It is important to understand that Texas was fixing unconstitutional maps which is why they had to redistrict. #NoOnProp50

It’s fascinating, and infuriating, how Gavin Newsom, Barack Obama, and national Democrats are gaslighting their own voters over Prop 50. California Democrats overwhelmingly support our independent redistricting commission. So why is Gavin trying to kill it? Simple: Gavin wants power. Prop 50 isn’t about protecting democracy. It’s about launching his presidential campaign and handing California’s maps back to the same Sacramento insiders voters kicked out a decade ago. Their plan has 3 parts. Step 1: Lie to Democrats by blaming President Trump. They say Prop 50 is response to Trump destroying democracy. That’s pure gaslighting, playing upon Democrats suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Here’s the truth: Texas fixed unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. They followed the law. That has nothing to do with California’s independent maps. Gavin is exploiting anti-Trump emotion to trick voters into abandoning their own principles. Step 2: Lie that Prop 50 is temporary. It’s not. California’s Constitution allows redistricting only after the census, a referendum, or a court order. Prop 50 creates a fourth way, any time special interests want more seats, they can buy a new map. That means: 💰 Dump millions into Sacramento. 🗺️ Politicians redraw maps to protect their donors. 🧢 Run a deceptive campaign to override the citizen maps. Who loses? The voters of California. Who wins? partisan special-interests. Step 3: Pretend the people are deciding. But California is a republic, not a pure democracy. Even majority rule must obey the Constitution. And Prop 50 maps used race as a predominant factor, exactly what the Constitution forbids. A popular vote doesn’t make an illegal map legal. So why the gaslighting? Because national Democrats are panicking. Their radical policies are losing voters. Without gerrymanders, they risk becoming a coastal party of elites with no national base. They see what’s coming: ⚖️ The Supreme Court could soon end racial gerrymanders (affirmative action for politicians). 📉 2020 census errors gave Democrats ~6 seats, they’ll lose those. 🚚 Voters are fleeing blue states, more seats gone. 📋 A citizenship question in 2030 could cost them even more. National Democrats know that the Congress elected in 2026 will decide if that citizenship question appears. To stop it, they need control of Congress, and Prop 50 is their Trojan horse. This is about special interest power, not California fairness. So yes, Gavin Newsom and the D.C. machine are gaslighting California Democrats into destroying the one reform they actually love. Don’t fall for it. #NoOn50 #NoOnProp50

I am tired of hearing that California is redistricting to combat President Trump and Texas redistricting efforts. Texas was forced to redistrict because the Biden DOJ sued Galveston County and lost which changed the law thus making four Texas Congressional Districts unconstitutional. When Texas drew its congressional districts in 2021, they created four congressional districts where they combined two minority communities to create a minority-majority district (Coalition minority districts). On March 24, 2022, the Biden DOJ sued Galveston County Commissioners because Galveston did not draw a coalition minority district for the Black and Latino population. On October 13, 2023, a Federal Judge agreed with Biden's DOJ and found that Galveston County was required to draw a Commissioner seat by combining two minority communities. On November 10, 2023, a three Judge panel of the 5th Circuit found that combining two minority groups to create a minority-majority district was unconstitutional and thus asked for an en banc panel to review the issue to overturn prior precedents. On Aug. 1, 2024, the en banc panel of the Fifth Circuit concluded "that coalition claims do not comport with Section 2’s statutory language or with Supreme Court cases interpreting Section 2." The Fifth Circuit ruled coalition minority districts are unconstitutional. On July 7, 2025, President Trump's DOJ sent a letter to Texas highlighting the 5th Circuit Order, pointing out that there are four coalition minority congressional districts that are now unconstitutional and that Texas needed to fix the problem. Texas made a prudent choice to redraw the congressional districts so as to save their taxpayers the expense of litigating the losing case of defending minority coalition districts. Texas did not have to redraw four minority coalitions districts because of President Trump. Texas had to redraw the lines because Biden sued Galveston County and the law was clarified that coalition minority districts were unconstitutional. It is important to understand that the 2021 lines drawn by the California Independent Redistricting Commission have never been challenged in Court as unconstitutional because districts were drawn to create coalition minority districts. Since Texas law requires that the Texas legislature draw the congressional districts, the Texas legislature followed the law. However, the California Constitution prohibits the California legislature from drawing congressional districts and instead places that responsibility on the Independent Redistricting Commission. To put Proposition 50 on the ballot for the voters of California to decide, the California legislature had to violate the California Constitution multiple times. The California legislature is asking the voters of California to forgiven them for violating the California Constitution when they should have asked the voters for permission to draw the maps. I was a part of two lawsuits filed before the California Supreme Court asking the Court to stop Proposition 50 before it went to the voters because the California legislature violated the California Constitution. Unfortunately, the California Supreme Court refused to require the California legislature to defend their unconstitutional acts and simply dismissed the Writ without even deciding the merits of the matter. While I am preparing the next lawsuit that will be filed, it is important that the voters of California stand up against the unconstitutional actions of Gavin Newsom and the California legislature by voting No on November 4th to Proposition 50. The next time someone tells you that Newsom had to Gavinmander the State of California, remind them that the reason Texas had to redraw Congressional Districts is because Biden sued and lost which resulted in Texas having to redraw its lines.