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The Texas Gerrymandering Case Is a Test of the Supreme Court’s Integrity

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President Donald Trump’s quest to gerrymander red states so that the Republican Party cannot lose the House of Representatives in 2026 hit a snag on Tuesday when a federal district court blocked Texas’ redrawn map from taking effect. Republican state legislators designed the infamous map to give their party five new congressional seats. Its passage […]

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Trump-Backed Congressional Maps in Texas Struck Down as Racial Gerrymander

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The Trump administration “explicitly directed the Legislature to redistrict on race,” the court recognized.

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Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Texas Gerrymander

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In a bombshell decision on Tuesday, a federal court in Texas blocked a new congressional map that was created after President Donald Trump demanded that the state redraw district lines to hand Republicans five new seats. “Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map,” wrote Jeffrey Brown, a Trump-appointed district court judge. His […]

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DOJ Joins Republican Party’s Effort to Block California’s New Congressional Maps

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The DOJ has not intervened in other lawsuits regarding gerrymandered maps in GOP-led states.

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Utah Judge May Face Impeachment After Ruling GOP Maps Were Gerrymandered

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Republicans have ignored a voter-backed ballot initiative that aimed to create an independent redistricting commission.

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Californians Back Prop 50 Redistricting Measure by Nearly 2-to-1 Spread — Poll

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Prop 50 suspends the independent redistricting process in California to curtail GOP gerrymandering in other states.

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Obama: California’s Prop 50 Is “Critical” for Democracy

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On Wednesday, former President Barack Obama joined California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a livestream for volunteers in support of Proposition 50, the governor’s redistricting measure, and the sole question on the ballot in the November 4 special election. As I reported last week in a story on the almost unprecedented spending around the measure: Prop […]

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Republicans Are Making One of the Most Gerrymandered States in the Nation Even More Rigged

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The GOP-controlled North Carolina legislature, which has already gone to extreme lengths to undermine the will of the voters, is set to pass a new Trump-inspired gerrymandered congressional map this week that is expected to give Republicans one additional seat heading into the midterms. It will make one of the most gerrymandered states in the […]

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The Unbelievably Expensive Battle For California’s Congressional Map

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If you live in California, like me, chances are you’ve been inundated with political ads and have a recycling bin filled up with mailers urging you to vote for or against Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting proposal in response to Texas’ newly gerrymandered congressional map.  Prop 50 is part of a larger redistricting fight […]

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SCOTUS Case Could Destroy Voting Rights Act and Cement GOP Control of House

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If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is dismantled, the impact will reshape political power across the US, experts say.

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Missouri GOP Gov Approves New Maps Likely to Strip Dems of House Seat in 2026

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Polling shows bipartisan opposition to states engaging in voluntary mid-census redistricting.

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