Sorry Rachel Maddow, but radical lefties thumping their chests about protests advocating “workers over billionaires” while getting funding from America’s most notorious billionaire is the most contradictory antithesis of “grassroots.” As leftist groups across the country (including Hawaii) prepare for a wave of 750+ communist-style protests against President Donald Trump and the bourgeoisies dubbed “May Day Strong,” MRC Business investigated the nearly 500 groups that currently make up the lefty “coalition.” At least 33 of the groups, some of which boast national reach with multiple local chapters hosting events in their jurisdictions, received $115,124,845 from George Soros between 2016 and 2026. This completely upends the purported mission of the event: “On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping.” The joke writes itself.  As Fox News contextualized, “May Day’s roots trace back to the 19th Century, when Marxists, socialists and labor unions called for a day of strikes in Paris and later became a national holiday in the Soviet Union after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.” Go figure. The list of demands from the coalition reads like an excerpt taken straight from the Communist Manifesto: That we tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes, come first. No ICE. No war. No private army serving authoritarian power. Expand democracy. Hands off our vote. Except it’s the “rich” backing some of the powerful groups behind the protests. If it sounds hypocritical, it’s because it is. The coalition website includes a "pledge" prompt for visitors who want to participate and download the so-called "Real Affordability Agenda." The options for the pledge included the following: "Stand in Solidarity with Minnesota Demand Congress Freeze ICE Funding Join Upcoming No Kings Actions No Work No School No Shopping on May 1st March, picket, educate, agitate and rally May 1st" When MS Now host Rachel Maddow gave the “May Day Strong” event a free infomercial during the April 28 edition of her show, she immediately characterized it as “grassroots,” emphasizing the fact that she didn’t do her due diligence. But celebrating communist-style disruption is par for the course for Maddow, as she was already on record haphazardly celebrating radical anti-ICE protesters harassing Home Depot employees over immigration raids in December 2025, even though the company had nothing to do with them. Rachel Maddow ended her weekly show with an unpaid INFOMERCIAL for the “nonviolent grassroots group Indivisible.” This "grassroots" opposition to a "billionaire-fueled regime" is funded by billionaire George Soros. Organizer Ezra Levin says of ICE: “The secret police force that… pic.twitter.com/pzmat9bY2H — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 29, 2026 “Grassroots?” More like leftist astroturfing personified. The Soros groups involved included a number of chapters of the infamous Indivisible Project, which was responsible for organizing the infamous “No Kings Protests” in 2025 along with other leftist orgs where some had devolved into violence. Soros had fueled at least $7,610,000 into Indivisible between 2017 and 2023. MRC Business also documented the Soros connection via Indivisible to the Tesla fires that occurred earlier in 2025 as a result of violent protestors seething at Elon Musk in its April 22 report Eco-Kingpins: How the Soros Empire Funds and Steers the Global Climate Change Agendas. Also involved in the May Day disruption festivities is the radical Working Families Power / Working Families Party apparatus, which together account for $29,165,000 in Soros funding (the largest sum of the groups tallied) from his philanthropic empire and his super PAC respectively.  Following Trump’s 2024 electoral victory, Working Families Party co-launched a recurring string of protests dubbed “Resist Trump Tuesdays,” where activists would hold rallies in the U.S. Senate local offices. One of its affiliated group WFPower’s primary focuses is radical climate change politics and ensuring the green policies it supports are incorporated at both the federal and state levels. WFPower lists itself as a co-leader who helped “build and steer” the Green New Deal Network (GNDN), a project of the Soros-backed Tides Advocacy group. Soros personally seeded the Network with $525,000 in 2020 around the time that the coalition of at least 14 so-called “social justice organizations” was birthed. Both the Working Families Party, which helped finance communist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, its local chapters, and WFPower were signatories of the “May Day Strong” coalition. Another unironic Soros-funded signatory to the coalition was another radical climate change group called the Sunrise Movement, which was already named in a groundbreaking Capital Research Center investigation as one of a collective of pro-terrorism groups that received at least $80 million from the Soros empire. CRC noted that Sunrise “endorsed the Antifa-linked Stop Cop City campaign, in which activists currently face over 40 domestic terrorism charges and 60 racketeering indictments.” That coalition, noted then-CRC Investigative Researcher Ryan Mauro, “engaged in arson, property damage and violence against law enforcement personnel and utility workers to try to stop construction of this local police training center.” But that’s not all. Following the Trump Justice Department’s announcement of an investigation into the Open Society Foundations based on the CRC report, Sunrise launched an all-out war against the president in part to protect its “major” financier in Soros, according to The Intercept October 2, 2025. Is it really any surprise then that the group would also join another leftist screech fest to cause more disorder? Soros fueled Sunrise’s coffers with at least $2 million between 2019 and 2023.  