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Takeaways:

• Trump literally called Texas Republicans demanding five specific House seats through redistricting, and they delivered exactly that - this is direct coordination to destroy community representation for partisan control.
• Democratic strategic paralysis enables Republican institutional capture - while one party operates with unified purpose, Democrats debate whether tactical responses violate principles, guaranteeing community destruction.
• Communities sharing schools, flood challenges, and economic needs are deliberately split across districts so no representative focuses on their actual problems - districts serve Trump's agenda, not neighborhood needs.
• Texas represents Trump's blueprint for nationwide minority rule through systematic gerrymandering - he promised other red states will follow to make Democratic competition mathematically impossible.
• Moral high ground approaches already failed catastrophically, delivering Trump's 6-3 Supreme Court majority, Republican redistricting control nationwide, and systematic elimination of community voices.
• Tactical unity behind community protection is the only response matching Republican institutional capture - international examples show tactical power followed by structural reform works, strategic division while communities get destroyed does not.