Louisiana Resident Speaks Truth to Idiocy

 

A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power. 

 “The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy,” he told lawmakers. 

“If y’all could give us less than zero seats, you would do it.” 

Marshawn’s testimony came as Louisiana Republicans advance a new congressional map after the Supreme Court weakened key protections in the Voting Rights Act. 

 “There will be no more of your party,” he said. “The midterms gonna come, y’all gonna get wiped out,” he said. 

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Rep. Justin Pearson on TN House Floor May 7, 2026

"These maps are racist tools of white supremacy at the behest of the most powerful white supremacist in the United States of America, Donald J. Trump. . . .” —Rep. Justin Pearson

 

Trump Stooge, Gov. Bill Lee, Calls Special Session to Further Disenfranchise Tennesseans

Four in ten Tennesseans are Democrats, most of them concentrated in Nashville and Memphis.  Even so, Democrats controlled only two of the nine House seats in 2020, when Nashville’s electoral district was further gerrymandered to disenfranchise Nashville Democrats and deliver to the Gangster-in-Chief another House stooge.

That left one Congressional seat held by Dems in Memphis, where the African-American population is over 50 percent. 

With the recent evisceration of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Fascists Court, the Don has given his underling, Gov. Bill Lee, orders to call a special legislative session to chop up the Memphis electoral district before the Fall 2026 election in a desperate effort to steal the remaining House seat.  

If democrats and Democrats don’t mobilize now, this will mean no representation for 40 percent of Tennesseans in the U.S. House of Representatives.