Tennessee Redistricting Special Session: Who Wins and Who Loses
The new map could cost Democrats Tennessee’s only House seat and has already triggered an emergency lawsuit from the NAACP, officials said.
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Tennessee redistricting debate marked by fiery oratory about Black struggles for voting rights
Memphis Sen. Raumesh Akbari, flanked by Nashville Democratic Sen. Charlane Oliver and Democratic Rep. Justin Pearson of Memphis outside the Tennessee Capitol on May 7, 2026. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)During separate hours-long debates on redistricting in the Tennessee House and Senate on Thursday, Democrats delivered fiery oratory, often invoking the decades-long struggles of Black Tennesseans to secure voting rights, in opposing …
Tennessee Democrats Warn Their State's Redistricting Is Just the Start
George Walker IV/APTennessee Democrats, who on Thursday locked arms and walked out of the state House chamber as Republicans passed a new congressional map, say that the redistricting efforts in their state are just the first of more to come.“I walked into the Capitol today, it was 2026, and when I walked out of the building it was pre 1965,” state Rep. Justin Jones told NOTUS. “What we saw today was a coordinated assault on Black voting power a…
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