Top News | ‘What Evil Looks Like’: Outrage as Tennessee GOP Rams Through Racist Voting Map
Support independent journalism Without readers like you, we wouldn’t exist. DONATE Thursday, May 7, 2026 ‘What Evil Looks Like’: Outrage as Tennessee GOP Rams Through Racist Voting Map at Trump’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. The special session was called by GOP Gov. Bill Lee at the behest of President Donald Trump , whose aggressive gerrymandering push across the country was supercharged by the US Supreme Court’s decision last week gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial discrimination . One Tennessee Republican—state Rep....