Just minutes after the polls closed in California, multiple outlets declared that California voters had passed Proposition 50, a ballot measure that suspends the state’s independent redistricting commission and allows the Democratic-controlled legislature to redraw the state’s congressional maps for the 2026 midterms.

The massive win means Democrats can net as many as five U.S. House seats from California, effectively negating the gains Texas Republicans could see from their own newly gerrymandered map, which Texas GOP lawmakers unilaterally redrew at the behest of President Donald Trump.

Major credit goes to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who made a bold and quick decision to fight back against Republicans’ attempt to rig the 2026 midterms with unprecedented mid-decade redistr

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