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Texas Senate Passes Map After 2 Democrats Fail to Join House Member Walkout (truthout.org)

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The gerrymander would benefit the GOP and dilute Black and Brown voters’ power. The House may now decide its fate.

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

It doesn't help that these articles all get shared at random times. This post is from today, Friday, and it is an article published Thursday, about events that happened Tuesday. So people that heard this same story Tuesday are initially going to think this is a new event that happened today, after the news they heard Tuesday.

Most people here are likely not from Texas, so even though this story is of national interest (possibly to people outside the US also) many may not always remember who has or hasn't voted on things yet.

I'm decently interested in politics, consider myself literate, and as so much news is coming about this topic every day, I still need to check multiple times to see if this is new news or old news and who it's about. Initially I was thinking why can't people tell the difference too, but as time keeps going, this random swirling of posts really doesn't help anyone keep track of what's going on, so I just accept this story is going to be confusing people for the moment. At least people are invested in the outcome, this seems like this may be a key event in US history years from now depending how it plays out.