Posted on 09/29/2025 6:34:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Score another victory for President Donald Trump in the high-stakes political battle between Republicans and Democrats over congressional redistricting.
GOP Gov. Mike Kehoe of Missouri on Sunday signed into law a new congressional map, Missouri First, that is likely to hand Republicans an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives ahead of next year’s midterms elections.
Missouri, once considered a swing state that has dramatically shifted to the right over the past decade and a half, is the latest battleground in the congressional redistricting showdown after the passage of new maps in GOP-dominated Texas and a redistricting push by Democrats in heavily blue California. …
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Good... Florida?? Arkansas??? You got screwed when they purposely under counted your states in the 2020 census and you lost out on congressional seats you are entitled to...
Yay for MO!
I live in Missouri now and it is not a woke state...
(just stay away from St Louis and Kansas City)
If they can redistrict why not redistrict these two cities
right out of the state.. make a present of them to Illinois and Kansas!
We can use silver and gold to pay for stuff here, they passed laws allowing it... God’s own money :-)
Good for one seat.
Great to actually see republicans trying to win for a change.
Now, every republican held legislature needs to do the same. The DEMONRATS have been cheating us for a long, long time.
These maps look *less* gerrymandered than before. They are more contiguous and compact - no zig zags, strings, etc. If anything they were gerrymandering in a couple of Dem districts to be “fair” before.
Meanwhile, look at the shape of the Illinois “nongerrymandered” map.
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