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In two unanimous decisions Monday, the state Supreme Court ruled that the effort violated the “single subject” requirement in the state constitution The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday threw out a trio of ballot measures that aimed to redraw the state’s congressional map and give Democrats three more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, removing Colorado from the nationwide battle over redistricting and delivering a victory to Republicans. The initiatives, funded by a group linked to U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, would have temporarily paused the state’s independent redistricting process, which voters added to...

DALLAS — After 60 years of Republican domination in southern states, a new coalition of Democrats is eager to end GOP control in the South. This “New Southern Strategy" was organized by the Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu, D-Houston. His idea is to bring together Democratic legislative leaders from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and other southern states. The new coalition just met in Atlanta for the first time. Lawmakers discussed strategies for responding to Republican legislation in their respective states. Wu said that Democrats have historically fought similar political battles independently but now suggests a collective...

After Gov. Brian Kemp called them into a special session, state lawmakers said they didn’t have enough time to draw new maps that would have taken effect for the 2028 elections. Georgia lawmakers will not redraw the state’s political maps this month after GOP Gov. Brian Kemp called them into a special session to do so. Following a major Supreme Court ruling on redistricting this spring, Kemp asked the Republican-led Legislature to consider new congressional and state legislative lines ahead of the 2028 election, since the 2026 election is already underway. But on Wednesday afternoon, state Republican legislative leaders said...

Georgia’s Republican legislative leaders on Wednesday rejected Gov. Brian Kemp’s call to redraw congressional and legislative districts during a special session, citing concerns about moving too quickly after a US Supreme Court decision weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters. House Speaker Jon Burns sent Kemp a letter hours before a special session was set to begin Wednesday, and he announced the decision as demonstrators filled the Georgia Capitol with chants of “Black voters matter!” The decision marked a setback for both Kemp and President Donald Trump, who has urged Republican-led states to redraw congressional districts to their...

This video details the collapse of a high-stakes Virginia redistricting effort that Democratic leaders pursued as a strategic counter-move to national Republican redistricting trends. The Core Controversy Democrats in Virginia sought to leverage a constitutional amendment to shift the state's congressional map from a 6–5 Democratic advantage to a potentially lopsided 10–1 Democratic majority (3:36-4:13). To achieve this, the party poured approximately $64 million into a campaign supporting the referendum, which narrowly passed in April 2026 (4:17-4:40). Legal & Procedural Failure Within 24 hours of the vote, the entire effort was halted by Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley, who blocked...

The Florida Supreme Court has allowed new U.S. House districts drawn by Republicans to be used in the midterm elections, marking another victory for the GOP in a nationwide redistricting effort aimed at helping the party retain its slim House majority. The court on Wednesday refused a request to issue a temporary injunction against the new districts. Attorneys for voters who sued argued that the new House districts violate a state constitutional provision prohibiting partisan gerrymandering, and that the court should order the state to continue using the same districts as in the previous election. Republicans already hold 20 of...

However you look at it, Trump won the redistricting war by picking up 16 seats to the Democrats’ pick up of just six — a net GOP gain of ten. People laughed at President Trump when he began to push Republican-dominated states to do what Democrat-run states had already done decades ago: redistrict their state’s congressional seats to their partisan advantage. The usual-usuals among the Republican Party’s oh-so-smartest assured us this would backfire. But Trump understood that Democrats had long ago redistricted to within an inch of their lives and that Republicans hadn’t. The advantage in that war could only...

Another Black organization is urging U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz not to run in Florida’s 20th Congressional District. In a three-page statement shared with media outlets, the Democratic Black Caucus of Florida urged Wasserman Schultz to stay out of CD 20 and instead run in the newly drawn Florida’s 22nd Congressional District...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map that eliminates one of two majority-Black districts in the state in a win for Republicans. The justices, split 6-3 on ideological lines with conservatives in the majority, granted an emergency request filed by Republican officials seeking to use the map, which was enacted in 2023 but has never been used. In the unsigned three-page order, the court said the state is likely to ultimately prevail on its claim that the map was lawfully drawn. In dissent, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority’s decision “disregards both democratic values...

🚨 BREAKING: The Missouri Supreme Court has just UPHELD the state’s new 7R-1D Congressional map, allowing it to go in effect for the 2026 midterms ANOTHER seat lost by Democrats 🔥 LFG! Keep up the redistricting! We are WINNING!

