Democracy Quote by Heather Cox Richardson

“The Republican Party's gerrymandering efforts were also having unintended consequences. For years the party had poured resources into state legislatures in order to redraw…

— Mark Lilla

From partisan gerrymandering and unlimited corporate money flooding our elections to voter suppression legislation, the Republican Party, aligned with Trump, has waged a war…

— John Fetterman

Voter suppression in Florida in 2000 helped put Republican George W Bush into office despite losing the popular vote and the targeting of state…

— Heather Cox Richardson

To make sure Republicans stayed in power, they suppressed voting by people likely to vote Democratic, and gerrymandered states so that even if Democrats…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“the gerrymandering of 2010 had created what Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker called a “historical oddity.” Political extremists now had no incentive to…

— Jane Mayer

Gerrymandering is a problem, of course, and the Senate is built in a way that disadvantages Democrats. Unfair as it may be, voter participation…

— Jonathan Capehart

In order to maintain American democracy we need to tackle the problematic influence of big money donors, corporate political action committees and dark money…

— John Fetterman

We always look at gerrymandering and what it has done to voting in America, but what I realized the other day is that the…

— Trevor Noah

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and…

— Thomas E. Mann

We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get…

— Barack Obama

Fighting gerrymandering is one thing. The other thing is insuring we have the right candidates for the people and not the right candidates for…

— Ilhan Omar

The Republican majority, left to its own devices from 1995 to 2000, was a party committed to limited government and restoring the balances of…

— Mike Pence