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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

TOUGH DAY IN TENNESSEE It's been a rough day for all of us. I'm so proud of everyone who showed up. Get some sleep, and the work continues! Love y'all. 💞

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“NO JIM CROW” “STOP THE TN STEAL” Senator Charlane Oliver stands on her desk with a banner to oppose the racist 9-0 map as republicans strip Memphis of congressional representation. @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“HANDS OFF MEMPHIS!” Protestors & Democratic legislators leave the scene of the crime arm in arm, after Tennessee Republicans broke the law to strip Memphis of representation with a racist 9-0 map, drowning out the majority Black city with white power. @GovBillLee

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just now — @TNRepParkinson: “LET MEMPHIS SECEDE FROM TENNESSEE. Let my people go.” #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

⚡️ WATCH — JUST NOW — 99% white Tennessee House Republicans pass a racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black Memphis of congressional representation

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

How the house voted… 3 Republican abstentions, 2 no votes (white and Gillespie, both from Memphis) #JimCrow #Memphis @GovBillLee

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Spencer @neverworry.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This shit is disgusting.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

WATCH: “I’m proud of you. I love you.” Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social embraces his brother @keshaunpearson.bsky.social as Troopers arrest him for refusing to leave the balcony in a show of nonviolent resistance after Speaker Sexton cleared it

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

JUST NOW: Rep. Todd Warner walks into the house to strip majority Black Memphis or representation wearing a trump flag as a cape as Rep. Camper of Memphis looks on Video: www.instagram.com/reel/DYCuFmt...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

REP. @dixie4tn: “THIS IS NOT A GAME.” REP. @HaroldLoveJr: “It is dismantling the power of African-American voters in the 9th district — and anyone saying different is not being forthright.” #Memphis #JimCrow

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

WATCH: “No racial data was used in the drawing of this map.” 🤔 Speaker Sexton also pretends not to know if MEMPHIS is predominantly Black, insists with a straight face to @rep.jesse.chism race wasn’t a factor in carving the city into thirds- precisely splitting the Black vote

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Rep. @rep.jesse.chism (D) : “Memphis is a predominantly African-American city, correct?” Rep. William Lamberth (R): “I’m not privy to those demographics. I don’t know.” 🤷🏼 *HUGE LAUGH FROM THE AUDIENCE* The Republican gaslighting as they carve up Memphis is so absurd you gotta laugh.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

US: “Do you think they were listening in there, Stacey?” stacey abrams: “I believe they heard me. I don’t know that they’ll do what they know they should do.” Stacey was in Tennessee to testify against the racist redistricting of MEMPHIS. @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

WALTER BAILEY: “Dr. King took a bullet in the neck. They were shot. Killed. Murdered. Advancing voting rights… it’s an insult to their legacy. To their deaths.” @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn SenJohnson BrentTaylorTN #Memphis

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🔥 Sekou Franklin: “UNPRECEDENTED. The largest attack in Tennessee’s modern history on the rights of Black voters.” He blasts SenJohnson @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn’s plan to carve up Memphis, rejects @janicebowlingtn’s ridiculous idea 3 (Republican) reps is actually good for the city🙃

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🔥 @staceyabrams.com : "The South is where over half of Black people live— You’re silencing citizens and telling them their voices don’t matter… We would never say ranchers can only be represented by vegans." (H/T @fairfightaction.bsky.social )

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

All you really need to know to understand how obscene what Republicans are doing to Memphis is this: They’re pretending not to know Memphis is a majority Black city🙃

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

UPDATE: Today Tennessee Republicans will strip representation from majority Black Memphis and dilute it with white power, stretching their districts to cherry red Williamson County, the richest in the state — making Tennessee 9-0 Republicans. While insisting it isn’t about race.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“BOOOOOOOO!” Republicans booed hard as they arrive to strip representation from MEMPHIS, Dems cheered

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

REP. POWELL: “THE CALL OF THE GOVERNOR IS ILLEGAL… what are our laws if we can come in here and break them??” (As speaker Sexton kicks out an actual CROSSVILLE resident from the gallery) #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

