downtroddendeity:

dukeofbookingham:

millennial-review:

Oh hey I haven’t yelled about voting in a while

It’s also a census year. Which means state legislatures are going to be redrawing their districts.

Thanks to the magic of gerrymandering, whoever’s in charge of the state during redistricting has a ton of power.

Republicans focusing on taking control of state legislatures because people don’t pay attention to them and gerrymandering to give themselves the advantage is a major part of what got us where we are now.

So if you can, pay attention to state legislature races and vote down the ticket. The districts are often small and races are often decided by a couple hundred or even a few dozen votes, so in a lot of cases it can be totally doable to flip a seat.