Demand Fair Maps in Texas and Nationwide

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Prompted by the Trump administration’s call for more Republicans in the House of Representatives, the Texas legislature is beginning a redistricting process. Texas Republicans are proposing a new Congressional district map. Their proposal redraws districts that are currently mostly racial and ethnic minorities in order to gain five new House seats for Congressional Republicans. Every decade since the 1965 Voting Rights Act, courts have found that Texas’ district maps illegally diluted the voting power of minorities, a problem Texas Republicans now seek to worsen. What happens in Texas will affect redistricting plans across the country and affect the balance of Congressional power after the 2026 midterm elections.

States typically redistrict once each decade, after a US Census. Rather than continue to use the 2021 district map, drawn by Republicans after the 2020 census, Texas Republicans are beginning a mid-decade redistricting process. Texas Republicans in the legislature and executive branches have argued in sworn testimony that the current maps are legal, and those same Republicans are now arguing that the same maps are illegal and urgently in need of redrawing.

Governors of all states must pressure Texas to halt this redistricting process. The precedent established by a partisan mid-decade redistricting cycle could lead to a race to the bottom. Many states would gerrymander districts to gain seats for the party in power. Call your governor now and demand that they publicly oppose this unprecedented, anti-democratic process.