In addition to the Soros-backed groups, other dishonorable mentions included a number of unions (e.g. Teamsters 492 Local in New Mexico), chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the unhinged climate change group Extinction Rebellion NYC, the Twin Cities Club of the Communist Party USA, in addition to multiple affiliates of Randi Weingarten’s extremist American Federation of Teachers.   Disruption is synonymous with the Soros brand. The late journalist Stefan Kanfer once dubbed Soros in 2017 a “Connoisseur of Chaos,” because he routinely benefits from the mayhem he’s fomented over the decades with his fortune, which now rests under the control of his more unhinged son Alex. As the elder Soros himself said according to The Los Angeles Times in 2004: “Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad.” The “May Day Strong” events can be called many things. “Grassroots” is absolutely not one of them. 

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Josh Johnson reacted on Thursday to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that paved the way for states to get rid of minority-majority districts with all of the scholarly analysis one expects from a comedy show, which is to say none at all. Instead, Johnson just called everyone a racist while also smearing Justice Clarence Thomas as an “Uncle Tom.” Meanwhile, over on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel claimed the goal for Republicans is to ensure that only white people can get elected. Reacting to a clip of Newsmax host Rob Schmitt arguing such districts are not needed anymore because it is not the 1960s, Johnson quipped, “I just thought when racism would be over, I'd hear about it from a civil rights leader or something. Not a guy who looks like a racist version of the dad from Modern Family.”     If Johnson were to be believed, things are actually worse than the 60s, “It almost feels like we're going in reverse. Because the people from the '60s in black and white TV were like, 'Wow, this country is being pretty racist. We should pass some legislation,' and the people crippling that legislation are from now, in 4K. Just so we're all aware, newscasters who would do reports like ‘That Jackie Robinson is the best colored player in the Negro League’ believed in voting rights more than our representatives now.” Johnson had so little faith in his fellow citizens that he argued that without the VRA, things would go back to the way they were pre-VRA, “What these people don't get is that to the extent there's less discrimination now, it's partly because we had the VRA. So, this is like my uncle who threw away his medication because he said his heart wasn't bothering him anymore. And to be fair, he did stop having heart problems because he's dead!” He then turned to Thomas, “And one of the most brain-breaking things about this ruling is it's literally taking power from black people in the South, and it was voted for by a black guy from the South. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is black! He might not know it, but he is black. How could you, of all people vote for this, Clarence? You were like an uncle to all of us! Uncle Clarence Thomas. Uncle Thomas for short. Uncle Tom for shorter.” As for Kimmel, he reacted to the Court’s ruling by declaring, “The Voting Rights Act is, or was, a landmark civil rights law that prohibits racial discrimination when it comes to voting and ensures that all citizens have equal access to the ballot, or at least it did until yesterday. Today the Republican governor of Louisiana is using this ruling as an excuse to delay an election for May 16th, an election that has already begun. Absentee votes have already been cast. But they want to throw that all away and change it. They want to redraw their voting districts.”   Jimmy Kimmel claims "They claim that they are doing this to take race out of the equation by making sure that only white people are elected to office. This country is like a game of Jenga now. One good sneeze and we're done." pic.twitter.com/WlU1GpSobY — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) May 1, 2026   Legal questions about postponing elections aside, Kimmel claimed he knew the real reason for the move, “Imagine if a football team had an injured quarterback and forced the NFL to delay the Super Bowl a few weeks until he got better. That's what this is like. They claim that they are doing this to take race out of the equation by making sure that only white people are elected to office. This country is like a game of Jenga right now. One good sneeze and we're done.” It isn’t the 1960s anymore, and it is insulting to say otherwise. For people like Johnson and Kimmel, “voting rights” has become synonymous with “my preferred candidate winning.” Does anyone really believe Johnson would be calling Thomas an “Uncle Tom” if VRA districts voted Republican? Here are transcripts for the April 30 shows: Comedy Central The Daily Show 4/30/2026 11:06 PM ET JOSH JOHNSON: I just thought when racism would be over, I'd hear about it from a civil rights leader or something. Not a guy who looks like a racist version of the dad from Modern Family. It almost feels like we're going in reverse. Because the people from the '60s in black and white TV were like, "Wow, this country is being pretty racist. We should pass some legislation," and the people crippling that legislation are from now, in 4K. Just so we're all aware, newscasters who would do reports like "That Jackie Robinson is the best colored player in the Negro League" believed in voting rights more than our representatives now. What these people don't get is that to the extent there's less discrimination now, it's partly because we had the VRA. So, this is like my uncle who threw away his medication because he said his heart wasn't bothering him anymore. And to be fair, he did stop having heart problems because he's dead! And one of the most brain-breaking things about this ruling is it's literally taking power from black people in the South, and it was voted for by a black guy from the South. