Dear Blue State Leadership, If You Are to Outmaneuver the Trump Regime, You Must Follow My Prescriptions and Stop Posturing: Instead Act
- john raymond
- Aug 11
- 3 min read
The Trump regime is not playing by the old rules, and its state-level allies are moving with the speed and precision of an entrenched wartime machine. In Texas, they are pursuing mid-decade gerrymanders calculated to lock in House control for the 2026 cycle.
Governor Gavin Newsom’s recent letter threatening to respond with a partisan redraw in California is rhetorically sharp, but it remains posture—not execution. The Trump regime understands the difference. Blue-state leadership must also, and must stop mistaking public statements for operational countermeasures.
Evidence
Texas GOP action: Beginning August 3, 2025, Texas Republicans, aligned with the Trump regime’s congressional strategy, initiated a mid-decade redistricting push projected to yield as many as five additional GOP House seats. Texas Democrats fled the state to block quorum—buying time, but not stopping the plan.
Newsom’s counter-threat: On August 11, 2025, Newsom proposed that California would “neutralize” Texas’s gains by remapping its own congressional districts—if Texas proceeded. California’s current independent redistricting framework, however, is locked in by voter initiative, meaning that any override requires a special ballot measure and subsequent litigation clearance.
Procedural asymmetry: Texas can redraw maps via its GOP-controlled legislature in weeks; California’s path, even if initiated immediately, would consume months and risk missing 2026 filing deadlines.
Analysis Via the Raymond Method
Pillar One — Regime Security
For the Trump regime, House control is a survival mechanism. Mid-decade gerrymandering in Texas is a straightforward extension of that imperative. The aim is to pre-load the 2026 map to make flipping the chamber nearly impossible, regardless of popular vote outcomes. The Texas operation is already underway; delay benefits them exclusively.
Pillar Two — Asymmetric Warfare
The Trump regime’s state allies exploit speed, procedural advantage, and legal positioning to move first and force Democrats into reactive postures. Newsom’s letter is a reactive signal, not a preemptive strike. Asymmetric defense demands operational readiness before the opponent commits, not after. Without synchronized blue-state counteraction, the Trump regime will bank gains before any deterrent can be deployed.
Pillar Three — Byzantine Traitor-General
When blue-state leadership threatens without acting, it invites the Trump regime to call the bluff. In a minimax frame, the regime will assume that any posture lacking rapid, visible execution is safe to disregard. This is not merely a missed opportunity—it is a structural invitation to further encroachments in redistricting, voting laws, and federal-state legal confrontations.
Prescriptions for Blue-State Leadership
Immediate Ballot Measure Activation File and qualify a November 2025 measure authorizing legislative redistricting for 2026–2030. This must happen now to fit within the candidate filing calendar.
Litigation Readiness Assemble multi-state legal teams to pre-file both defensive and offensive suits—challenging GOP maps in red states and shielding new maps in blue states from Trump-aligned challenges.
Multi-State Coordination Align California, New York, Illinois, and other blue-state governments in a formalized map-offset compact. The Trump regime must face the prospect of losing in blue states every seat it gains in red states.
Public Narrative Control Frame these actions not as partisan aggression, but as direct defense against the Trump regime’s calculated effort to lock in minority rule. The electorate must see this as counter, not hypocrisy.
Calendar Discipline All actions must be synchronized with the regime’s operational clock, not the comfort zone of state bureaucracies. Missing the 2026 window cedes the battlefield entirely.
Implications
Blue-state leadership has been too comfortable in the politics of statement-making. The Trump regime is waging political warfare, not political debate. In that environment, posturing is capitulation in slow motion. If blue states fail to translate rhetoric into coordinated, executable counteraction, the regime will enter 2027 with a locked-in House majority, increased state-level dominance, and a clear signal that no meaningful resistance exists outside of Washington.
You must internalize the fact that the Trump regime does not bluff when regime security is at stake. Neither should blue-state leadership. The only deterrence the regime respects is action—calendared, coordinated, and credible. If you are serious about defending the republic, you must follow these prescriptions and stop posturing.
The time to act is now, before the maps are drawn and the game is over.
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