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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.
The Washington Post is deeply concerned that Virginia’s “yes” vote Tuesday to allow a new congressional map is a “Democratic power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”
President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm elections by pushing GOP-controlled states to redraw congressional maps isn’t over yet.
President Donald Trump and his allies are doing everything they can — and we mean everything — to somehow get their monster voter suppression bill through Congress. And no one is covering this epic fight as closely as Democracy Docket.
A Republican attorney who played a key role in President Donald Trump’s unprecedented mid-decade Texas gerrymander last year is now the GOP nominee to represent one of the very congressional districts he helped redraw.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is publicly offering to abandon his U.S. Senate campaign if Senate Republicans agree to change the filibuster rules and pass the SAVE America Act, a sweeping anti-voting bill.
As the MAGA base fractures over the decision to attack Iran, GOP Senators excoriate some cabinet officials in hearings, and House Republicans subpoena others, Trump and his allies appear increasingly desperate to pass the SAVE America Act.
Baffled Texans in two counties struggled to find their polling locations for primary voting Tuesday after a GOP-driven change. The secretary of state’s office failed to provide accurate information. Texas’ Republican attorney general sued to oppose extended voting hours for those confused voters. And the GOP-controlled state Supreme Court quickly ruled in its favor.
Hundreds of Democratic voters in Dallas and Williamson Counties, Texas scrambled to find their polling places after the local Republican parties refused a joint primary.
Both measures would effectively ban, or significantly hinder, voter registration drives run by schools, colleges, unions, and other civic groups that aim to reach unregistered voters and get them on the rolls.
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