"Tennessee is one of the hardest states in the US for people with felony convictions to regain their voting rights; nearly 400,000 residents are disenfranchised due to felony-level convictions as of 2025."

Source: www.sentencingproject.org

Jim Crow is alive and well in Tennessee.

*** Racist South Carolina Republicans Move to Eliminate The State's Lone Democratic CD ***

"Racist South Carolina Republican took a crucial step toward redrawing the state's congressional map in an effort that could dismantle the state's lone Democratic district, long represented by Rep. Jim Clyburn.

In an 87-25 vote, the South Carolina House approved a sine die amendment allowing lawmakers to return after adjournment to take up congressional redistricting " clearing the first major procedural hurdle in a growing national push to redraw maps after the Supreme Court gutted key Voting Rights Act protections that had long shielded Black voting power from racial gerrymandering."

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*** What Evil Looks Like': Outrage as Tennessee GOP Rams Through Racist Voting Map at Trumpf's Behest ***

"This is not a special session"- this is a white power rally, and a white power grab," said one Tennessee Democrat.

Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted during a special session on Thursday to adopt a new congressional map that would carve up the state's lone majority-Black district, a move that came amid raucous protests from angry residents and Democratic lawmakers.

One filthy Republican wore a Trumpf flag to the vote.