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Weekly space is on. Come join the wave.

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5 months

For every 10 likes, I'll ask ChatGPT to expand the size of the House:

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Oops, I accidentally posted this on the same day the House of Representatives is trending. Hope no one retweets it.

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The world has changed so much since 1929. Our population in the US has nearly tripled while our House of Representatives has remained capped at 435 members. We've blocked the representation of the many to favor the squabbles of the few. It's time for change.

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Oops, I did it again but now with population 😭

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1 year

Oops, I accidentally posted this on the same day the House of Representatives is trending. Hope no one retweets it.

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@DistrictHusker True. Really drives the point home, doesn't it?

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435 is arbitrary. 435 is unrepresentative. 435 has to go.

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3 years

We have a once in a decade opportunity in 2021. We must fix what they broke in 1929. We must uncap the House.

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7 months

Explain how a single person can truly represent both of these communities in Congress.

Dave Wasserman

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NEW: a federal court just selected Alabama's new congressional map, featuring an additional Black majority district. Under the remedial plan, #AL02 swings from Trump +29 to Biden +12, virtually assuring a Dem pickup.

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@AaronValinski Are you… are you thinking about the Senate?

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435 is arbitrary. 435 is unrepresentative. 435 breaks the constitution. 435 needs to go.

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We really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really need to expand the size of the House

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7 months

TRUTH. 1. We need to uncap the House. 2. We need to uncap the House. 3. We need to uncap the House. 4. We need to uncap the House. 5. We need to uncap the House. 6. We need to uncap the House. 7. We need to uncap the House. 8. We need to uncap the House.

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1 year

A map of the states that would benefit if we uncapped the House:

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I didn't even ask for a futuristic concept but I'm loving the "I am the Senate" vibes

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Asked ChatGPT to densify the City of Representatives even more (plus added American symbolism because it was looking bleak)

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1 year

Make it bigger to make it better! Thank you, @RBReich for talking about this important issue!

Robert Reich

@RBReich

1 year

It used to be normal for the House of Representatives to expand. It wasn’t until 1929 that Congress arbitrarily capped the size of the House at 435 members. Back then, each House member represented roughly 200,000 people. Today, that number is 760,000. Expand the House.

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435. Not in the Constitution. Not what the Framers envisioned. Not working for the American people.

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6 months

With 5 times the population of the UK, why do Americans have 1/7 the representation per person compared to their British counterparts?

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Not sure why this setup would get chosen but I don't hate it

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With Facebook and Instagram down, it would be a shame if everyone reposted this image

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3 months

THEY CAPPED THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN 1929 AND BROKE THE CONSTITUTION

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7 months

Sorry, this needs to be said: The size of the House of Representatives is too small.

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9 months

Alaska should have more than one district. Delaware should have more than one district. North Dakota should have more than one district. South Dakota should have more than one district. Vermont should have more than one district. Wyoming should have more than one district.

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Now we're cooking. Not sure which state elected those planets though (probably Michigan 😓)

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When I started this page 3 years ago, there was little to no effort to uncap the Hose. Since then, this page gained over 6,000 followers, two bills were introduced to Congress, and we know candidates + politicians at many levels who support us. And we're just getting started.

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Starting to get wildly futuristic at this point. ChatGPT says this should hold over 500,000 representatives!

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The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 has been disastrous for our nation. It must go.

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7 months

The size of the House of Representatives was never supposed to be a zero-sum game. It's not coincidence that the Census and apportionment happen every 10 years. As the country grows with people, so too should the House representing the will of the People.

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Congress would rather have this monstrosity exist than expand the House

umichvoter 🏳️‍🌈

@umichvoter

4 months

the new Louisiana 6th district- Biden +20

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It’s true. The EC is broken because of Congress’s failure to expand the House in over a century. We don’t need to abolish the electoral college when we can make it work how the Framers intended.

The Intellectualist

@highbrow_nobrow

7 months

🚨We Can End the Electoral College by Congressional Reapportionment - It doesn't require an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Electoral College has long been a focal point of criticism by many who believe that it undermines American democracy in favor of minority tyranny.…

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A motion to vacate has only been voted on one other time in US history. The last time was 1910 but that motion failed. With this motion to vacate passing, maybe we should do something else that we haven't done for over 100 years: expand the size of the House.

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The Framers didn't institute term limits for members of Congress but they also didn't expect the House to get capped at 435 members. The cap on the House systemically locks out new voices and new generations.

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

@AndrewYang

7 months

How do you feel about term limits for members of Congress?

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Everyone learned why the Senate has 100 members in school. Why did almost no one learn why the House only has 435?

