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Why Donald Trump’s Call to Further Gerrymander Texas Could Backfire
On Monday morning, we at Texas Monthly launched this year’s version of our traditional review of the Texas legislative session. We wrote that the Legislature in 2025 had become cripplingly polarized and beholden to outside influence and the wills of a few political strongmen. On Monday night, The New York Times reported that the Legislature, at the behest of the White House, could gear up for a round of mid-decade redistricting, possibly as early as July.Trump’s team is calling for the Lege to tweak congressional districts out of cycle in order to give the Republican Party, it hopes, a few more seats in the U.S. House in the next midterm. We’re going to get a little in the weeds about what that entails, so let’s…The post Why Donald Trump’s Call to Further Gerrymander Texas Could Backfire appeared first on Texas Monthly.