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https://sarbanes.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/republicans-who-slap-voters-in-the-face-may-be-in-for-a-nasty-surprise	Republicans Who Slap Voters in the Face May Be in for a Nasty Surprise	2018-12-13	2018	2018-12	Democrat	House	MD	John Sarbanes	S001168	sarbanes.house.gov			legacy	Republicans in Michigan and Wisconsin who havemoved aggressivelyto steamroll voters and strip power from incoming Democratic officials appear confident that they will pay no political price, and manyanalysts seem to concur.... But that assumption overlooks two powerful lessons from the recent midterms: One, that gerrymanderingcan backfire, particularly when the political winds shift dramatically. And two, that voters are increasingly fed up with assaults on democracy....In the recent midterms, several Democrats won in strongly GOP districts gerrymandered for Republicans, including theEighthand11thDistricts of Michigan, theFirst Districtof South Carolina, theFifth Districtof Oklahoma, and theSeventhand32ndDistricts of Texas. House Democrats in part credit their anti-corruption platform, andhave pledged to approve HR 1, a reform package built on voting rights, campaign finance, redistricting, and ethics changes, as their first order of business in January.... It's folks from across the political spectrum who are demanding this, said Maryland Democrat John Sarbanes, who chairs the House's Democracy Reform Task Force, at a Capitol Hill press conference last month. It's not just Democrats. It's independents, it's Republicans.	1	2026-03-30T12:14:52Z	2026-03-30T12:14:52Z