1/ From Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter today: "The Department of Justice today sued the state of Texas for violating the Voting Rights Act, saying its aggressively gerrymandered new districts discriminate against minority voters.
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2/ Ninety-five percent of Texas’s population growth in the past decade has come from Black, Latino, and Asian people, but the new maps dilute their voting power and strengthen that of white voters.

Dec 7, 2021 · 8:11 AM UTC

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3/ Voting rights expert Ari Berman explains that the new maps mean that whites make up 40% of the population but control 60% of the districts, Latinos make up 39% of the population but control 20% of the districts...
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4/ ...Blacks make up 12% of the population but control 2% of the districts, and Asians make up 5% of the population but control 0% of the districts.
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