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is black! He might not know it, but he is black. How could you, of all people vote for this, Clarence? You were like an uncle to all of us! Uncle Clarence Thomas. Uncle Thomas for short. Uncle Tom for shorter. *** ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 4/30/2026 11:47 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: The Voting Rights Act is, or was, a landmark civil rights law that prohibits racial discrimination when it comes to voting and ensures that all citizens have equal access to the ballot, or at least it did until yesterday. Today the Republican governor of Louisiana is using this ruling as an excuse to delay an election for May 16th, an election that has already begun. Absentee votes have already been cast. But they want to throw that all away and change it. They want to redraw their voting districts. Imagine if a football team had an injured quarterback and forced the NFL to delay the Super Bowl a few weeks until he got better. That's what this is like. They claim that they are doing this to take race out of the equation by making sure that only white people are elected to office. This country is like a game of Jenga right now. One good sneeze and we're done.

Black conservatives perennially face the slur that they’re “not really black” if they aren’t on the Left. Not only that, they are tools of white racists if they dissent from the NAACP hard line. When the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn a racially gerrymandered congressional district in Louisiana, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was outraged by the local Deseret News in Salt Lake City prominently featuring an Associated Press photo of a lone black protester in front of the court holding a sign that said “Thurgood is watching you, Clarence.” That implied Thurgood Marshall was disappointed in Clarence Thomas. Lee tweeted: “They’re going after Justice Thomas for being conservative while Black.  That’s racist. And it’s very, very wrong.” He added: “It’d be absurd to assume that Justice Alito should agree with the late Justice Brennan because he’s white. It’s racist and offensive for @Deseret to suggest that Justice Thomas should agree with the late Justice Thurgood Marshall because he’s Black.” Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah), a black conservative, seconded that thought: “When the Left can't beat a Conservative Black man's argument, they attack his Blackness.” For example, the Congressional Black Caucus has a membership of 60 Democrats, but none of the five black Republicans in Congress. This kind of slur greeted Thomas when he was nominated for the Supreme Court in the summer of 1991. NBC reporter Bob Herbert uncorked a commentary underlining “David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan leader, is crazy about Clarence Thomas.” Columnist Carl Rowan wrote Thomas had no talent, only the ability to “bootlick” Reagan and Bush, that “If you gave Clarence Thomas a little flour on his face, you’d think you had David Duke talking.”   That same spirit continues today, as the ladies on ABC’s The View were upset with Justice Thomas. Joy Behar complained he “didn’t stick up for his own.” Two years ago, Behar complained that Sen. Tim Scott doesn't understand being black, “the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country and other minorities. He doesn't get it. Neither does Clarence. And that’s why they’re Republicans.” At the time, Sen. Scott tweeted: “When a Black conservative who believes in the future of this nation stands up to be counted, they lose their minds.” The standard leftist line is represented by Sen. Cory Booker, pushing hyperbolic lies. Morning Joe championed his tweet that Thomas & Co. gave “a green light for unconstitutional attacks on the voting rights that generations of Americans bled and died to secure.” But no one has been denied the right to vote. The Left insists that unless blacks get to elect other blacks, they have no voting rights. So what happens when a majority-black district elects a white guy (Steve Cohen in Memphis) or an Indian guy (Shrinivas Thanedar in Detroit)? Did their voting rights disappear? It got worse. Booker told MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire that the Court’s verdict is “eliminating black representation, disenfranchising African-American voters by drawing creative districts that completely take away any kind of representation.” So all 65 black members of Congress are going to lose their seats? Or too many Democrats might? It’s also bizarre that Booker would talk about “drawing creative districts,” when that is exactly what many majority-minority districts look like on a map – as it was in this court case, the Sixth District of Louisiana, which looks like a squashed centipede intersecting the district of Speaker Mike Johnson. Black conservatives aren’t in favor of “eliminating” black legislators or “disenfranchising” black voters. But leftists will villainize them like this because negative campaigning can work. Pretending only black Democrats are black isn’t going away.

