Redistricting & Census Tampering
2021
2021-01-04 Democrats introduced the For The People/Freedom to Vote Act but it was blocked by a filibuster in June. The bill included anti-gerrymandering provisions.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the-freedom-to-vote-act-unpacked/
2024
2024-04-05 An article reads “You have imprisoned our democracy: inside Republican’s domination of Tennessee”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/tennessee-republicans-one-party-state
2024-11-15 Republicans rejected a ballot measure to strip lawmakers from being able to manipulate electoral districts with partisan gerrymandering tactics.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/electoral-reform-ballot-measures
2025 January
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 13986 Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census
2025 August
2025-08-05 Republicans started redistricting to gain more Republican seats ahead of the midterms.
2025-08-07 Representative Andy Ogles out of Tennessee reposted a tweet from Trump, “I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS…”
2025-08-12 While on The Will Cain Show James Talarico of Texas addressed Republican redistricting, “My party has never gerrymandered in the middle of a decade at the request of the President of the United States, nor would we. The only way this is going to happen in Blue States is if Texas executes this power grab. You mentioned Massachusetts. Do you know the party of the governor that signed that map into law? He was a Republican”. After this comment the news anchor investigating Talarico stated the show ran out of time and ended the interview.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-democrats-on-air-clash-with-fox-host-rages-online/
2025-08-13 Ohio announced plans to redistrict.
2025-08-14 News outlets listed the eight states set to redistrict.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5501537/texas-california-gerrymandering-redistricting
2025-08-23 Texas redistricted their map ahead of the midterms, adding 5 Republican seats.
2025-08-28 Trump pressured Indiana to redistrict for more Republican seats. Indiana Governor Mike Braun stated on WOWO radio, “If we try to drag our feet as a state on it, probably, we’ll have consequences of not working with the Trump administration as tightly as we should”.
2025-08-29 Missouri announced their plan to redistrict.
2025 September
2025-09-10 Missouri passed redistricting.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/12/nx-s1-5537977/redistricting-midterms-trump-missouri
2025 November
2025-11-04 After California passed proposition 50 to counter Texas redistricting, Trump posted on social media calling the election “rigged” and stating that ballots were “under illegal and criminal review”. During a press conference journalists asked Leavitt about any evidence supporting the claims. She responded both that the accusations of fraud were “absolutely true” and “just a fact” and stated the White House was currently working on an executive order to stop alleged fraud.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-04/la-me-prop-50-trump-scam
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492361756063244
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492285081397189
2025-11-05 Not only did Proposition 50 pass in California and Mamdani win the mayoral election in New York, but several other states flipped blue or gained Democratic seats during this election including Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/election-day-2025-voting-results/
2025-11-17 A federal judge ruled that Texas substantially racially gerrymandered in their redistricting efforts.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-blocks-texas-gerrymander/
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-redistricting-push-texas-map-00658144
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5604412/redistricting-midterm-election-texas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/texas-congressional-redistricting-maps
https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/federal-court-stops-texass-2025-redistricting-map/
2025 December
2025-12-02 Indiana proposed a new redistricting map which some claimed was politically gerrymandered.
https://www.aclu-in.org/campaigns-initiatives/fair-redistricting-indiana/
2025-12-04 The Supreme Court decided to grant a stay in Texas to allow Texas to use the redrawn congressional map for the 2026 mid-term elections.
https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/supreme-court-grants-stay-in-texas-redistricting-case/
2025-12-11 After Indiana refused to redistrict ahead of mid-term elections the Heritage Foundation made threats about withholding funding via X. For context ONLY, the definition for extortion is “the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats”.
