Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Hundreds gather in Mississippi to protest Republican redistricting: ‘This fight is familiar territory’

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Dozens of residents testify to legislature’s redistricting committee in heated hearing, the last of eight Hundreds of people gathered across from the Mississippi state capitol building on Thursday evening to rally against the aggressive Republican efforts to draw maps that favor their own party.Shortly after the US supreme court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais, which severely weakened section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Tate Reeves, the Mississippi governor, moved in lockstep with other Republican governors and lawmakers to call for a special session to redraw maps. However, before that special session could occur, Reeves canceled it and wrote on X that he expected “lawmakers to redraw congressional lines BETWEEN NOW and 2027 elections!” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/02/mississippi-republican-redistricting-protest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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