REP. @votegloriaj.bsky.social : “This is not a special session, this is a white power rally, and a white power grab.” #JimCrow #Memphis

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

REP. @justinjpearson.bsky.social on the new maps: “This is just wrong. And everyone knows why this is happening. This is an attack on our Black majority district… we’re changing laws to change statutes to make things that were illegal legal.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

⚡️ JUST NOW - “HANDS OFF OUR VOTE!” The Crowd disrupts senate committee as @GovBillLee & republicans move to strip memphis of representation for Trump, causing them to adjourn and flee

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

WATCH: “HANDS OFF MEMPHIS! HANDS OFF MEMPHIS! SHAME! SHAME!” senate committee disrupted and adjourned as Republicans and @GovBillLee move to strip Memphis of representation with absurd, racist 9-0 maps no matter if they changed these words no matter what they do we still coming out

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

JUST NOW — SENATOR @jeffyarbro.bsky.social to protestors on the @GovBillLee @marshablackburn push to strip majority-Black Memphis of representation after they shut down a senate committee: “I respect people who view this as arbitrary power worthy of being resisted.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

HAPPENING NOW: stacey abrams & @RepCohen & George Bailey testify against the racist Republican @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn push to strip MEMPHIS of representation, drowning out Black representation with white power. (Protestors are kept out after disrupting the last hearing)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

WATCH— @warnock.senate.gov : “The same tools used during Jim Crow, packing and cracking Black voting districts, are back, and now the Court said that’s fine… This is an effort by politicians to choose who their voters are instead of having voters choose their politicians.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“I’m not privy to those demographics”🤔 William Lamberth is laughed at by the audience as he pretends not to know Memphis is a majority black city 🙃 as he pushes a law to delete the last sentence of the law that makes what they’re doing to Memphis blatantly illegal

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🔥 sekou franklin: “This proposal is racially discriminatory, unconstitutional, and undermines the election administration system… BLACK VOTE DILUTION AT AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE.” @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee @SenJohnson #Memphis

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“Memphis is Black! There’s no denying that!” House committee disrupted after Speaker sexton presents the racist Republican maps and claims race has nothing to do with how they carved up the city to dilute black representation with white power 🤔 (From @gabbysalinas)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“Do you support this kind of demonstration?” @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “Absolutely! What the hell else are we gonna do?” (From @MemphisForAll)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!” The people of Tennessee not taking the stripping of the voice of majority Black MEMPHIS (to protect a corrupt president) quietly #NewJimCrow @GovBillLee. @MarshaBlackburn

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

#JimCrow2.0 is here!!!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

HAPPENING NOW… marching on the Capitol…. #NewJimCrow @GovBillLee

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social : “You’re spitting on the graves of our civil rights elders.” Republicans just rejected Jones’ proposed rules around transparency re: new racist maps diluting the Black vote in Memphis with white power for Trump. Racially gerrymandered maps nobody has seen.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“I just now realized how corrupt this state is… they’re also cowards.” Tennesseans at the legislature for the first time just watched the shambolic Lamberth-presided *rules* committee — as Republicans move to strip representation from majority Black MEMPHIS🎪

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“WHOSE STATE? OUR STATE!” Tennesseans sing the national anthem and @OdessaKelly leads a protest after a shambolic rules committee starts a dark week of Black voter disenfranchisement in Tennessee

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

When your racist Redistricting plan breaks the law, Just change the law

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

“HANDS OFF MEMPHIS! HANDS OFF MEMPHIS!” #NewJimCrow @GovBillLee

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

⚡️ HAPPENING NOW — “THE DISTRICTS MAY NOT BE CHANGED BETWEEN APPORTIONMENTS….” Tennesseans are reading the law Republicans are breaking to steal representation from Memphis out loud before rules committee

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Jason '🙉😡🗣😞😐' Cornett @querlvox.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Just so we're all clear: this will not take the spotlight off of the Epstein Files.

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