A son of Catholic High and LSU Law, two years into elected office, has made himself
the errand-boy of an agenda designed to take power back from Black voters, queer kids,
pregnant women, and the city of New Orleans.
The pelican feeds her young from her own chest. This man feeds off of ours.
A recall petition is only valid if it is signed by a qualified elector of the voting area — in this case, Louisiana House District 68. The East Baton Rouge Registrar of Voters will not count a signature from someone registered outside the district. Before you sign, confirm you are in HD 68, and when you sign, you will need to enter your ward and precinct alongside your signature.
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The case for recalling Dixon Wallace McMakin is not that he voted for bills we disagree with. The case is that he has, in the space of two years, made himself the youngest and most reliable instrument of a statewide consolidation of power that decimates East Baton Rouge, overrides the electorate of New Orleans, and re-draws the judiciary whiter than the people it serves.
He is District 68's representative in name. In practice he represents the Governor's mansion, the Attorney General's office, and a future campaign ladder that — after this week — no longer includes Congress.
I'm going to vote for this today, I'm going to vote for it tomorrow. And I'm going to vote for this bill the rest of my life. — Rep. McMakin, on the House floor, presenting SB 256 to eliminate New Orleans Clerk-elect Calvin Duncan
Every item below is drawn from the public legislative record and contemporaneous reporting.
Presented SB 256 on the House floor to abolish the Orleans Parish Clerk of Criminal Court just before Calvin Duncan — a wrongfully convicted, exonerated man elected by 60%+ of New Orleans voters — was to take office.
His own bills merge Orleans Parish's civil, criminal, and juvenile district courts into a single "41st JDC," eliminating judgeships in an overwhelmingly Black, overwhelmingly Democratic city. The Louisiana ACLU called the package a "racist grab on New Orleans courts."
Act 243 (HB 124, 2025) redrew EBR's district court into two 7-seat subdistricts plus an at-large seat — a structure now being challenged in federal court as a violation of the 1986 Clark v. Edwards consent decree.
The EBR subdistrict of the 1st Circuit currently has one Black judge and three white judges despite sharing identical demographics with the parish. Legislators — McMakin among them — have year after year declined to fix it.
From the beginning he has supported St. George — the white-flight breakaway city approved by voters with his public blessing — which has drained the general fund of the City of Baton Rouge and is now being threatened as a template for breaking apart the EBR school system on May 16.
McMakin supports Louisiana's abortion regime as written, treating the absence of rape or incest exceptions as a feature, not a flaw. Under the law he champions, an eight-year-old raped by her father is required to carry the pregnancy to term. He does not disclaim that outcome. He endorses it.
Consistent votes against LGBTQ+ protections including measures that force schools to deadname trans students. Opposed to marriage equality as a matter of stated policy.
The LSU Mounds are on the National Register of Historic Places and among the oldest human-made structures in the Western Hemisphere. He does not treat their preservation as a priority worth a vote.
He filed the very first House bill of the session to open Louisiana's constitution up for rewriting — the same project Jeff Landry failed to pass in 2024, resurrected by his Baton Rouge understudy.
Pushing legislation framed as "transparency" that in practice entrenches HOA boards' authority over the people who live under them.
Because what Louisiana needs, apparently, is for DMV visits to triple.
Announced his bid for the open 5th Congressional District in January 2026 — two years into a four-year House term. Withdrew in April after Trump endorsed Blake Miguez. He is now serving the remainder of the term he was trying to leave.
McMakin is not the author of this agenda. He is its errand-runner. When Baton Rouge voters ask themselves "whose priorities is my representative advancing," the answer is everyone except them.
Louisiana's legislative maps — including those that produced House District 68 — have been the subject of protracted federal litigation under Robinson v. Ardoin and Nairne v. Ardoin. A federal district court in Nairne ruled Louisiana's state house and senate maps violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voting strength.
Put plainly: the district Dixon McMakin represents exists in the shape it does because Louisiana declined to draw a map that would have given Black voters a fair chance to elect a representative of their choice. He is at the table, in part, because someone else was kept from it.
He has done nothing in two years to treat that fact as a moral obligation. He has done the opposite — voted, again and again, to entrench the same logic elsewhere.
§ 1300.1 — Who can be recalled: "Any public officer, excepting judges of the courts of record, may be recalled in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter." A state representative is an eligible public officer.
§ 1300.2 — How it starts: A chairman and vice-chairman file a copy of the petition (on the Secretary of State's approved form) with the Louisiana Secretary of State. No signatures may be collected until the Secretary endorses the petition.
§ 1300.2(B) — The threshold: Because House District 68 has more than 25,000 and fewer than 100,000 qualified electors, 25% of qualified electors must sign within 180 days of filing.
§ 1300.3 — Certification: The East Baton Rouge Registrar of Voters certifies the signature count. If the threshold is met, the petition is forwarded to the Governor, who must issue an election proclamation within 15 days.
§ 1300.1 — Timing: A recall petition may not be accepted if fewer than 6 months remain in the officer's term.
The exact number is computed by the EBR Registrar of Voters against the certified voter rolls on the date the petition is filed. The 11,000 figure is an estimate and should be verified with the Registrar before launch.
Louisiana recognizes only one recall petition form: the one approved by the Attorney General and issued by the Secretary of State. The PDF below is the official, current version (Rev. 08/25). It is the only document that will be accepted by the EBR Registrar of Voters.
Do not modify it. Each signer must personally sign, print an address, enter their ward and precinct, and date beside their signature. If you don't know your ward/precinct, use tool #2 above before you sign.
⬇ Official Recall Petition (PDF)The millennial generation inherited a Louisiana where the people our age who stayed did so because we loved it. We loved the food, the music, the rivers, the Sundays, the cousins, the ancient mounds on the LSU campus, the fact that our capital city sits in the same parish as our state university.
Dixon McMakin is embarrassing his generation, his law school, his hometown, and his state. He is not building anything. He is dismantling — clerks' offices, courthouse districts, consent decrees, judgeships, school systems, the bodies of little girls, the dignity of queer kids.
Congress was his exit ramp. That ramp is closed. He is stuck — and so are we, unless we act. A recall returns the question to the people who are actually supposed to answer it. It tells every ambitious young lawyer in Baton Rouge: use this seat to serve, or lose it.
Louisiana has produced some of the finest public servants this country has ever seen.
Dixon Wallace McMakin is not one of them.