This Week at Democracy Docket: Yet Another GOP Gerrymander, While DOJ Moves to Gain Control Over Elections
Another week, another Republican gerrymander rammed through at the expense of minority voters.
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This Week at Democracy Docket: GOP Gerrymandering Puts Fair Elections at Risk
This was the week when it became clear to anyone paying attention: The GOP’s drive to gerrymander districts in their favor — usually at the cost of minority representation — threatens the long-term fairness of elections.
GOP’s Anti-Democratic Gerrymander Drive Kicks Into High Gear
In red states across the country, GOP lawmakers and officials took a range of steps to move forward with their gerrymanders. Together, the moves suggest that, even leaving the Supreme Court aside, Republicans have abandoned any remaining political or moral qualms about drawing maps that maximize their advantage — with potentially dire consequences for the future of fair elections.
‘We Could Not Have Clearer Facts’: Minority Advocates Say Racial Motive Is Evident As Texas Redistricting Hearing Wraps Up
A panel of three federal judges will soon decide whether to block Texas from using its new congressional map in the 2026 election, after a contentious nine-day hearing concluded Friday.
New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map
In federal court Thursday, information about Texas’ secretive redistricting process started to come into focus as Republican leadership testified.
Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington
The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.
RNC-Hired Mapmaker Denies Using Racial Data in Texas Gerrymander
The Republican Party’s leading mapmaker took the stand Tuesday in a federal hearing to determine whether Texas can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in the 2026 election.
In Testimony, Top Texas Republican Remembers Another Conversation With GOP Mapmaker
A top Texas Republican revealed in federal court Monday he didn’t tell legislators about a phone call with the national GOP operative who drew the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map.
This Week at Democracy Docket: Reporting Live from the Texas Gerrymander Challenge
This week, a federal court in El Paso, Texas has been hearing a case that could determine who controls Congress after next year’s elections. And Democracy Docket has been one of the very few national news outlets to cover it.
Texas Gerrymander Was Drawn ‘Focusing on Race,’ Expert Tells Court
Texas Republicans redrew the state’s congressional map this summer at the urging of President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice, aiming to eliminate some majority minority districts with a plan that’s now under scrutiny in federal court in El Paso.