When an Elitist Media anchor attempts to fact-check a conservative, there is usually some pre-baked talking point or data piece that they refer to. Not so with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who tried to fact-check Scott Jennings with not much more than “trust me, Bro.” Watch as Cooper tries to suggest, after admitting that he hadn’t seen the segment in question, that U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton didn’t say that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth might face the death penalty for blowing up drug boats: WATCH: @ScottJenningsKY checks Anderson Cooper’s sight-unseen denial of Rep. Seth Moulton saying SECWAR Pete Hegseth might be executed for blowing up drug boats ERIN BURNETT: Seth Moulton, do you think Pete Hegseth committed war crimes? SETH MOULTON: What Hegseth did with the… pic.twitter.com/xUT7ul87Ku — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) May 1, 2026 ERIN BURNETT: Do you believe that the Secretary of Defense is guilty of war crimes? SETH MOULTON: Absolutely. I mean, he's clearly behind the operation to shoot all these boats in the Caribbean when it's very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called “narco terrorists", a term the administration invented to justify this action, are even on the boats. I mean, in fact, there's a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families. There's been press reporting on some of these individuals who've been killed who are clearly not war criminals. And on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back in and hit it again. A double tap, just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage. You know, it's interesting, Erin, another historical analogy. Back in World War II, the Allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing. And guess what the conclusion was. They got executed. Listen to that, Mr. Secretary. (24 HOURS LATER:) SCOTT JENNINGS: Honestly, too, Hegseth here- he gets banged on a lot. I saw Seth Moulton, a Democrat member of Congress, on our air last night, suggesting that he needed to be executed for war crimes. And so there is a lot of rhetorical volleying going on here. And so I give him a little latitude on that because he'-s he's taken a fair amount of incoming, but he's there also to defend the military. He runs the military. He's there to defend the military. And I don't think you could argue with a straight face anything other than they have performed brilliantly. But some of the Democrats have suggested otherwise, and I think that’s what he’s getting at. ANDERSON COOPER: I didn’t hear Moulton last night but I don’t think he said he was-  JENNINGS: He did. He said it to Erin Burnett. I mean- COOPER: All right- That’s just egregious. But it isn’t shocking, either. Offhand comments like these on cable TV often demonstrate the contempt that the Elitist Media display for conservatives. That exchange inadvertently demonstrated both the high degree of trust shown by the media to Democrats, and their natural skepticism of conservatives- regardless of whether they are actually right. Jennings presented Cooper with the fact set, and Cooper’s first reflex was to say "I didn’t watch but still don't believe what you say.” When you see a major story suppressed on the Elitist Media, you can look back at this exchange in order to understand why. It boils down to a dislike of inconvenient and/or counternarrative information.  No one should be shocked, then, that trust in the media is at an all-time low. That is a self-inflicted wound. That's now TWO CNN anchors papering over the fact that a Democrat congressman called for Hegseth to be executed.   

