With only a little more than two months until Election Day, campaigns will be working overtime to convince voters whether they should adopt new partisan congressional maps.

The Assembly passed the measure 57 to 20, and lawmakers on the floor erupted in applause even before they closed the vote.

The two largest U.S. states have launched a congressional mid-decade redistricting war, and several other states are joining the fray ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, which Democrats hope will mark the end of Republicans’ control of the federal government.

Texas Republicans and California Democrats are both banking on Latinos to make their gambits successful. That's understandable but dangerous. If ever a voting bloc fulfills the cliché that to assume something makes an ass out of you and me,

Republicans are plowing forward with plans for redistricting in several other states now that Texas is poised to approve its newly redrawn maps. The Lone Star State kicked off the redistricting arms race when Republicans in the state Legislature agreed to move forward with rewriting their congressional lines at the insistence of President Trump.