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SPACE. We couldn't keep everyone on Earth anymore, so this is where we went

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The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 that created the cap on the size of the House is anything but permanent. We are on a mission to repeal it, and we can do so without a constitutional amendment.

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1 year

Representative Casten laying it out as clear as day: "Because if we are the House of Representatives, we should make sure that all of us represent, as close as we can, the same number of people."

Rep. Sean Casten

@RepCasten

1 year

The second bill would expand the size of the House of Representatives based on US population growth and reduce disparities in district size across states.

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The need to expand the size of the House came with the need for a nice ceiling fresco

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Correct. 435 was set in 1911 when the population of the US was 92,000,000 people. Today, the US population is over three times larger with 330,000,000 million people. The Framers created the House with the expectation it would grow with the population. It hasn't.

Billy (Dougvember)

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@UncapTheHouse 435 isn't enough, what?

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Now we are getting somewhere, and the ceiling is becoming incredible

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1 year

The Constitution allows us to expand the House without a constitutional amendment because the Framers wanted us to expand it every 10 years. Why, then, have we not expanded the House in over 100 years?

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5 months

The House of Representatives and, consequently, the Electoral College, haven't been properly sized since 1911. Wondering why you feel underrepresented in Congress? This is why.

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Uncapping the House is the constitutional issue of our lifetimes. The total US population has grown three times larger since we last expanded the House in 1911. Americans lack proper representation. We’re building a movement to change that. Join us.

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Uncap the House is a movement to expand the size of the House of Representatives by 2029, the 100-year anniversary of the cap. Join us.

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RT this if you know that expanding the size of the House doesn't require a constitutional amendment

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A congressional district in Delaware should not contain 400,000 more people than a congressional district in Montana.

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Expanding the city and just replicating the capital building over and over. We must be well over a billion representatives at this point.

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6 months

Constitutional amendments are cool and all but we can uncap the House with just a bill.

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4 months

The Framers never expected a House where each member represents 760,000 people. We must fix the House.

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7 months

While everyone sits around wondering what happens next in the House of Representatives, we are still building a movement to uncap the House by 2029, the 100-year anniversary of the cap on the House. If you support this movement, repost this and we'll make sure we follow you.

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Thank you, @RepDavidTrone : "The House of Representatives would immediately increase to 585 members and be tied to population increases each census, keeping in line with the original intent of our nation’s founders. This would lead to better representation, smaller districts, and…

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

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3 months

Maryland Senate candidate proposes expanding the size of the House of Representatives. YES!

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The whole point of having a House and a Senate is for them to serve two different functions: The House represents the people and was designed to grow as the population grows; while the Senate represents the states. The cap on the House completely destroyed its function.

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5 months

ChatGPT is starting to build the gallery up instead of elongating it. Interesting design choice.

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2 years

Expanding the House is the most feasible option to restore our representative democracy that does not require a constitutional amendment.

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1 year

👀👀👀

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3 years

Representatives per people in the lower legislative body: 🇨🇭 1/ ~40,000 🇬🇧 1/ ~98,000 🇨🇦 1/ ~103,000 🇩🇪 1/ ~114,000 🇫🇷 1/ ~115,000 🇿🇦 1/ ~121,000 🇯🇵 1/ ~271,000 ... 🇺🇸 1/ ~733,000 Uncap the House.

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The House is basically its own planet at this point.

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7 months

When I started this account, there was not a single bill in Congress to uncap the size of the House. Fast forward to now, and we have two bills: one introduced by @RepCasten , and the other by @repblumenauer . If you don't think this movement is growing, you're wrong.

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We're really packing them in there, and we had to redo the ceiling again because why not?

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A return to the old concept but with more entire galaxies video calling in now

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3 years

Abolish the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929

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Space Colony of Representatives

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Countries that have expanded their lower legislative body in the past century: 🇯🇵 :✅ 🇦🇺 :✅ 🇩🇪 :✅ 🇮🇪 :✅ 🇨🇦 :✅ 🇬🇧 :✅ 🇿🇦 :✅ 🇫🇷 :✅ 🇲🇽:✅ 🇮🇹 :✅ 🇺🇸 :❌

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The size of the House is too small to represent the diverse needs of our communities.

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Sure looks like we can fit a lot more people in the House than we currently do. State of the Union: We Need to Uncap the House

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5 months

I believe we've started using some sort of interstellar technology to achieve a larger size.

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9 months

Sup, weirdos

Gamma Factor

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9 months

The single weirdest thing about Twitter is that lots of people on here are deeply committed to the idea that there should be 5,000 members of the house

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2 years

It doesn’t get said enough: the reason you are dissatisfied with Congress is because it’s too small to properly represent you — not too big.