After the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callis, which found that states could not draw congressional maps based on race, the network Thursday morning shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC took the moment to parrot the Democratic Party’s views on the ruling as the reporter’s news packages focused on the backlash. All the networks covered the decision on their morning shows. ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today had their stories in the early portion of the 7 AM lead hour, while the CBS Mornings segment occurred near the start of their second hour. On Good Morning America, co-host Robin Roberts teased the story as “Major Fallout” as the sound of the Louisiana Legislature’s session to pass a new map was heard in the background. The actual news package was presented by senior political correspondent Rachel Scott who called it a “major blow to the landmark Voting Rights Act.” Scott continued, “The high court sided with a group of white voters in Louisiana who argued one of the state's two majority-black districts was improperly drawn and relied too heavily on race.”   On Thursday's Good Morning America, ABC's Rachel Scott parroted the Democrats' viewpoint on the Supreme Court's Louisiana congressional map ruling. She described Justice Kagan's dissent as "scathing" as the justice warned of "far-reaching and grave" consequences. pic.twitter.com/q1EuT2nuax — Nick (@nspin310) April 30, 2026   After she played Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry’s response and read part of Justice Samuel Alito’s ruling, she went straight to the liberal viewpoint. She framed the ruling as a decision that might have brought back “discriminatory voting practices” seen before the civil rights movement: But Democrats argue that ruling effectively cuts the Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 at the height of the civil rights movement, to ban discriminatory voting practices.” Scott then stated, “The ruling also means only one of Louisiana's six congressional districts will now be majority black, even though black voters make up one-third of the state.”  Examining Virginia’s recent redistricting, Scott chatted about how the state may be represented by Democrats ten-to-one in Congress after 46 percent of the electorate voted for Trump in 2024. Scott echoed the Louisiana congressional representative who could lose his seat due to the ruling: "Congressman Cleo Fields represents the district now ruled unconstitutional, saying the decision will make it more difficult for nonwhite candidates to be elected.” She displayed Kagan’s dissent to the six-to-three ruling and called it “a scathing dissent” with “far-reaching and grave” consequences. The end of Scott’s report featured a state Democratic lawmaker’s voice who protested the passage of new maps in Florida. On NBC’s Today, host Craig Melvin teased the segment at the top of the show and described the SCOTUS ruling as “a controversial move as the battle for control of Congress escalates.”  White House correspondent Garrett Haake introduced the story as a “fallout” to the ruling and labeled the ruling as a “conservative majority” decision that said it was unconstitutional for lawmakers to have “allowed race to play a part in government decision-making.”    On NBC's Today, WH correspondent Garrett Haake's news package on SCOTUS's Louisiana map ruling quoted Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and former President Obama, who both worried about democracy in the face of the ruling. In his piece, he also quoted AOC as a voice against… pic.twitter.com/vVhzwh1hHY — Nick (@nspin310) April 30, 2026   After he played a very miniature soundbite from Landry, Haake went straight to the Democrat viewpoint, quoting Georgia Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, who called it a “devastating day in the history of our American democracy,” and former President Obama, who accused the court of “abandoning” the principles of “equal participation” in democracy. Haake also reported on Florida’s redistricting before he quoted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as the voice against gerrymandering, along with a much shorter quote from moderate Republican Mike Lawler: HAAKE: But lawmakers on both sides say this fight won't end until politics are removed from the entire process. OCASIO-CORTEZ: The democratic caucus has tried to pass non-partisan gerrymandering for ten years, Republicans have rejected it. So we have to all abide by the same rules. LAWLER: I don't think there should be guaranteed districts for everybody. On CBS Mornings, there was less of a framed angle to the segment than there was from the other two broadcast networks. Guest host Major Garrett introduced the topic as a “monumental” ruling. He described the ruling:  “To a monumental Supreme Court ruling that could affect the upcoming midterm elections and beyond. The rule ruled Louisiana's Congressional Map with two majority black districts is illegal because it relied too much on race to draw the district lines. A lower court had ordered redistricting, arguing one-third of the black population was not properly represented.”   