https://x.com/Heritage_Action/status/1999141506473509071
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/12/indiana-voting-map-republicans-trump
2026 February
2026-02-03 The Supreme Court allowed California to proceed with redistricting despite Republican pushback that redistricting is “unfair”.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/02/05/supreme-court-lets-california-use-its-new-congressional-map/
2026 March
2026-03-31 Trump signed an Executive Order to force a federal voter list. It instructs DHS to gather a list of voters in each state and have the USPS transmit ballots ONLY to persons enrolled in the list. It forces nationalizing voting, puts the postal service in the role of an election enforcement agency, creates a huge financial strain, challenges the Constitution, complicates mail-in ballots and forces the case to eliminate mail-in ballots (a third of US voters use mail-in ballots). It’s just another GOP attempt to suppress and interfere with votes. There has been no proof of voter fraud. The GOP simply wants to tamper with results because they can’t win a fair election and they have no integrity.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5508948/trump-voter-list-mail-ballots-executive-order
https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/01/trump-signs-executive-order-in-hope-of-tightening-mail-in-voting/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/trump-order-election-voting-explainer
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/trump-mail-in-ballots-voting-executive-order.html
2026 April
2026-04-21 Democrats in Virginia won additional seats after Republicans started a gerrymandering war in 2025. Even though Republicans had unfairly tried to gerrymander in every state, capitulating Fox network called Virginia’s win a “gerrymander scheme”.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/21/democrats-win-redistricting-virginia-00885917
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/virginia-congress-midterms-trump/686895/
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-bold-option-counter-virginias-new-gerrymander-scheme
EDUCATIONAL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibb0Bg-RB8M&list=WL&index=2
2026-04-29 SCOTUS struck down a Louisiana redistricting map by a vote of 6-3. SCOTUS also destroyed key voting rights provisions in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which was originally designed to outlaw discriminatory voting practices that would disenfranchise Black voters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anVvwhRtSAo&list=WL&index=2&t=128s
2026-04-30 Trump urged Tennessee to redistrict to gain more Republican seats.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5857661-trump-redistricting-tennessee-congress/
https://nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/01/marsha-blackburn-trump-redistricting-nashville-east-bank/
2026-04-30 Louisiana suspended congressional primaries so they could redraw their maps.
2026 May
2026-05-03 Alabama Governor kay Ivey called a special session to redraw the states congressional map and revert back to one that would eliminate a Democrat-held seat, creating a 7-0 Republican delegation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQz5EsQE8Pc
2026-05-04 Mississippi and Florida called a special session to redraw state districting maps to gain favor with Republicans and disenfranchise Black voters.
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/05/04/old-capitol-mississippi-redistricting/
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/desantis-signs-gerrymandered-florida-map-into-law/
2026-05-07 Trump pressured South Carolina to start their redistricting process. Not the will of the people – the will of Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5868640-clyburn-trump-sc-redistricting/
https://scdailygazette.com/2026/05/07/house-gop-releases-white-house-map-of-sc-voting-lines/
2026-05-07 Tennessee approved a new congressional map that breaks up a majority-black city into three Republican-leaning districts.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/politics/tennessee-redistricting-republicans-steve-cohen-us-house
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5815023/tennessee-redistricting-map-passage
2026-05-08 The Virgina Supreme Court blocked a new Congressional map that would help Democrats counter Republican power grabs ahead of the midterms.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/08/nx-s1-5805193/redistricting-virginia-trump-midterms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HisWQVg5WC4&list=WL&index=2
2026-05-15 The Supreme Court turned down efforts by Democrats to gain additional seats in Virginia.
2026-05-26 A federal court blocked the Alabama House map calling it unfair to Black voters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjhHbZ8SrdA&list=WL&index=7&t=77s
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/alabama-new-congressional-map-struck-down
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-alabama-congressional-district-midterms/
2026-05-27 South Carolina Senate rejected the GOP attempt to eliminate the last-standing Democratic district after 12 Republicans joined Democrats to vote against it. Representative Jim Clyburn stated, “The people who drew that map – some of them may not have ever set foot in South Carolina – this White House says to hell with the process – to hell with the Constitution”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHxpk7KLxeE&list=WL&index=2&t=92s
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/26/politics/south-carolina-senate-redistricting-jim-clyburn
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/south-carolina-republicans-redistricting