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The Texas GOP’s latest gerrymander explicitly targets key districts represented by Latino-elected Democrats, underscoring a strategy to court Latino voters while cutting off their electoral power.
Facing increasingly dire polls, President Donald Trump recently launched a gerrymandering war in the hopes of staving off Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2026 midterm elections.
The Voting Rights Act, the watershed Civil Rights era law that has prevented attempts to dilute minority votes through racially gerrymandered electoral maps hundreds of times, turns 60 Wednesday.
The Republicans who run one of Texas’ biggest counties have recruited the national GOP’s top map-drawer, as well as a leading Washington D.C.-based voter suppression group, to ram through a new gerrymander that aims to expand their majority.
“It feels like whatever the SCOTUS ruling is, this is just going to be a sort of an ongoing, non-stop battle.”
Republicans are trying to strike down the VRA’s Section 2 the same way they dismantled Section 5. Here’s how it’s different.
Though the 2024 election has passed, many ongoing redistricting cases could still have significant impacts on voting rights in a number of states.
How will a Trump DOJ run by loyalists and possibly purged of career attorneys impact voting rights? Looking at its record during Trump’s first term could provide an indication of what’s to come.
In the 2024 general election, Alabama and Louisiana voters will cast their ballots in new majority-Black electoral districts.
Independent commissions are a promising step toward reforming the redistricting process across the U.S., advocates say, while some states have shown that lawmakers are capable of passing fair maps.