CBS Mornings had a less framed approach to the Supreme Court's ruling, as Major Garret described the ruling as "monumental." Then, Ed O’Keefe illustrated potential next steps in the new redistricting battle, as he referenced more possible redistricting in blue and red states. pic.twitter.com/3tDzJjTG3k — Nick (@nspin310) April 30, 2026   Ed O’Keefe reported more details of the story and described the makeup of the House majority and gave potential next steps in the new redistricting battle. After Gayle King asked what the Democratic response would be, O’Keefe mentioned possible redistricting in hard-blue states like California, Colorado, and Illinois, which already has a ridiculously gerrymandered map. The transcripts from ABC, NBC, and CBS are below. Click "expand": ABC’s Good Morning America April 30, 2026 7:00:52 AM Eastern ROBIN ROBERTS: Major Fallout. (...) After the Supreme Court's historic decision to limit the landmark Voting Rights Act? Now, the states are racing to withdraw their voting maps and what it means for the midterms. (...) 7:08:24 AM Eastern GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: The fallout now from the Supreme Court's ruling on voting rights, dramatically weakening a key provision of a 60-year-old law from the civil rights era. The decisions could have a significant impact on the midterms. Senior political correspondent Rachel Scott has the story. Good morning, Rachel. RACHEL SCOTT: George, good morning to you. And we're already starting to see the impacts of this. This decision by the high court severely weakens a section of the landmark Voting Rights Act. And this morning, we're already hearing from Republicans calling on states to redraw their congressional maps before the midterm election.  [Cuts to news package] This morning, the Supreme Court delivered a major blow to the landmark Voting Rights Act. The high court sided with a group of white voters in Louisiana who argued one of the state's two majority-black districts was improperly drawn and relied too heavily on race. Louisiana's governor praising the decision. GOV. JEFF LANDRY (R-LA): I think this whole race-baiting - race issue on the redistricting is has been put to bed finally, once and for all. RACHEL SCOTT: Justice Samuel Alito writing “race can only be taken into account when there's evidence that a state intentionally drew its districts to afford minority voters less opportunity because of their race.” But Democrats argue that ruling effectively cuts the Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 at the height of the civil rights movement, to ban discriminatory voting practices. The ruling also means only one of Louisiana's six congressional districts will now be majority black, even though black voters make up one-third of the state. Congressman Cleo Fields represents the district now ruled unconstitutional, saying the decision will make it more difficult for nonwhite candidates to be elected. REP. CLEO FIELDs (D-LA): If you tell me I have to be white to serve in Congress from Louisiana, I can't do nothing about that. SCOTT: The liberal justices agreeing justice Elena Kagan, writing in a scathing dissent that the consequences of the ruling are likely to be far reaching and grave. Saying if other states follow suit, the minority citizens residing there will no longer have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. Kagan, calling it the latest chapter in the majority's now completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.  And just hours after that ruling, Florida Republicans passing a new congressional map that could allow the GOP to gain up to four seats in the midterms. FLORIDA LEGISLATURE MEMBER: The bill passes. SCOTT: Democrats protesting in the state capitol. FLORIDA LEGISLATURE MEMBER: Have all members voted? [Protest yell in background] [Cuts back to live] SCOTT: Any new congressional maps will likely be challenged in court, but Republicans are wasting no time. One challenge, though, for them is that primary season is already well underway, so it's unclear what impact this is going to have on the November midterm elections, but it will certainly impact the future makeup of Congress and elections for 2028 beyond. Robin? (...) NBC’s Today April 30, 2026 7:01:35 AM Eastern CRAIG MELVIN: Landmark ruling. The Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana's voting map. The state’s governor responding with a controversial move as the battle for control of Congress escalates. Straight ahead, what it all means with the crucial midterm elections now just months away. (...) 7:11:29 AM Eastern SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: More to get to, including a key Supreme Court ruling on voting rights ahead of the critical November elections. It could have a major impact on how states redraw their congressional districts.  NBC's Garrett Haake is at the White House with more. Garrett, good morning. GARRETT HAAKE: Reporter: Hey, Savannah, good morning. The court here ruled that a majority-black district in Louisiana, currently controlled by a Democrat, was illegally created and must be redrawn. But the fallout from this ruling could now create significant and long-lasting impacts on both the partisan and racial makeup of Congress. [Cuts to news package] The Supreme Court escalating an intense back and forth battle for control of Congress, with a landmark ruling that's already affecting some elections. The court's conservative majority ruling six-to-three that Louisiana's current congressional map, with two majority African-American districts, is unconstitutional. Saying lawmakers allowed race to play a part in government decision-making. GOV. JEFF LANDRY (R-LA): This is exactly what we'll be looking for, is some clarity and certainty from the courts. HAAKE: Democrats blasting the ruling, arguing it weakens a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, aimed at preventing discrimination on the basis of race. Adding that other majority black districts are now vulnerable to being erased. SEN. RAPHAEL WARNOCK (D-GA): Today is a devastating day in the history of our American democracy. HAAKE: Former President Barack Obama accusing the court of, quote, “abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy.”  