A partisan move by Texas to redraw its congressional maps before the 2026 elections to try to secure five more Republican seats in the U.S. House has set off a clamor to replicate the effort by Democrats and Republicans in other states.

So far, California is the only other state to take significant steps toward a mid-decade redistricting.

Changing congressional maps in a bid to ensure one party’s victory over another — called gerrymandering — has typically been done more furtively, and immediately after a census. But President Donald Trump's call for Texas to redraw the maps to better ensure that Republicans retain control of the House has blown the lid off the practice. Trump is trying to avoid losing control of Congress and, with it, prospects for his policy goals in the latter part of

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