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The Redistricting Arms Race - Civic Media Right now, across the country, a redistricting war is underway. It started last summer when the White House pressured Texas to redraw its congressional maps to lock in more Republican seats. North Carolina and Missouri followed. Democrats hit back — California approved new maps, Virginia started the same process. Six states have redrawn their maps […]

"[T]he Fair Representation Act... would replace single-member districts with #ProportionalRepresentation, making gerrymandering pointless. That's not a ceasefire. That's ending the war."

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#ProportionalRepresentation.

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#ProportionalRepresentation is the elegant solution that automatically gives fair representation to both those in the minority and those in the majority.

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Virginia referendum is latest front in national gerrymandering war - FairVote As the gerrymandering war rages on, Virginia will hold a referendum on whether to let the legislature to draw a new congressional map.

“The Virginia referendum comes amid a nationwide gerrymandering war between red and blue states – a war that could be solved with a shift to #ProportionalRepresentation.”

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Advancing proportional representation  | Sightline Institute Portland, Oregon, councilor (then Council President) Elana Pirtle-Guiney (left) and councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane (right) celebrate a win at a Portland City Council hearing, October 2025. Portland is ...

"Proportional representation is the right destination for US democracy reformers because it is the best remedy for gerrymandering, gridlock, and polarization. Countries with #ProportionalRepresentation are better at managing conflict and solving hard problems."

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Don't you deserve to be heard and represented?

#ProportionalRepresentation

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Why the U.S. remains a two-party system Why does the U.S. have only two major parties? A look at how the election system, voting rules and political incentives keep Democrats and Republicans in power.

"For now, the two-party system is likely to continue dominating. But with discontent among voters in both the Republican and Democratic bases, a mainstream push to get away from the system could be in the near future." @wshu.org @mollyi.bsky.social www.wshu.org/news/2026-04...

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When and why political leaders polarise rhetoric: Evidence from Twitter/X Standard theories of electoral competition predict that politicians should converge toward the centre as elections approach. This column challenges this prediction, using 3.4 million tweets from 367 political leaders across 21 Western democracies. Rhetorical polarisation between populist and non-populist leaders rises sharply in the two quarters before an election and reverts to average levels once it is over. Both groups adopt a more emotionally direct communication style as elections near, but they increasingly talk about different topics. The findings suggest that social media turns electoral campaigns into an engine of political polarisation.

"[T]he polarising effect is stronger in plurality-rule and presidential systems, where competition typically involves two dominant parties or candidates, than in proportional representation systems with many parties..."

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#ProportionalRepresentation is exactly what we need to be talking about!

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ProRep fixes gerrymandering in the Ugly Gerry font via https://fontsarena.com/ugly-gerry/.

ProRep fixes gerrymandering in the Ugly Gerry font via https://fontsarena.com/ugly-gerry/.

Here's why PR matters for California: it means politicians can't gerrymander communities apart! No more "packing and cracking" to dilute minority voting power.

Every community gets fair representation based on actual votes, not creative map-drawing.

#ProportionalRepresentation

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It's time we had more viable choices to choose from and representatives that really represented us. It's time we catch up to the rest of the world in modernizing our aging political system.

#ProportionalRepresentation

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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .

Exciting news!

We're applying winner-take-all logic to lunch orders at the ProRep Coalition office. 51% wanted pizza, so the other 49% get nothing. This is fine. This is democracy. We are all fine.

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Parliamentary systems with proportional representation perform vastly better and are much more stable than presidential systems.

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Check this out!

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Un-F*ck the System where the N is a diagram of a red and blue two-party legislature, and the (censored) U is an upside-down diagram of a multi-party legislature. The background shows a political protest.

ProRep Coalition.

Un-F*ck the System where the N is a diagram of a red and blue two-party legislature, and the (censored) U is an upside-down diagram of a multi-party legislature. The background shows a political protest. ProRep Coalition.

Pardon our language, but seriously... this political system is totally f*cked, and it's time we unf*ck it.

#ProportionalRepresentation #EndTheDuopoly #EndGerrymandering #EndPolarization

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#ProportionalRepresentation is indeed a game changer.

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How Proportional Representation Works (And Why It Matters for Democracy)
How Proportional Representation Works (And Why It Matters for Democracy) YouTube video by More Equitable Democracy

Afraid of politicians choosing dominance over fairness? Check out #ProportionalRepresentation.

An informative video via coalition member More Equitable Democracy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJc3...

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It's time we catch up with the rest of the modern world and switch to #ProportionalRepresentation.

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In states with a ballot initiative process, we can do an end-around to bypass both parties.

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Proportional Representation, Explained
Proportional Representation, Explained YouTube video by Sightline Institute

An amazing explanation of #ProportionalRepresentation in less than 2 minutes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PWe...

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Stephen's got a point.

Indeed, #ProportionalRepresentation would be a HUGE upgrade, addressing unfairness, gerrymandering, and political violence.

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We need #ProportionalRepresentation to end the two-party doom loop.

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US democracy has repaired itself before. Here’s how we can do it again. America has remade itself every few decades. Are we due?

"We are not short on ideas for how to reform democracy. #ProportionalRepresentation, in which... seats are allocated in proportion to vote share rather than winner-take-all, would let more than two parties win seats, breaking the two-party doom loop at its source."

www.vox.com/politics/480...

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#ProportionalRepresentation would #EndGerrymandering.

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We need #ProportionalRepresentation, too. Now, more than ever.

#ProRep #EndTheDuopoly #EndPolarization

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It is true that the most commonly used of PR requires parties (i.e., party-list PR), but there are versions that do not, like #ProportionalRankedChoiceVoting as used in Portland, PR-Approval, and PR-STAR, plus a few others.

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It's specifically #ProportionalRankedChoiceVoting (aka PRCV) that would lead to a multi-party system. The main change you need is from winner-take-all to multi-winner elections.

www.prorepcoalition.org/what-is-pr

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ProRep California Coalition | Electoral Reform & Multiparty Push Explore the coalition powering ProRep Coalition’s push for electoral reform. Learn how diverse organizations and individuals are advocating for proportional representation and a multiparty democracy i...

Indeed, CNP has already joined our coalition!

www.prorepcoalition.org/our-coalition

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That's interesting to hear, thank you!!

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