If the Court strikes down VRA districts, the easiest way to undo that damage would be to move to multi-member PR districts, which a future Congress can do by statute. Same or better minority representation results (e.g. black members in the South), no need for it to be explicitly race-conscious.
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Wow.
As I told the @apnews.com, it's a great sign that the American opposition is following their Hungarian counterparts in putting corruption front and center — but it can't just be messaging, it has to be a real, loud, attention-grabbing agenda. apnews.com/article/demo...
I profiled Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who pushed out roughly 70 percent of the Civil Rights Division's lawyers, turned DOJ's civil rights enforcement on its head, and is now reportedly in the running for attorney general
Someone compared Magyar to “Dems nominating Liz Cheney” and it’s so much crazier than that.
Péter Magyar is like if Trump won 3 more terms, then in 2038 Usha Vance divorced JD over the Epstein files, started her own party and won the presidency and 70 Senate seats
Also her name is Sally America
I think it’s notable but not bizarre? Like if Abigail Spanberger’s name was Virginia or something. Or if the junior senator from Rhode Island was elected president
Someone compared Magyar to “Dems nominating Liz Cheney” and it’s so much crazier than that.
Péter Magyar is like if Trump won 3 more terms, then in 2038 Usha Vance divorced JD over the Epstein files, started her own party and won the presidency and 70 Senate seats
Also her name is Sally America
I know, doesn’t make it not-ironic tho
Me, sowing an electoral system so I can get a constitution-amending supermajority on a smaller share of the vote: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me, reaping an electoral system where they can get a constitution-amending supermajority on a smaller share of the vote: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
Fidesz lost voters 18-29 by 66 points
Hilariously, “Fidesz“ is an acronym in Hungarian for “Alliance of Young Democrats.”
Tisza winning 53% of the vote but on track for almost 70% of seats.
Electoral system chicanery cuts both ways!!
We won’t know until final vote tallies, but it’s likely that Orbán‘s emulation of the US electoral system — making elections much more winner-take-all and gerrymandered — has blown up in his face.
Should be a warning to the GOP: if you lose badly enough, any gerrymander can become a dummymander
Authoritarianism is brittle. Autocrats want you to believe they are all-powerful and unstoppable, but it‘s just a confidence game. A self-perpetuating bluff. Today the Hungarians showed just how weak and empty Orbánism always was.
Trumpism is next.
Even more stunning and remarkable than most Hungarians dared to dream
Orbán turns out to be more of a democrat than the U.S. president and a nontrivial number of GOP candidates.
more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out
Is Budapest the bellwether? Two Hungary scenarios with major implications for the United States Pictured: U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, wave to the audience during a “Day of Friendship” event in Budapest, Hungary. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)
Trump’s favorite autocrat, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, is facing a formidable election challenge this Sunday. @michaelangeloni.bsky.social covers the implications of Hungary’s election for the global fight against authoritarianism.
Read his briefing here: https://protdem.org/4ck3Vlm
Holy shit
A big thanks to @ianbassin.bsky.social for the shoutout for Democracy Docket!
not just the allegations — also the receipts!
It's Galleover
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Steyer 2026: What else are you going to do at this point
