Demonstrators gather at the Missouri Statehouse in Jefferson City on September 10 to protest the legislature's efforts to change the state's congressional district maps. Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star/TNS/Getty Images

Republicans are ratcheting up their extraordinary efforts to tip the scales of the 2026 midterm elections by redistricting new GOP-leaning US House seats in the middle of the decade.

Such efforts have now proceeded apace in Missouri and North Carolina . Indiana and Kansas are weighing it, too, with pressure from the Trump White House. And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that his state would join the fray if the Supreme Court opens the floodgates to more partisan gerrymandering.

All would join Texas, whose gambit to add five GOP seats set off this redistricti

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