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Found a large planet where they can all meet and created an entire city to fit everyone.

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We’ll keep saying it until it’s clear: We’re not uncapping the House because it favors one political party over another. We’re uncapping the House because it favors the American people.

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3 years

We really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really need to uncap the House

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6 months

Uncapping the House is not the silver bullet to end all of our problems. But it is an easy solution with deep historical roots for many of the problems we are currently seeing

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1 year

When we started this account about two years ago, there was not a single bill that would uncap the House. Two years later, we have TWO different bills. The movement grows.

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7 months

(1913 ➡️ Today) US Population: 97,225,000 ➡️ 331,900,000 Size of the House of Representatives: 435 ➡️ 435

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7 months

Americans alive today have never lived under the Electoral College system as it was envisioned. We broke the EC when we stopped expanding the House in 1911.

Pew Research Center

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7 months

More Americans would prefer the president be decided by popular vote (65%) than by the current Electoral College system (33%).

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3 years

I feel the sadness coming on

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5 months

Why would anyone take on the effort to expand the Senate or abolish the Electoral College (both of which require a constitutional amendment) before finishing the effort to expand the House (which only requires a simple bill)?

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Here's what we know: 1. The cap on the House was an arbitrary action that has had a negative impact on the US over the past century; and 2. We can fix it without a constitutional amendment.

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Amendments are cool, but we could uncap the House with just a bill.

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There should be WAY more districts electing representatives tonight. The reason they are not is because of a law from 1929. More districts = more competition = better representation in Congress for all Americans

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1 year

Feeling wild. RT this video and we’ll follow you

Rep. Sean Casten

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1 year

The second bill would expand the size of the House of Representatives based on US population growth and reduce disparities in district size across states.

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The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 is outdated and must go.

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We need to expand the House of Representatives. Pass it on.

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This page has 6,000 followers and we are building a movement to uncap the House by 2029, the 100-year anniversary of the cap on the House. We're gearing up for the next phase. What would you like to see during the next phase of this movement?

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Quick reminder that we would have over 1,300 representatives if we had the same person-to-representative ratio that we had in the House before we capped it in 1929.

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1 year

Tomorrow, the 118th Congress is sworn in. Also tomorrow, Congress could expand the size of the House as was the tradition of our nation until 1929 when that Congress refused to follow the intent of the Framers.

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5 months

Another day, another post where people comment “that’s why the House of representatives exists” without realizing that the cap on the House broke this dynamic.

James Hughes

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5 months

Population of California: 39,538,223 Population of Wyoming: 578,803 The 40 million people who live in the 22 smallest states get 44 senators to represent their views. The 40 million people in California get two. This is undemocratic and an unfair representation of voters.

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Expanding the House is by far the best structural fix we can make to our government without needing to amend the constitution.

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It is not a radical idea to follow the Framers’ intent for the House of Representatives. It’s a radical idea not to.

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3 years

Let’s be honest, the common person cannot run and win in a district of 750,000 people. Expanding the House = Expanding local organizing.

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Because congressional districts are too big

James🗳

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Im sorry this district sucks Why are wealthy suburbs of Raleigh shoved in with rural areas and Goldsboro

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(1929 ➡️ Today) US Population: 121,767,000 ➡️ 331,000,000 Size of the House of Representatives: 435 ➡️ 435

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The size of congressional districts between states should not vary. One person, one vote.

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2 years

I know it sounds odd but we actually need more Representatives in Congress. Only 435 Representatives in the House is outdated and limits the voice of the People to have a say in the direction of their government.

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435 is not some magic number. It’s not in our Constitution. It’s not a limit our Founders didn’t want us to cross. It’s random, arbitrary, and signifies a century-long failure of Congress to meet its Constitutional duty to apportion the House. We must enlarge it.

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We are systematically diluting our representation while gerrymandering away competitive districts. Expanding the House is a necessary fix.

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No state that increases in population over 10 years should lose representation in the House of Representatives.

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2 months

In 1913, Congress set the number of Representatives at 435 when the US population was 92,000,000. It’s been 435 Representatives ever since. Today, the US population is over 331,000,000.

Tristan Snell

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In 1869, Congress set the number of Supreme Court Justices at 9 — in part because there were 9 circuits at the time. It’s been 9 Justices ever since. Today, there are 13 circuits.

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Need to fit more representatives in the House? Just bring in entire planets to fit everyone!

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The Framers of the Constitution set up a system with the belief that power in the hands of a few individuals is a one-way ticket to tyranny. At one Representative in the House per 750,000 people, the Framers would be begging us to uncap it.

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