Political District Maps: GIS + Google
Are you running for office or helping on a campaign? Below is a link to a PDF file with step-by-step instructions for making a Google map that shows the boundary of your district. When someone...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 12/11/19 - Maps
One of the more interesting websites I occasionally visit is CityLab, which, as you can guess from the name, studies cities. At the bottom of the home page it reads,CityLab is committed to telling the...
View ArticleInteractive Federal and State Political District Maps - Some Showing Party...
Over the last couple of weeks I have produced a series of non-partisan interactive map links that can display political districts. This project is a public service and part of my way to “pay it...
View ArticleLewis and Clark Maps
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Sacajawea...
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New Day Cafe - Saturday: Moar Map Pr∅n
Good morning, Newdists.Caturday is here. Diary bird: SuperbStarling— LamprotornissuperbusxSuperb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus)ð¦ð¦ÂðÂÂÂï¸ÂðµðµEurasian Blackcap (Sylvia...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Republicans seek to oust wayward GOP members of Alaska's...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel...
View ArticleOregon Wildfire Maps
Wanted to provide a couple Map resources to track size, direction, and areas impacted by the Wildfires raging in Oregon. The sites below can also be used to track fires all up and down the west coast...
View ArticleInfographic: Voter Registration Deadlines (as of 9/22)
Hi folks! I am working on a simple website that visualizes the upcoming voting deadlines (registration to start), using infographics like the above. It’s a work in progress, but given how soon some...
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Voter Registration Deadlines (as of 9/23)
Here is an updated map of the website I’m working on to visualize voter registration deadlines (hopefully live by end of week). More context on yesterday’s post.There are two main changes today. Here...
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Alaska voter registration ends in 10 days
Alaska, South Carolina, and Rhode Island all close voter registration in about 10 days, plus or minus.In South Carolina you have even less time (Oct. 2) if you need to register in person, and a bit...
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The State of the Race Today in Maps
It was only yesterday that the New York Times broke the story that President Trump only paid $750 in taxes. Tomorrow we get to watch the first debate. Here’s a sneak peak at tomorrow’s...
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VotingDeadlines.com launched (and AZ extended to 10/23)
OK so for the dozen or so of you who have been reading these updates – the voting deadlines website I have been posting about here is finally live, at:https://usa.votingdeadlines.comScreenshot above.I...
View ArticleIntroducing the Daily Kos Elections Congressional District Snapshot
Here at Daily Kos Elections, we live and breathe elections data, and we’ve collected a ton of it (most of which you can find here). But when you want to know more about a specific congressional...
View ArticleOur maps show the last time every county voted Democratic or Republican in a...
With the 2020 election finally in the history books, you’ve probably already seen your fair share of county-level maps, whether it’s just the standard red/blue map of results or maps of each county’s...
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Morning Open Thread: Something Forgotten – Cartography for Beginners
.Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who choose the topic for the day's posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful,...
View ArticleWhere does North Carolina live? We crunched the numbers.
Tables and charts can only tell part of the story, so we crunched the numbers on North Carolina’s population and came up with this 3-D population density graph.You can read almost all of North...
View ArticleThis week on The Brief: Census data and the coming decade of GOP gerrymanders
After a brief hiatus, a new episode of The Brief dropped this week, and host Kerry Eleveld was joined by guest host Cara Zelaya to dive into the details of what’s at stake with new Census data set to...
View ArticleThis week on The Brief: Building political engagement year-round in North...
Welcome to another recap of The Brief! Joining hosts Markos Moulitsas and Cara Zelaya this week were guests Marcus Bass, deputy director for the North Carolina Black Alliance, and La’Meshia...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: mapping Soda versus Pop
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music,...
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(Organizing) battlefield Georgia, How you can help and why its Purple
If there’s one big, famous success story for dems in 2020, it’s Georgia going blue for president after a couple decades of solid red. Than, in a senate race featuring a couple hilariously entertaining...
View ArticleDo You Know Your Geography?
I suppose I might be referring to Political Geography; the names and locations of places on earth as represented by maps.I unwisely had a cup of coffee after dinner last night. I drink a couple cups of...
View ArticleDavid Nir on the Michelangelo Signorile Show: Democrats must fight fire with...
Daily Kos Elections Editor David Nir joined Michelangelo Signorile on his show earlier this week to discuss gerrymandering and offer updates on how map-drawing is going in several states, including...
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2022 House Election Forecast shows Democrats have a Fighting Shot at Winning...
For a long time, political pundits have been framing the 2022 Congressional Elections as the GOP's to lose. Their estimation of Democrats’ odds was quite low. Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy...
View ArticleHighlights from The Downballot: State supreme court elections and major...
This week on The Downballot, cohosts David Beard and David Nir chatted with Daily Kos Contributing Editor David Jarman, who walked us through district by district changes that redistricting has made to...
View ArticleSupreme Court Refuses to Stay Court-drawn Congressional Maps in NC and PA
The Supreme Court has just refused to stay congressional maps for North Carolina and Pennsylvania in a decision that is good news for Democrats in both states (and for fair voting and redistricting...
View ArticleHighlights from The Downballot: North Carolina, South Korea, and why you...
This week on The Downballot, hosts David Nir and David Beard discussed updates from North Carolina, where there are currently many moving pieces, and talked with guest Amanda Litman, co-founder and...
