Jen reports on threats to democracy in states across the country. She previously covered elections and local government at the Houston Chronicle and at Houston’s NPR station. She loves voting early on Halloween.
Florida voters and pro-voting group Equal Ground Education Fund filed a lawsuit challenging the GOP’s new congressional gerrymander, urging a court to block the map for violating the state constitution’s ban on partisan gerrymandering.
Alabama may suspend its May 19 congressional primary elections to pass a new gerrymandered map in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act (VRA) — even though absentee mail ballots have already been sent to voters and some ballots have already been cast.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) declared a state of emergency Thursday to suspend the state’s congressional primary election — which has already begun — in a shocking effort to hastily gerrymander the district following Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act.
The Florida Senate voted 21-17 Wednesday to approve a gerrymandered map that could deliver up to four more Republican seats in Congress in the upcoming elections. The vote sends the measure to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who proposed the map and has made clear he will sign it. Litigation challenging the map, which could hand […]
The Florida House of Representatives has passed a new, aggressively gerrymandered congressional map, part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) madcap dash to redistrict despite a voter-approved ban in the state constitution that prohibits partisan gerrymandering.
A Florida House committee has approved an aggressively gerrymandered congressional map proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
The 7-3 vote, which came within hours of the opening of a redistricting special session, puts the state on a breathtakingly fast trajectory to deliver up to four more Republican congressional seats in time for the 2026 midterm elections.
Florida lawmakers will meet Tuesday for a four-day special session called by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to approve a more GOP-friendly congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections.
The Virginia Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday morning in one of three pending challenges to Democrats’ redistricting plan, which voters approved during a special election last week.
Virginia officials have filed a motion to pause a lower court ruling blocking the state’s voter-approved redistricting plan, part of a battle that will likely end up back before the state Supreme Court.
If Democrats’ remarkable victory in the Virginia referendum election tells us anything, it’s this: President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to use mid-decade redistricting to maintain control of Congress in the 2026 midterms has not gone according to plan.