While MSNBC "Morning Joe" hosts agreed that redistricting efforts nationwide were "bad for government," several agreed that after Texas' approved gerrymandered maps, the "arms race is on." Former President Barack Obama supported Gov.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom can count former President Barack Obama in his corner as he gears up for a high-stakes fight over redistricting and partisan gerrymandering. Texas House Republicans on Wednesday approved a redrawn congressional map designed to ...

It came after Democratic lawmakers in Texas temporarily fled to deny the statehouse a quorum, thereby temporarily halting the redistricting effort. Former President Barack Obama spoke out in favor of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s response to ...

California's Democratic Legislature is expected to counter Texas' mid-decade redraw of its congressional map with one of its own.

Newsom has engineered the high-risk strategy in response to President Donald Trump’s own brinkmanship. Trump pushed Texas Republicans to reopen the legislative maps they passed in 2021 to squeeze out up to five new GOP seats to help the party stave off a midterm defeat.

Former President Barack Obama accused Lone Star State Republicans of seeking to engage in gerrymandering in "a power grab that undermines our democracy"

Under normal circumstances, Barack Obama probably wouldn't endorse a Democratic plan for mid-decade redistricting. But these are not normal circumstances.