 state house democrats put together that was never submitted to the commission.

Dems gerrymandered NM beyond recognition—Now crying about TX maps

Quote:As the national redistricting battle escalates, New Mexico has emerged as one of the most glaring examples of partisan gerrymandering—drawing renewed attention to the state’s congressional maps crafted by Democrats during the last redistricting cycle. While Texas Republicans face criticism for efforts to redraw maps in their favor ahead of the 2026 elections, what’s being ignored by many in the media is that Democrats in states like New Mexico and Illinois have already executed aggressive power grabs of their own.

In 2021, New Mexico Democrats used their legislative majority to redraw the state’s congressional districts in a way that dramatically altered political representation. The new map carved up conservative-leaning areas and created districts sprawling across vast and unrelated parts of the state, allowing Democrats to gain control of all three of New Mexico’s congressional seats. The most extreme example is the Third Congressional District, which now stretches from the southeastern city of Hobbs to the Four Corners region in the northwest—a drive that takes over eight hours and 35 minutes. The district covers radically different economic and cultural regions, making coherent representation nearly impossible. Communities of interest were fractured, and rural voices were diluted, all to ensure a Democrat stronghold.

This approach mirrors what far-left Democrats in Illinois did when they designed a map that created a 14-3 advantage in the state’s congressional delegation. In both states, political expediency—not fair representation—was the guiding principle. While Democrats in New Mexico loudly decry gerrymandering elsewhere, they executed the same strategy they now condemn.

The New Mexico map is also under scrutiny for its reliance on racial considerations in the line-drawing process. The Supreme Court recently announced it will rehear a case out of Louisiana that challenges the constitutionality of creating majority-minority districts using race as the primary factor. That decision could directly impact states like New Mexico, where race-based gerrymandering may be subject to strict judicial review.

Meanwhile, Democrats in Texas are traveling the country to sound the alarm about what they call Republican efforts to suppress minority votes through redistricting. A group of Texas House Democrats recently met with New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in Santa Fe to rally support for their cause. Texas Rep. Joe Moody claimed, “Right now in Texas, there is a political power grab coming from Washington, D.C., coming from the Trump White House to dismantle districts, to racially gerrymander districts, disenfranchising brown and Black Texans.”

Moody and his colleagues warned that redistricting battles in Texas are not isolated incidents, and that they could set a precedent for other states. Yet there was no mention of the fact that Democrats in New Mexico already redrew maps that broke up conservative and rural communities while artificially stacking others to secure safe Democrat seats.

While media and Democrat leaders label Republican-led redistricting efforts as “assaults on democracy,” they have remained largely silent on similar, and in nearly all cases worse, gerrymandering moves by their own party. Republicans in Texas are now doing exactly what Democrats in New Mexico have already done: redrawing maps with unashamed political motivation. The only difference is who’s holding the pen.

Dallas/Tarrant and Harris County are nuts. 18 and 29 in Houston have been that way for years and at various levels to create Black and Democratic/relatively Hispanic districts. But I don't know what is going on with 7 and 38. 7 was Republican since the 60s until John Culberson blew it in 2018. Maybe they are drawing a white Democrat district. 9 is Black and fairly compact. All of Dallas and Tarrant County are a mess. Districts 4 and 5 in the DFW metro and east are pretty crazy too.

There was never a more partisan gerrymander than the one the Democrats did in Texas in 1990 to try to hold onto power. They lost all the statewide offices in the 90s and in 2002 finally lost the legislature. It quickly became almost 2/3 Republican before demographics made it a little closer. The Democrats resisted reasonable redistricting in 2000 and a court drew a minor revision to the 1990 map. Finally Republicans did a legislative map in 2002.

(08-04-2025 12:58 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  For decades NM had its State Supreme Court handle the redistricting. This last time around our Moronic Little Governor had a commission appointed by her to handle redistricting. They received around 30 redistricting plans. They sent MLG 3 maps to choose from. She went with a map 2 state house democrats put together that was never submitted to the commission.

Dems gerrymandered NM beyond recognition—Now crying about TX maps

Quote:As the national redistricting battle escalates, New Mexico has emerged as one of the most glaring examples of partisan gerrymandering—drawing renewed attention to the state’s congressional maps crafted by Democrats during the last redistricting cycle. While Texas Republicans face criticism for efforts to redraw maps in their favor ahead of the 2026 elections, what’s being ignored by many in the media is that Democrats in states like New Mexico and Illinois have already executed aggressive power grabs of their own.

