The gains would largely be made in 10 Southern-states with GOP-controlled legislatures, a new report finds.
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GOP Could Gain Nearly 200 Statehouse Seats If SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights Act Read Post »
“I am a conservative Democrat, but I will work with the president,” Cuellar said after Trump’s angry social media post.
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Trump Slams Democrat Cuellar for Not Switching Parties After Pardon Read Post »
Trump has put election deniers in charge of overseeing “election integrity” for the 2026 midterms.
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Trump Militarized Cities in ICE Crackdowns. Is Militarizing the Ballot Box Next? Read Post »
The map is engineered to give GOP control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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SCOTUS Lets Texas Use GOP-Friendly Congressional Map as Legal Battle Continues Read Post »
At the behest of Trump, several GOP-led states have redrawn maps to give the party an advantage in next year’s midterms.
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DeSantis Signals Florida Will Gerrymander Its Maps in the Spring Read Post »
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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The Texas Gerrymandering Case Is a Test of the Supreme Court’s Integrity Read Post »
The Trump administration “explicitly directed the Legislature to redistrict on race,” the court recognized.
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Trump-Backed Congressional Maps in Texas Struck Down as Racial Gerrymander Read Post »
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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Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Read Post »
The DOJ has not intervened in other lawsuits regarding gerrymandered maps in GOP-led states.
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DOJ Joins Republican Party’s Effort to Block California’s New Congressional Maps Read Post »
Republicans have ignored a voter-backed ballot initiative that aimed to create an independent redistricting commission.
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Utah Judge May Face Impeachment After Ruling GOP Maps Were Gerrymandered Read Post »
Prop 50 suspends the independent redistricting process in California to curtail GOP gerrymandering in other states.
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Californians Back Prop 50 Redistricting Measure by Nearly 2-to-1 Spread — Poll Read Post »
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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Obama: California’s Prop 50 Is “Critical” for Democracy Read Post »
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