Posted on 08/23/2025 2:22:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As Republicans in Texas and Democrats in California strong-arm their way toward redrawing congressional maps, it can be dizzying to keep up.
One way to understand what’s happening is to ask a simple question: Which party will come out ahead?
Republicans currently hold a 219-212 edge over Democrats in the House of Representatives, with four vacancies (three seats that had been held by Democrats who died and one by a Republican who resigned.)
But with President Trump fretting that Democrats could gain control of the House after next year’s elections, Republican state legislators are frantically trying to gerrymander the maps to give themselves more of a cushion. And Democrats are scrambling to respond.
The result? If everything goes according to plan — a big if — Republicans could gain six or seven seats, putting the House farther out of reach for Democrats. Here’s how:
In Progress
Texas
A new congressional map advanced in the Texas Senate on Thursday, and Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, is expected to sign it on Monday. Republicans — who now hold 25 seats, versus 12 for the Democrats (expected to be 13, once a vacant seat in Houston is filled in November) — want to add five seats.
The targeted districts are:
Ninth District near Houston, represented by Al Green
32nd District near Dallas, Julie Johnson
35th District, stretching between San Antonio and Austin, Greg Casar
Sam Wang, a professor at Princeton University who leads the school’s Gerrymandering Project, wrote in a blog post Friday...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I contend that the Democrats are all gerrymandered out. Republicans are finally learning to play by their rules.
Dems been doing it for a long time, Reps are just getting started and have much more potential to gain.
They won’t all do the same thing. Just look at how the Wisconsin GOP went wobbly over another issue I can’t recall. 2026 is preseason for the attack animals on both sides. The real fight will be over the 2030 census and the gerrymander fights afterwards. It appears that if we play hardball we’ll have a lot to look forward to. The rats have been playing hardball all along. We have 4 years to deal with our own.
Gonna be awesome.
This will eventually turn out to be a battle over “meager scraps”...
The dropping of migrant invaders from the census will mean high double-digit losses for the communists...
For example, CA will have major changes, once the 12-15 million vile migrant invaders in CA are erased from the rolls...
don’t forget that even if CA is able to pull off redistricting (doubtful), the 5 new TX reps will likely be much more conservative than 5 CA repubs that lose their seats. It’s a win either way.
The current majority is basically because of Florida and they plan on adding at least 2 more GOP seats. America needs the kind of leadership Florida has.
The democrat coalition will get hammered after redistricting in 2030.
They’re grasping at straws, right now.
According to Alex Degrasse & Steve Bannon the number might be more like 15. Even more if Kentucky gets into the game.
Kentucky cannot participate. The governor is a democrat.
Redistricting is a function of the legislature, not the governor. Last time I looked the Republican Party controls both chambers of the Kentucky General Assembly, the state legislature.
The governor doesn’t have to sign? That would be a surprise.
https://redistricting.lls.edu/state/kentucky/?cycle=2020&level=Congress&startdate=2022-01-20
A little process on redistricting in Kentucky.
Dems already shot their load.
If the courts strike it down, tell them to go pound sand like the Democrats repeatedly do. If need be, fight it all the way to the top, and in the meantime get the appeals court to overrule the lower courts ruling.
We must fight the Democrats in the same manner they have been fighting us. No holds barred smash-mouth rumble tumble.
No more excuses now. Fight, fight, fight, and with positivity. 😁👍
I agree! Republicans are always sloppy in everything they do and constantly have to catch up.
The establishment Republicans do not want to change the corruption, for they too like the easy money & the power. They care not for this nation or her citizens. That’s why they always support the Democrats, because they are in essence, Democrats themselves.
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