In 2021, New Mexico Democrats used their legislative majority to redraw the state’s congressional districts in a way that dramatically altered political representation. The new map carved up conservative-leaning areas and created districts sprawling across vast and unrelated parts of the state, allowing Democrats to gain control of all three of New Mexico’s congressional seats. The most extreme example is the Third Congressional District, which now stretches from the southeastern city of Hobbs to the Four Corners region in the northwest—a drive that takes over eight hours and 35 minutes. The district covers radically different economic and cultural regions, making coherent representation nearly impossible. Communities of interest were fractured, and rural voices were diluted, all to ensure a Democrat stronghold.

This approach mirrors what far-left Democrats in Illinois did when they designed a map that created a 14-3 advantage in the state’s congressional delegation. In both states, political expediency—not fair representation—was the guiding principle. While Democrats in New Mexico loudly decry gerrymandering elsewhere, they executed the same strategy they now condemn.

The New Mexico map is also under scrutiny for its reliance on racial considerations in the line-drawing process. The Supreme Court recently announced it will rehear a case out of Louisiana that challenges the constitutionality of creating majority-minority districts using race as the primary factor. That decision could directly impact states like New Mexico, where race-based gerrymandering may be subject to strict judicial review.

Meanwhile, Democrats in Texas are traveling the country to sound the alarm about what they call Republican efforts to suppress minority votes through redistricting. A group of Texas House Democrats recently met with New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in Santa Fe to rally support for their cause. Texas Rep. Joe Moody claimed, “Right now in Texas, there is a political power grab coming from Washington, D.C., coming from the Trump White House to dismantle districts, to racially gerrymander districts, disenfranchising brown and Black Texans.”

Moody and his colleagues warned that redistricting battles in Texas are not isolated incidents, and that they could set a precedent for other states. Yet there was no mention of the fact that Democrats in New Mexico already redrew maps that broke up conservative and rural communities while artificially stacking others to secure safe Democrat seats.

While media and Democrat leaders label Republican-led redistricting efforts as “assaults on democracy,” they have remained largely silent on similar, and in nearly all cases worse, gerrymandering moves by their own party. Republicans in Texas are now doing exactly what Democrats in New Mexico have already done: redrawing maps with unashamed political motivation. The only difference is who’s holding the pen.

Nice article, Crimson. Very informative.

It just goes to show that old adage the left lives by. Anything the left does is okay until the right does the same thing, even when we're complying with a SCOTUS ruling. Oh, well. The left is filled with hypocrites, and luckily, America is waking up to their hypocrisy.

NY - 42% GOP vote share, 27% of the seats
CA - 40% GOP vote share, 17% of the seats

Illinois, New Mexico, Maryland are other great examples of Dem gerrymandering

Hollier than thou crap from Dems is old

(08-04-2025 12:41 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  What a vile disgusting evil witch Hochul is.

They/Them are an old trannie.

28 mins left and not a word ... interesting...

Dems still do not realize the old days of avoiding facing consequences for their actions will not return while Republicans with backbone are in office. What will it take ?

Meanwhile in the People's Republic

California is such a dump

like dealing with a spoiled brat whiny child, this spanking of Democrats lawbreakers needs to be swift and painful to discourage the disordered behavior...

Quote:Julio Rosas@Julio_Rosas11

Motion passes in TX House to issue arrest warrants for Democrats who fled out of state.

{VIDEO}

4:14 PM · Aug 4, 2025

(08-04-2025 04:24 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  like dealing with a spoiled brat whiny child, this spanking of Democrats lawbreakers needs to be swift and painful to discourage the disordered behavior...

Quote:Julio Rosas@Julio_Rosas11

Motion passes in TX House to issue arrest warrants for Democrats who fled out of state.

{VIDEO}

4:14 PM · Aug 4, 2025

We really need to get this long violent and bloody civil war over with.

Federal legislation may be necessary as this is becoming a routine issue of Democrats running to Chicago to avoid voting when they are in the minority

A great summary of the Democrat holier than thou mindset

Quote: Texas House Democrats abandoned their duty and are holding flood relief and property tax cuts hostage.

I ordered Texas DPS to arrest and return every derelict House Democrat to the Texas Capitol.

This order will remain in effect until all missing Democrats are accounted for. pic.twitter.com/A87u2JxYU7

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 4, 2025

Is it a federal crime to finance/aide/abet someone to commit a state crime?

Prog filth

(08-04-2025 05:17 PM)solohawks Wrote:  Is it a federal crime to finance/aide/abet someone to commit a state crime?

I think they are being charged with bribery. In that case if becomes federal if it crosses state lines. (ie someone out of Texas offers money to bribe someone in Texas. )