Key takeaways • An unprecedented national race to gerrymander (politically redraw) congressional districts in red and blue states is underway. • Texas Republicans kicked it off this summer, after President Donald Trump’s insistence. California voters approved a new map last week — the first major response by Democrats to counter GOP gains. • More Republican states have passed — and are considering — new maps. Now Democrats are seeing where they counter those gains too.

In addition to lifting Democrats’ spirits, last week’s elections, in which the party beat expectations and regained much of the support among young and nonwhite voters that it had lost in 2024, changed the calculus for what may become one of the defining fights of the second Trump presidency: the so-called redistricti

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