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Four California Republicans filed an emergency petition Monday at the California Supreme Court to stop Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats from calling a special election to approve a new congressional map.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom angrily demanded information Sunday about a U.S. Border Patrol raid outside a rally in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday during his rally to gerrymander the state’s congressional seats.

California voters oppose Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) plan to redraw congressional districts and gerrymander in favor of Democrats, rather than preserving the existing “independent” commission that draws district maps.

California State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) said Tuesday that an attempt by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to redraw the state’s congressional districts would be both “illegal and unconstitutional.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a state court clear the way for law enforcement officials to arrest Democrat Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke for allegedly violating a court order barring him from fundraising for the statehouse Democrats who fled Texas to delay the redistricting process for U.S. congressional seats in the state.

Democrats are claiming the Texas state legislature is attempting to “rig the midterm elections” despite an analysis demonstrating that Democrat-led states disenfranchise Republican voters on a massive scale through gerrymandering.

Governor Gavin Newsom (CA-D) on Monday posted a letter to President Donald Trump on X stating his plans to redraw California’s congressional districts if states under Republican leadership move forward with what he called “hyper-partisan gerrymanders” ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The deadline for jet-setting Texas House Democrats to return to the Capitol and resume their duties looms at 1 p.m. CDT on Friday. Texas officials warn that if the legislators do not return to work, their seats will be vacated,

On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, under the leadership of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, reaffirmed its commitment to enforcing federal voting laws and protecting ballot access for all Americans.

Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) authored an opinion piece this week accusing Texas Republicans of orchestrating a “legal insurrection” through their proposed mid-decade redistricting plan. The op-ed, which highlights growing interstate political tensions, followed efforts by Texas Democrats to block the GOP-favored map by fleeing the state.

A motion to issue arrest warrants for the dozens of Texas Democrat legislators who fled the state Sunday to prevent their Republican colleagues from voting on a congressional redistricting map has been passed by the state’s House of Representatives.

Democrat lawmakers in Texas who have fled in attempts to delay redistricting plans owe the voters their presence, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Chuck DeVore said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

Mid-decade redistricting is not completely unheard of, and the plan would actually create more “majority minority” districts, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Chuck DeVore said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, discussing the Lone Star State’s redistricting proposal.

Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) is taking bold action to block what he calls a “brazen and corrupt” power grab by Gov. Gavin Newsom, introducing federal legislation to ban mid-decade redistricting nationwide and protect the integrity of California’s voter-approved Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the arrest of what he called the “Delinquent House Democrats” after the legislators failed to return to the Capitol as ordered on Sunday. The governor ordered Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to “locate, arrest, and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans.” 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is declaring “war” on Republicans over plans in Texas proposing a new congressional map that would likely result in five pickups for the GOP.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is praising Texas Democrats for refusing to vote on a Republican-led redistricting plan that could shift five congressional seats to the GOP, a move that involved fleeing the state to break quorum. His comments come amid a broader effort by Democrats to delegitimize Republican-led election reforms while advancing their own partisan maps in deep blue states.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) complained that the Republican-proposed Texas redistricting maps would draw her out of her own district, calling the plan a “hot mess.”

On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) argued that redistricting by Democrats that was favorable to them in states like Illinois, Oregon, and New Mexico is different from what Republicans are doing with redistricting in Texas

Vice President JD Vance slammed California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attempt to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts to eliminate Republican districts and add Democratic ones, noting that Republicans are already underrepresented in the state’s congressional delegation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) wants to scrap California’s nominally independent redistricting process in favor of a partisan gerrymander for Congress, following in the footsteps of Illinois Gov. J.B. Prizker (D).

California Gov. Gavin Newsom taunted Texas over redrawing its congressional districts, suggesting he would retaliate — though California, with an independent redistricting commission, has no legal way of doing so.

New York Democrats are trying to inflate the city’s share of seats in Congress and of federal funding by keeping illegal aliens in the federal 2030 census.

The New York State Redistricting Commission has voted 9-1 in favor of a Congressional map that will head to the state legislature for a vote.

The DLCC is dumping six figures into the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race, an election that could have considerable consequences for abortion.

The Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s redistricting plan for congressional seats a second time on Tuesday by a unanimous vote, suggesting the justices might have regarded this map as defiance against the Supreme Court’s previous 5-4 decision against a similar map.

A federal court on Tuesday ruled to strike down redistricting maps signed into law by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) in July after the maps failed to create a second majority-black congressional district. 

State courts can override state legislatures on congressional redistricting maps, but only to a limited extent, and federal courts can override both, a divided U.S. Supreme Court held.

The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday ruled that there is no legal mechanism to judge claims of “partisan gerrymandering,” giving the Republican-controlled state legislatures the ultimate authority to draw congressional maps without court intervention.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Wednesday that he would investigate Los Angeles over its new City Council districts after a leaked recording suggested some officials wanted to maximize Latino representation and dilute the power of black voters.

Political analysts changed the rating for Texas’s Thirty-Fourth Congressional District in favor of Republican Rep. Mayra Flores, snubbing Democrat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who is also running in the district.

Supreme Cout Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used her second day on the nation’s highest court to make a bizarre “originalist” argument that claimed that since the post-Civil War Amendments were meant to benefit former slaves, they justify “race-conscious” policies.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) leads his long-time colleague Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) in New York’s Twelfth Congressional District Democrat primary race by nine points in the Emerson College poll.

Trump-endorsed Republican candidate Madison Gesiotto Gilbert told Breitbart News that she’s “ready to fight” in Congress for the families in Ohio and the state’s freshly minted Thirteenth Congressional District.

University of Virginia Center for Politics’s analysts identified that the House Republicans are better off with the overall congressional maps following the redistricting process.

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday declined to rule on a lawsuit challenging Gov. Ron DeSantis’s redistricting map, throwing it back to Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal that ruled in favor of the map.