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Ukraine update: A graphic display of the media's shifting narrative on...
Markos has already written at length on lies, damned lies, and battlefield maps. There’s a great tendency in this war to reflect Russian control not as something restricted to a few villages tagged in...
View ArticleKansas Redistricting Court Report (Part 2)
The recap of the morning opening statements was detailed here.April 4th, 12:20PM (Three witnesses scheduled)Monday afternoon begins with the first expert, Jonathan Rodden, a Professor of Political...
View ArticleKansas Redistricting Court Report (Part 7)
Monday’s trial recaps are here and here. Tuesday’s trial recaps are here and here. Wednesday’s trial recaps are here and here.The trial took a four day break and returns a little lighter on the...
View ArticleHighlights from The Downballot: Primaries heating up and why House Democrats...
This week on The Downballot, cohosts David Nir and David Beard talked about the bizarre situation unfolding with redistricting in Florida; looked into how Trump has inserted himself into even more GOP...
View ArticleHighlights from The Downballot: Confusion in New York over redistricting and...
This week on The Downballot, cohosts David Beard and David Nir analyzed a bizarre ruling by New York's top court striking down the state's new congressional and state Senate maps; explained why Utah...
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Utah Democrats endorse McMullin. Good idea? Bad idea? Let's see some numbers.
A couple people have posted this: instead of a dem running, Utah democrats have endorsed Evan McMullin, a non Trump independent who leans Republican. Reactions in comments range from “democrats...
View ArticleLets geek out a little bit about maps (Ukraine)
I realize I’ve gone on a bit in comments on the “Ukraine Updates” about maps, lately, without defining things. And I’ve realized that there are probably some things about maps that most people don’t...
View ArticleHighlights from The Downballot: Alaska shocker, NRSC in chaos, and 2020...
This week on The Downballot, we take a look at what is happening. Join hosts David Nir and David Beard as they delve into the wild results from Alaska's special election for its lone House seat, money...
View ArticleSagebrush doesn't vote. But what if it did? Introducing the 2022...
Traditional maps of election results always have the problem of over-emphasizing the results in parts of the country where there are more cows than people. To get around that problem, Daily Kos...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Daily Kos presents the 2022 edition of the best-ever map of...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Cara Zelaya, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James...
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A 3D look at the terrain of Svatove
I’ve been following the excellent updates on Ukraine here everyday. For example, here was a map I saw of the Svatove area earlier today:xThe Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing on...
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A Quiz ... About the completely manufactured Cook Prediction Map
Okay, so here’s Dave Wasserman’s estimate of the final House result for Tuesday: Pretty grim stuff, no? The Cook Report (where Wasserman calls home) has spent the entire election season breathlessly...
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Floods are coming to your community and your home may be in trouble
New data from American Inequality reveals hidden flood riskThe way that FEMA currently measures flood risk drastically undercounts the dangers of flooding in certain communities. FEMA does not...
View ArticleGhosts
UPDATE: Thank you all for the wonderful and thoughtful comments. Had I any idea this little post would get any traction, I would have given it a second pass before posting! I have since made some minor...
View ArticleFive more locations that once used racist slur for Native American women are...
In March 2021, Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico was confirmed as secretary of the Department of the Interior. The move also made Haaland the first American Indian to serve in a presidential Cabinet....
View ArticleSlava Ukraini: A Republican vote to defund Ukraine would come at their own peril
A consistent set of foot-dragging talking points on Ukraine has been percolating through the Republican infoscape—and leaking into the general media environment recently, whether from governors or your...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Our new maps show how many Ukrainians and Eastern Europeans...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Cara Zelaya, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James...
View ArticleMaps present a distorted view of the world, but it's a lot worse than you think
This thread by Substacker Tomas Pueyo literally blew my mind. It’s exploded. In pieces around my living room. And not because I didn’t know that maps do present a distorted view of reality, but because...
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Mariupol - The Things They Left Behind
CONTENT WARNING: This diary revisits and focuses on the destruction of a peaceful city in Ukraine. There are no graphic depictions of individual human suffering, but one could argue the pictures...
View ArticleWhat a new Black-majority district in Louisiana might look like following...
Following Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that un-froze a lower court decision ordering Louisiana to draw a new congressional map, the state is back on track to add a second district where Black voters...
View ArticleHilarious Russian Map Fail at BRICS Summit in South Africa
Either this was a brilliant hack on the part of Ukraine, or someone in the Russian Embassy in South Africa is in seriously deep doo-doo. This map released to ostensibly “celebrate” the hoped-for...
View ArticleCan we stop using "Red state" vs "Blue state" maps here?
I read Daily Kos...daily. I rarely post but I wanted to suggest that we all stop using those misleading Red State vs Blue State maps and move to a more nuanced view like the one above. We are simply...
View ArticleDetroit City Council redistricting update
There are more maps to draw in Detroit. The City Council has always consisted of nine members, but for the past few years, seven of them have been elected by district.Supposedly this makes City Council...
View ArticleLouisiana passes new House map with second Black-majority district
Louisiana's Republican-run legislature approved a new congressional map pushed by GOP Gov. Jeff Landry on Friday, all but assuring Landry will sign it. The new plan creates a second Black-majority...
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