Activist: Focusing on state-level politics can help Democrats beat GOP gerrymandering
Progressive activists focused on opposition to President Trump are turning their attention to another target: state-level politics.
"States play a major role in national elections," Catherine Vaughan, the co-founder and CEO of Flippable, a political action committee that focuses exclusively on state governments, said during an interview broadcast on Monday's "Rising."
Vaughan noted that it is state legislatures that draw the district lines that set congressional seats, and that have protected a number of GOP lawmakers.
"The state policies on who gets to vote, how votes are counted, how district lines are drawn — which makes Congress so much more gerrymandered, and so much harder for Democrats to flip than it was before," she said.
Flippable is one of several new organizations on the political left that are cropping up in response to earlier successes by conservative groups like the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) and the State Policy Network at using state politics as a means to implement their electoral and policy goals.
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