With the 2026 midterm elections now one year away, Republican and Democratic state legislators who have yet to redraw congressional maps in their favor have only a short window before candidate filing deadlines and the primary season end their opportunities.

Redrawing maps to squeeze out more safe seats before any votes are cast is not part of the ordinary run-up to an election. But when President Donald Trump demanded that Republican-led states gerrymander their House maps to stave off Democratic control, he shattered decades of settled norms regarding how and when legislative lines are drawn.

The Texas Legislature kicked things off. Missouri and North Carolina legislators followed suit. An already scheduled redrawing in Ohio just finished, potentially netting Republicans more seats, wh

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