The Democratic Party believes the Voting Rights Act guarantees majority-minority seats proportional to minority populations.

The Supreme Court takes up segregated political maps, a temporary remedy that has lingered on.

S ixty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, more than a dozen congressional districts as well as many state legislative districts are drawn along openly racial lines

Democrats and Republicans agree gerrymandering threatens representative democracy. Nevertheless, both parties have done it and are now in the midst of a “gerrymander war.” It is the political equivalent of mutual assured destruction, in this case destruction of our democracy.

Recent survey data that say nearly one-third of Gen Z (32%) identify as independents, the highest share of any age group. Younger voters are also the

While both Blue and Red states (including Florida) undertake mid-decade congressional redistricting ahead of the 2026 election, a report critizes the way the U.S. Census and state government count prison populations for the purpose of redistricting.

Republicans are ratcheting up their extraordinary efforts to tip the scales of the 2026 midterm elections by redistricting new GOP-leaning US House seats in the middle of the decade.