President Trump calling the decision a, quote, “big win”, which comes as he's urged GOP-controlled states to redraw their maps to boost Republicans. PRESIDENT TRUMP: Some states don't need to redraw and some do. HAAKE: That push creating a legislative tit for tat. Both parties angling to win more seats, which will be key for the rest of Trump's presidency, with Congress currently narrowly controlled by Republicans.  Eight states have already approved mid-decade map changes. FLORIDA STATE REP.: Drawing lines on the basis of race is wrong and unconstitutional. HAAKE: Most recently, on Wednesday, the Florida GOP making a change that will lead to more Republican-leaning districts. Experts say the real implications will come in future elections. But lawmakers on both sides say this fight won't end until politics are removed from the entire process. REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY): The democratic caucus has tried to pass non-partisan gerrymandering for ten years, Republicans have rejected it. So we have to all abide by the same rules. REP. MIKE LAWLER (R-NY): I don't think there should be guaranteed districts for everybody. [Cuts back to live] GUTHRIE: So, Garrett, how could this ultimately impact the upcoming midterms? HAAKE: Well, it’s all going to depend on how aggressive governors and state legislators really want to be, with state primaries already in full swing. In the short-term, most experts think that only a handful of states will have the combination of both political will and time to change their now, before the midterms. I’d watch Tennessee and South Carolina, both of which have similar majority-black districts that could now potentially legally be redrawn. But that would lead to Democratic states potentially right to respond with new maps of their own. So, I think what seems more likely is that before the next election in 2030, we'll see another months-long process of politicians redrawing maps to try to pick their voters before the voters pick their next set of politicians. Savannah? GUTHRIE: All right, Garrett, thank you very much. (...) CBS Mornings April 30, 2026 8:03:00 AM Eastern MAJOR GARRETT: To a monumental Supreme Court ruling that could affect the upcoming midterm elections and beyond. The rule ruled Louisiana's Congressional Map with two majority black districts is illegal because it relied too much on race to draw the district lines. A lower court had ordered redistricting, arguing one-third of the black population was not properly represented. The Supreme Court decision weakens section 2 of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act and could have a lot of effect on elections this term and in the future. Ed O'Keefe is in Washington to bring us the details. Ed, good morning. ED O’KEEFE: Major, good to see you. Let's remind folks that the current balance of power shows Republicans with a real thin majority there. Ultimately, 218 seats is what you need to control the House of Representatives, and they're both, the two parties, are fighting over where exactly they can pick up seats.  So, let's go through this. Louisiana is the first place we expect it will happen. The governor is reportedly going to suspend next month's primaries to redraw the map and deal with this specific blue district that stretches from New Orleans to Shreveport. If they can do that, that’s one potential Republican seat.  Then go over to Florida, where just yesterday Republican legislators approved a new map that potentially gives the GOP up to four more seats there. They called the special session, anticipating the Supreme Court would rule this way. The other state that may quickly redraw its map is Mississippi. They have four seats in that state, and that big blue one there is the one that may potentially be up for redrawing. It is where most of the state's African-American voters live. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that they can tweak the Voting Rights Act, Republicans say they may try to draw there. Other states would like to do this, major. The problem is the candidate registration deadline is passed, the primary has already been held, so you are looking to 2028 to see a bunch of other states redraw their maps. GAYLE KING: So, hey Ed, before you go, how do you expect the Democrats to respond to all of this? O’KEEFE: First of all, they will file a bunch of lawsuits to try to stop it in the individual states. Second, a bunch of Democrats said, you want to redraw the maps in the Republican-controlled southern states? Well, introduce you to California, Illinois, New York, Colorado, places like that.  You want to redraw there, we have more seats in those states and could potentially redraw those.  And the idea now is: see these two parties potentially fight over this and then maybe at some point there's an ultimatum on trying to do this. That requires voters, though, to get upset, call their congressman and your governor and say, “I don't like this,” and maybe, one day, it stops. KING: All right. To be continued, Ed. Thank you. Always good to see you. (..)