{"id":22904,"date":"2026-05-18T04:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/crush-their-souls-democrats-ditch-the-niceties-after-gop-gains-upper-hand-on-redistricting-3\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:21:17","slug":"crush-their-souls-democrats-ditch-the-niceties-after-gop-gains-upper-hand-on-redistricting-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/crush-their-souls-democrats-ditch-the-niceties-after-gop-gains-upper-hand-on-redistricting-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crush their souls\u2019: Democrats ditch the niceties after GOP gains upper hand on redistricting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High-minded appeals to good government are out. Ruthless partisan tactics are in&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/14\/house-democrats-redistricting-hardball-00920090\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-minded appeals to good government are out. Ruthless partisan tactics are in&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}