The stories are essentially all the same. A couple democratic leaders say “they better not push that button… because we’ll be forced to fight back!”… or (as with Beto) we should punch first and harder… but it all appears to be a charade to convince the base that at least someone is fighting.

The problem appears to be a lack of ammunition. The blue states are either structurally constrained from making changes (because Democrats tend to oppose gerrymandering and passed laws to restrict it), or they are already gerrymandered in our favor and there isn’t much juice left to squeeze… or both.

We inherited a moderate Democrat from Plattsburgh and I voted for him. But then he retired in 2015 and had a local meetup to introduce his chosen successor, Aaron Woolf, who I liked a lot, made GOTV calls for him. But that was when Stefanik inexplicably won and we've been stuck with her ever since.

All of this plays into invalidating the results of the 2026 elections if Lord Orange Tiny Penis' team loses. This will be fought in the courts until it gets to the SCOTUS and the Tangerine Micro Phallus wins 6-3

and CA is doing the same thing:
Creating Dem friendly districts, which will surely be appealed to the Supreme court, about he same time TX's map arrives. Or, hold all redistricting cases and rule en mass. So the SC can't rule in favor of TX without ruling in favor of CA and NY.

And if they did, it wouldn't make it to the court with TX because they can move much faster since both CA and NY would have to amend their constitutions before they could redraw any lines.

If I recall correctly, one of the items in one of Biden's bills was to ban partisan gerrymandering nationwide, and to set up independent redistricting commissions in all of the states. But of course, we can't have nice things now, can we??