Sacramento’s most trusted supplier of voter data was once a cheerleader for nonpartisan redistricting. Now Paul Mitchell is setting the lines for Democrats’ mid-decade gerrymander of California's congressional map.

Texas Democrats have moved closer to ending a nearly two-week walkout that has blocked the GOP's redrawing of U.S. House maps before the 2026 election.

But in some of the nation’s biggest Senate races, Democrats are relying on an old strategy of recruiting—and then clearing the field for—long-serving party leaders with whom voters are already familiar.

Democrats' absence has halted work in the Texas House, which must also approve the new boundaries, for more than a week.

SPRINGFIELD — As national Democrats continue looking for a message that will resonate with the American public enough to put them back in power, U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Tuesday it could be as simple as: “America is too expensive.”

A half-dozen Indiana House Democrats met with their Texas colleagues Wednesday in Chicago to oppose unprecedented mid-cycle redistricting efforts, a process that typically occurs once in a decade. Earlier that same day,

Newsweek contacted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, who filed the legal petition, for comment via online inquiry forms on Thursday, outside of regular office hours.

House Democrats have called on the Trump administration to require ICE officers to be clearly identified when conducting arrests to protect women from assaults and kidnappings by imposters.