Go Tennessee - Adding Fuel to the Argument to be the Worst State in the USA

With the Voting Rights Act, some states were required to draw districts where minority residents made up most of the population, and offered a way for minority voters to challenge certain districts as undermining their political power. 

The Supreme Court has negated that law, and deep-south Tennessee has jumped immediately to use race to change its congressional districts so that the minority voters power will be diluted by Whites. 

The new map will indeed split apart a dense cluster of Democratic voters in the Ninth District — which supported Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 by a wide margin — into three Republican-leaning districts. 

This move proves again that since Republicans can't win by being fair, they will do anything to stay in power. Nothing is off the table when you have to rationalize away your support for the hierarchies that a man like Donald Trump champions.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/08/us/politics/tennessee-gop-map-black-voters.html

Will Vivek Ramaswamy See a Light When it Happens to Him?

A primary opponent of Vivek Ramaswamy, Casey Putsch, received about 18 percent of the vote in the Republican primary in Ohio for governor while assailing “third worlders,” invoking “blood and soil” language used by Nazis and attacking Ramaswamy as an “Indian boy [who] cosplays an American.” 

To a town hall full of young Republicans, Vivek Ramaswamy, the winner and also the name-caller for "woke" candidates, did actually acknowledge the existence of racism as he mentioned many of the hierarchies that plague the United States. 

“The number one factor that determines whether you achieve your goals in life … is actually you,” he said at a May 1 event. “The number one factor that determines whether you achieve your goals in life … is actually you,” he said at the May 1 event. “It’s not the Jews,” Ramaswamy added. “It’s not the White people. It’s not the patriarchy. It’s not the Black people. It’s not the foreigners.”

Apparently he is trying to steer his party away from the extremist fringes that have flared up in his own race. Good luck with that with a President who convinced so many of them to support him because he promised to build and support hierarchies. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/08/vivek-ramaswamy-racism-ohio-governor/?utm_campaign=wp_the7&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F4741d03%2F69fdc00be9f14b167bc865d0%2F69238be2e72028703ff640f9%2F33%2F98%2F69fdc00be9f14b167bc865d0