Redistricting

On both the state and county levels, Alabama’s redistricting efforts have frequently faced legal pushback for racial gerrymandering. 

Missouri is one of several red states engaging in a rare, mid-decade redistricting effort to protect the GOP’s House majority in the 2026 midterms. 

Missouri’s redistricting effort comes as several Red states gerrymander their electoral maps to protect their narrow majority in the House. 

Portia Allen-Kyle, Interim Executive Director at Color Of Change, writes that when it comes to redistricting, we have to fight fire with fire.

The redistricting push in Indiana and Florida comes after Texas redrew its electoral map to add five seats in districts President Donald Trump won in 2024. 

Gov. Greg Abbott initiated the Texas redistricting effort in July at the behest of President Donald Trump to protect the GOP’s narrow House majority. 

Rep. Nicole Collier was one of several Texas Democrats who left the state to protest Texas’ redistricting effort, which many view as gerrymandering.

In this op-ed, Lawrence Ross discusses the political imprisonment of Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier and the need to be brave enough to resist fascism.

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier refused to accept the Republican version of freedom papers after Democratic lawmakers successfully broke quorum. 

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) requested assistance in finding state Democrats who left Texas Sunday to stop a Republican-led redistricting vote.

Gov. Abbott also called for the arrest of the Texas Democrats who fled the state to prevent a vote on a new electoral map from moving forward.

Voter purges and redistricting are prescient in Ohio, but Ohio is endemic to what is happening across the country.