Find charities, news outlets, podcasts, rights groups or other entities that match your message and support them.
Donate money, time, and whatever else you can to help.
I think everyone understands that being loud might draw the wrong attention, so do what you can to support the ones that you want as much as you are able.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-LEBANON/JOURNALIST/akveabxrzvr/index.html
I believe this is the article you are referring to.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-LEBANON/JOURNALIST/akveabxrzvr/index.html
Here is the article discussing the journalist. Reuters made an incredible effort to show, with evidence, how directly targeted the journalist group was.
Gerrymandering is complicated. Simplest version; it involves diluting the vote of smaller groups who likely would have been able to vote in representation into the government if not for the interference.
This is done by breaking up that voting group among groups that favor the manipulating party.
The wiki on it does a good job of providing the details.
You are right that anything done can be undone BUT it requires the same level of governmental control. And if you can gerrymander the heck out of the voters, you can pass almost anything.
Note: it is not a purely 'popular' vote. That would bypass gerrymandering. Gerrymandering depends on block voting.
Game wise: started with Pathfinder package in 2016, origin315. Now I'm quite a bit further in... I like the ships that have utility vs combat ships... And there are quite a few of those.
Personally: sold a house, moved to apartment, bought a house, moved cities twice, made 3 career changes and in a fairly decent spot now. Very different from where I was.
There were several things that changed since winter storm Yuri.
-Many fuel providers stopped being cheap and added heat trace to equipment so it doesn't freeze (a legal requirement the Texas removed years ago. And of course only work if it has power).
-ERCOT established a list of how much fuel is being produced behind each meter. So next time they start shutting off power to "low priority" industrial sector, they don't accidentally shut off their entire fuel supply ...again....
-Data Centers, cryptominers and other massive power sinks are often part of demand management programs. A data center gets paid $$ for every watt they are willing to give up in an emergency.
There are various programs that offer different levels of notice; 24hr, 12hr, 1hr, 15min, no notice. The less notice the better the pay.
Major cryptominers love it; they get paid hundreds of thousands of $$ just to agree to the contract. And if a year goes by and ERCOT only shuts them off once for 15 minutes, then they still get the money. And for every min they are shut off, they get even more $$.
For some industries, a power interruption is costly. For cryptominers it is a minor inconvenience.
Not a fan with how short sighted things still are here, but there are some programs in place now.
Source: Am electrical engineer in the Texas industrial sector.