A proposed map from Texas Republicans would flip five districts red by merging Democratic seats in the Houston, Austin, and Dallas-Fort Worth areas to form new Republican-leaning seats and by making two Rio Grande Valley districts currently held by Democrats more competitive.

Republican lawmakers are poised to push the map through over fierce Democratic opposition, positioning the GOP to net up to five additional seats in Texas.

California lawmakers passed a legislative package Thursday advancing a partisan redistricting plan aimed at winning Democrats five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 elections.

The Republican-controlled Texas House has passed a redistricting plan that could give the GOP as many as five additional congressional seats. On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough said gerrymandering is fueling division in Congress,

California Democrats passed a trio of redistricting bills Thursday, a day after Republicans in the Texas House passed new maps of their own. Taken together, the package of bills backed by Democratic Gov.

The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives passed Wednesday a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five new winnable GOP seats in Congress.

The vote overcame weeks of protests from House Democrats who fled the state to stall a vote on the mid-cycle redistricting.

The gambit has triggered a national redistricting war, as governors from both major parties threaten to initiate similar efforts in other states.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has engineered the high-risk strategy in response to President Donald Trump's own brinkmanship.

President Trump signaled Thursday that Missouri will be the next state to redraw its congressional lines to benefit the Republican Party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The move sets up a ballot initiative that, if approved by voters, would sidestep the independent commission in charge of redistricting.

Michigan has independent redistricting and a divided state government that pretty much take it out of the fight over congressional maps before 2026.