Ballots are out, and yes, there are holes in envelopes (they help county election workers confirm ballots aren’t left inside). But the real holes are in Gavin Newsom’s latest con, Proposition 50. Marketed as a “response” to President Donald Trump, Democrats are spinning it as a safeguard for “communities of color” and “democratic representation.”
But Prop 50 doesn’t protect democracy. It’s a calculated power grab that tears apart working-class neighborhoods and silences the very Black and Hispanic voters it claims to defend.
Nowhere is that betrayal clearer than in Long Beach and Carson, two of California’s most diverse cities and historic centers of Black and Hispanic political strength. For decades, Democrats have promised to protect their representation.
Now, Prop 50 exposes those promises for what they are – lies.
Carving Up Communities
Proposition 50 fractures long-standing Black and Hispanic communities, splintering cohesive neighborhoods and diluting minority influence. The new maps reshuffle established communities, splitting up neighborhoods with shared history, culture, and interests. Yet, this is what Democrats said redistricting reforms were supposed to protect.
The impact shows up when you zoom in. Neighborhood by neighborhood, the maps tell the story of how California Democrats are carving up working-class voters to protect their own seats. What they call “equity” is actually political engineering designed to weaken the influence of Black and Hispanic communities.
Take Long Beach; the majority of the city is in Congressional District 42. Roughly 44 percent of its residents are Hispanic, and 12 percent are Black. Under the current map, it sits alongside Bell, Bell Gardens, Bellflower, Commerce, Cudahy, Downey, Huntington Park, Maywood, and Florence-Firestone. This geographic corridor reflects its working-class, majority-Hispanic character along with a significant Black population.
CA-42
— umichvoter 🏳️🌈 (@umichvoter) August 16, 2025
Robert Garcia (@RobertGarcia) undergoes a SIGNIFICANT redrawing of his district, actually gets drawn much cleaner. Gains Seal Beach, Huntington beach and Newport Beach
goes from Harris +32 down to Harris +14 🚨 pic.twitter.com/ctB8g0hPRr
But Prop 50 yanks Long Beach out of the district and links it with coastal Orange County cities like Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, and Corona Del Mar, which are some of the wealthiest, least diverse areas in the state.
By merging working-class neighborhoods with affluent coastal enclaves, Prop 50 effectively drowns out the Hispanic and Black voting strength. The local issues that matter to them most, like affordable housing, public safety, and building generational wealth, get replaced by the priorities of wealthier, suburban voters who have little in common with the communities being cut apart.
A similar story plays out in Carson. The city is currently part of Congressional District 44 and sits alongside Lakewood, Lynwood, Paramount, San Pedro, South Gate, and West Carson. It has long been a rare stronghold of Black political power in Los Angeles County. Nearly one in four Carson residents is Black, a higher share than even in neighboring Compton, and about 40 percent are Hispanic.
With Prop 50, the political map is rearranged and ties Carson to new areas like Commerce, Huntington Park, and the Florence-Firestone community. On paper, the lines look minor. In practice, they shift the district’s balance, weakening Carson’s unique role as a center of Black representation.
Gavin Newsom's Unconstitutional Maps: 3/7
— Mark Meuser (@MarkMeuser) August 23, 2025
CD 41 an Los Angeles county congressional district has a fishhook into Orange County. pic.twitter.com/yZ8QcAfe44
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And this pattern isn’t confined to Los Angeles County. Across California – from Sacramento to the Lancaster-Palmdale corridor, the Inland Empire, and San Diego – Black and Hispanic neighborhoods are being quietly reshuffled into new districts dominated by larger, wealthier, and more suburban electorates. Rep. Kevin Kiley (R), who represents Congressional District 3, shared a map on his X account over the summer.
Make no mistake, I will win reelection regardless of Newsom's attempt to gerrymander my district.
— Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) August 15, 2025
But I fully expect that the beautiful 3rd District will remain exactly as it is. We will defeat Newsom's sham initiative and vindicate the will of California voters pic.twitter.com/d2RQlUwiO7
His official homepage describes the area as "the most geographically diverse in California, spanning most of the California-Nevada border and includes Plumas, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, Alpine, Mono, and Inyo, and parts of Yuba, El Dorado, and Sacramento counties."
For communities that spent decades fighting for a seat at the table, Prop 50 is a step backwards. Instead of reinforcing the hard-won progress of Black and Hispanic voters, Newsom’s political hustle risks undoing it while insisting Democrats are the ones “protecting democracy.”
The irony is that the party that claims to fight gerrymandering is the one pushing a measure that looks like the textbook definition of it.
History Repeats Itself
This isn’t new. California Democrats have a long record of manipulating district lines under the banner of “equity.” Behind every promise to “protect representation” lies the same cynical playbook: divide voters, protect incumbents, and call it progress.
Back in 2012, then-Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson didn’t even bother to hide it. When critics blasted the city’s redistricting process, Wesson puffed out his chest before a room of ministers and bragged,
“I was able to protect the most important asset that we as black people have, and that’s to make sure that a minimum of two of the council people will be black for the next 30 years.”
Wesson tried to make it sound noble, but his guarantee of two Black seats for 30 years was not about preserving representation or empowering communities. It was a power play to lock in control for insiders, widely described as a racial cartography that tested the limits of federal law.
Fast-forward a decade, and the mask slipped off completely.
In 2022, Angelenos got a rare look behind the curtain at what really happens during political backroom deals. A leaked recording from a 2021 private meeting caught then-City Council President Nury Martinez, along with Councilmembers Gil Cedillo, Kevin de León, and labor boss Ron Herrera, scheming over new district lines. The group mocked Black neighborhoods with racist slurs and plotted how to rig the maps to expand Hispanic political control on the City Council.
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This incident confirmed what many already knew. That beneath the talk of “equity” lies a culture where self-interest comes first. These Democrat politicians weren’t protecting communities; they were dissecting them, surgically slicing up voters of color to secure their own seats.
From Wesson’s legally dubious power grab to Martinez’s scandalous backroom deal, the same power-hungry instincts disguised as “demographic fairness” run deep. Both prove that “protecting communities” has become the perfect excuse to divide voters of color, putting political survival ahead of genuine empowerment.
And make no mistake, that same cold, calculating logic lives on in Prop 50. Along with the same tools, the same tactics, and the same machine.
Warning: coarse language
Nury, about having LAX in one's district: "That's where the fucking money's at." pic.twitter.com/ol25P3i4f8
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) October 11, 2022
Political Pawns
Newsom and his Democrat allies tout Prop 50 as a tool for inclusion, claiming the new maps give every voice equal weight. In reality, Prop 50 does the opposite. It splinters voters of color into districts where their collective influence vanishes, while the political machine consolidates even more power.
For Black and Hispanic voters, who are repeatedly used as political pawns, the question is simple: “Does this redistricting initiative truly protect communities of color, or does it splinter them to serve partisan interests?”
Either way, it’s déjà vu all over again.
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