On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the GOP’s gerrymandering efforts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

After Trump asked Texas Republicans to approve a congressional map that will create five new GOP-leaning seats in August, California Governor Gavin Newsom countered with his own redistricting plan to make up the difference. These efforts have ignited a “gerrymandering arms race” as state lawmakers enter a partisan showdown to protect and expand their power ahead of the critical midterm election.

Though the current battle over gerrymandering is reaching a fever pitch, the roots of the GOP’s attack on voting rights are much deeper than the Trump presidency, making the fight against them significantly harder to win. As David Daley writes in a recent op-ed in The Guardian, a han

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