The U.S. Department of Justice has invoked the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais to hammer California’s racially gerrymandered congressional map In a filing that sends a clear message to Sacramento Democrats, the U.S. Department of Justice has invoked the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais to hammer California’s racially gerrymandered congressional map, telling Governor Gavin Newsom and his allies that race-based district-drawing is unconstitutional—full stop. On May 22, 2026, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jesus A. Osete and DOJ attorneys filed Plaintiff-Intervenor’s Opposition to Motions to Dismiss in the ongoing federal lawsuit David...

A Georgia congressman is proposing a controversial new idea -- he’s calling the “Make D.C. Square Again Act." He said it would expand Washington, D.C. by adding Arlington and Alexandria into the nation's capital. In a post on X, Congressman Rick McCormick said Arlington and Alexandria were “always meant” to be part of D.C., arguing the change would simplify long-running debates over political maps and representation. "What we want to do is make D.C. square again. It's a simple concept. Square. We repeal that unconsituational law, gIve back Virginia exactly what it should have, give D.C. what it should have...

In 1846, a third of the District of Columbia was stolen by Virginia to appease slaveholders. It is time to right that wrong and return to the borders laid down by George Washington himself. The One-Way Ratchet The Constitution gave Congress a one-way ratchet: the power to create a permanent seat of government by accepting cessions from states. Once that ratchet clicked forward in 1790, it was locked. The Constitution provides no mechanism to pull it back. Article I, Section 8 grants Congress the power to "exercise exclusive Legislation" over a district "not exceeding ten Miles square" that becomes "the...

We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier — Be prepared! There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.”...

From 2018 and 2024, the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington D.C. arranged for the ‘resettlement’ of 6,299 ‘refugees’ in Maryland. Nearly 1 in 5 of them came from the Islamic terror state of Afghanistan and 1 in 10 came from the equally violent and dangerous terrorist state of Syria. Nearly 70% spoke no English. The second most common language was Arabic. However in Washington D.C., once part of the state and likely to be part of it again if retrocession reform advocates get their way, only 73 ‘refugees’ were resettled in 6 years. ... D.C. is small, but Vermont, which...

the issue continues to be dead in the water. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee who helped organize the hearing, simply said that if Washington residents want full representation in the House and the Senate, Maryland should take back part of the district. “A better option, in my view, would be to retrocede a large portion of the district to Maryland. Retrocession is the preferable way to provide D.C. residents with voting representation in both chambers of Congress,” Portman’s suggestion has been offered before, largely because the federal city was...

Virginia’s redistricting referendum, which could net Democrats a 10-1 House seat advantage, is spurring Republican legislation that would expand the borders of Washington, D.C., and cost the state Democratic voters. Georgia Republican Rep. Rich McCormick said Thursday he introduced the Make DC Square Again Act, a bill that would undo the 19th century return of the southwestern part of the district to the state of Virginia, known as retrocession. “The Make DC Square Again Act restores the original ten-mile-square District and ends the artificial advantage Virginia Democrats have recently gained from all the federal bureaucrats moving into Virginia,” McCormick said...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to reshape congressional districts ahead of the November elections suffered a double setback Tuesday, as South Carolina senators declined to do so and a federal court blocked a Republican-backed map in Alabama.As early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina’s primaries, the state Senate rejected a Republican plan to cancel those congressional votes and instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed to help the GOP oust a longtime Democrat.Some senators said it was simply too late to make a change.“South Carolina citizens are going to the polls today. And neither...

A federal court has blocked Alabama from using its new congressional map, ordering the state to use a court-imposed map with 2 majority-black seats for the 2026 elections. The three-judge panel finds that Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their Section 2 claims even after Callais. It also finds that Alabama intentionally discriminated against black voters in violation of the 14th Amendment. The Court finds that Purcell does not bar relief because the court-imposed map is the operational status quo.

It’s pretty clear to see why they’re so upset: They’re not doing well. Run, little donkeys, run. The congressional redistricting of the South and Midwest, arising from the GOP’s crushing Supreme Court victory in Louisiana v. Callais, has started. The herd of elephants is charging. And they’re trampling every rural Democrat in their path, from North Carolina to Texas and Missouri. The donkeys are forced to cower in their anthill-like cities. The elephants won’t take the biggest ones, or the states that are so Blue, they’re ultraviolet. But they’re taking the rest of the country. According to my scorekeeping, this...