The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, left, and the MP from Texas, Trey Martinez Fischer, Rights, Listen on August 3, 2025 in Carol Stream, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois, the Democratic Chairman of Texas House Democratic Caucus, Gene Wu, Gene Wu. The WU was with a group of democratic legislators in Texas that left the state, so that a quorum could not be reached during a special meeting to implement the state. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump’s Washington Appeals to strengthen the razor majority of the US house in the 2026 intermediate elections, a Rare struggle in the middle of decades In Texas in Texas, in the past few days and devouring other states.
As a democratic legislator in the Lone Star State to block a up-to-date congress card, a handful of blue and red states eyed their own redistribution plans, complaints and members of the congress promised invoices to contain the redistribution of wars.
While Texas is the only state that has previously taken formal measures to re-draw his US house lines, a full-grown arms of race could be imminent.
Here is a breakdown of the newly distributed struggle when the drama unfolds:
How did all of this interest in redistribution began?
The Republicans in Texas drew a up-to-date congress card to push Trump, which the GOP could give five crucial up-to-date congress seats in 2026.
Interested elections usually lead to the loss of congress seats for the party of a president.
Meanwhile the GOP Currently holds 219 seats in the house, while the Democrats hold 212 places with four vacancies. This extremely narrow majority has presented the US house spokesman Mike Johnson, a Republican in Louisiana, immense challenges when he tries to enact Trump’s comprehensive agenda and to meet the president’s claims and the factions in the GOP conference.
Although congress districts are normally drawn every decade after each US volume, the move, especially in Texas, is unexpected and is allowed.
What’s going on in Texas?
Texas Republicans revealed a draft From the up-to-date congress card at the end of July, which applies to the districts of the Democrats from the districts of the U -Bahn, which want to change and turn the districts of Major areas, to change, change and turn around.
Accordingly The Texas TribuneAt the beginning of July, the Ministry of Justice sent a letter from Texas a letter in which four of his districts violated the US constitution. The proposed card would reduce these districts according to the tribune.
More than 50 of the democratic legislators in Texas left the state to try to prevent legislators from adopting the up-to-date card, according to the tribune.
This step attracted the anger of Greg Abbott, Governor of Texasthat went so far submit a lawsuit Ask to remove the Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair, State Rep. Gene Wu, after WU left the state.
Also the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton said Tuesday That he will pursue a court ruling that freely declares the seats for the house democrats who do not return by Friday.
Texas GOP US Senator John Cornyn also has it the FBI called “Appropriate measures to support law enforcement in Texas to localize or arrange potential laws that have fled the state.” Trump on Tuesday, asked by a reporter whether the FBI should “get involved,” said: “Well, you may have to.”
How does California react?
California governor Gavin Newsom was one of the most loudest democratic governors by proposing to behave against the Republicans in Texas by reorganizing his populated Blue State before the 2026 elections.
The state laws in California and other democratic states make the redistribution from the mid -decades tougher than in Texas.
While Pro Democracy groups have praised the impartial commission in California as a “gold standard” of the independent redistribution, Newsom has stated that he would ask the legislators of the states to temporarily scrap it in order to join the arms that Trump started in Texas.
At a press conference on Monday, newsoma founded its exploration of the redistribution in the Golden State in the middle of decades by describing Trump’s latest and historical balance as anti -democratic.
“These people don’t play according to the rules,” said Newsom. “If you cannot win the game with the existing rules, you will change the rules. Donald Trump did that … Here is someone who tried to break this country on January 6th tried to bring democracy on fire. He realizes that he will lose in the meantime.”
In which other countries are potentially redistribution?
Vice President JD Vance should visit Indiana on Thursday to advance the redistribution Indiana Capital Chronicle.
Mike Braun, governor of Indiana Gop, said that no obligations were made from now on if they were asked about the capital of Chronicle about redistribution in the Hoosier state.
In addition to California, the leaders of great democratic states consider their own redistribution in response to Texas.
The New York governor Kathy Hochul wrote in one Published in the Houston Chronicle Tuesday that they would “not sit on the side” and “dismantle republican democracy”.
“What Texas does is not a clever strategy, it is political arson – our democracy to cling to power,” wrote Hochul. “The only practicable recourse is to fight the fire with fire.”
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker appeared together with the chairman of the Democratic National Committee Ken Martin and a group of Exiled Texan Democratic Legislators At a press conference on Tuesday. Pritzker said it was “possible” that the state would pursue a redistribution, According to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Other democratic governorship, Laura Kelly from Ruby-Red Kansas, raised the prospect during a democratic governor association Meeting in Wisconsin last week to pursue the redistribution in the middle of the decades when Texas follows.
Republican states also consider jumping in battle.
The President of the Senate of Missouri, Per Tem Tem Cindy O’laughlin, a Republican, said last week to a news radio station that it was “probably” The legislature would be called in a special meeting to pull out the lines of distribution afterwards Print from Trump.
And Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican who holds the three US house seats in Nebraska, but plans to withdraw. told the Nebraska Examiner that the Republicans in the state had discussions about a possible redistribution.
What disadvantage do some see?
A armed arms to shorten the cycle for the newly drawn congress lines could cost to overhaul the redistribution process.
Common thing, a national pro-democracy group that campaigns for election reforms such as impartial redistribution, asked the Democrats not to react to Texas.
A redistributed arms would only lead to “manipulated elections throughout America”, Emily Eby French, the political director for common cause, Texas, said last week at a press call. It was wrong for Republicans to “put a thumb on the scale” by redistribution, she said, but also wrong that Democrats do the same.
“The real solution is for Democrats that help us to raise the republican thumb from the scale in Texas and in any other scale in America until we reach for all free and fair elections.”
Care party leaders?
Trump, whose urgent Texas Republicans seemed to act, has consistently pushed the legislators in this state to strengthen the GOP advantage there.
On Tuesday, he said on CNBC that the Republicans in Texas were “justified” for five other house seats.
Martin, the DNC chairman, replied in Illinois.
“No party is entitled to a district,” he said. “We have to go out and earn the voices.”
Nevertheless, Martin Democrats advised Blue States to do the opposite by reacting to the Republicans in Texas in kind.
In An interview with the status newsroom last weekMartin suggested that democratic states drop a commitment to impartial redistribution in response to Texas.
“We are not here to bind one of our hands behind our back,” he said. “We can’t be the only party that plays according to the rules.”
How does the congress react?
At least two GOP House legislators who represent blue states that oppose Trump – take it on themselves to introduce invoices in the congress that excludes these initiatives.
GOP MP Kevin Kiley from California hired an invoice in the House This week that would prohibit the country’s redistribution in the whole country.
Kiley said opinion Early this week.
“Fortunately, the congress has the ability to protect California voters who use his authority according to the election clause of the US constitution,” he said. “This will also prevent a harmful redistribution war from breaking out throughout the country.”
Rep. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, also said he Plans for the introduction of legislation “Partisan gerrymanening and redistribution in the middle of the decades”.
The New York Republican announced on Tuesday that “the reason is the reason why the congress was broken” and added that “they have no competitive districts, and most members concentrate on primary elections and do not participate in a general choice.”
