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Impeachment very important but also pay attention to this: Trump has new stealth plan to preserve white electoral power by excluding millions of people of color from political representation. This is next front in GOP war on voting.

My new feature story motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
After SCOTUS blocked census citizenship question Trump issued exec order that could let GOP states draw districts excluding 55% of Latinos, 45% of Asian Americans & 30% of African Americans from representation. This is racial gerrymandering on steroids
Political districts have long been drawn based on total population but Trump wants states to only count eligible voters, excluding kids & non-citizens from representation. This would be huge power shift to GOP areas, undoing decades of demographic change & minority representation
The same people who convinced SCOTUS to gut Voting Rights Act now want to overturn “one person, one vote”

Conservative activist Edward Blum told me Republicans in 5 states have called him to express interest in Trump’s plan to exclude non-voters from political representation
GOP gerrymandering could be even more extreme in 2021:

-First redistricting cycle in 50 years without full protection of Voting Rights Act

-SCOTUS says federal courts can’t review partisan gerrymandering

-Huge numbers of people of color excluded from political representation
Trump's plan to exclude millions from political representation underscores why it’s so important for Dems to focus on taking back state legislative chambers in 2020 before next cycle of redistricting begins in 2021 motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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