Republican Texas gerrymandering to increase. Why?

[applegrove]

"Constitutional concerns highlighted by the US Dept of Justice"........... right.

Gov Abbott is doing Donald Trump's bidding and will try to steal the 2026 US House election by gerrymandering four Texas seats for GOP candidates.

The Texas map is ALREADY gerrymandered! We’ve been challenging Texas’s maps in court for 3+ years.

— John Bisognano (@johnbisognano.com) 2025-07-09T21:52:04.556Z

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[walkingman]

2. Why? Because they can - I don't see the judicial system doing anything to stop them. Hope I'm wrong.

[SheltieLover]

3. Because they are scared shitless of Dems AND because they can get away with it.

[Chasstev365]

4. The 2026 House Races should be focused on Blue State Republicans

States with Democratic controlled election supervision ; Governors, AG's, and Secretary of States. Target California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York Republicans .

[applegrove]

5. We should target every district. There could be many wide swing after another 1.5 years of Trump.

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[Chasstev365]

6. I get your point

I just feel the cheating on Red State will be unbelievably high.

[Blue Full Moon]

7. The same is going on in Ohio.

So no matter how many people vote for the democratic party the area will remain under republican control. They only stay in power because they cheat.

[dsc]

8. they might regret this

In 1990 Democrats heavily gerrymandered some southern states such as Georgia. By 1994, those districts moved to the right and turned. I don't know what the tipping point is but they might find out the hard way.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Republicans are trying to further gerrymander a state that already has districts that look like this:

Link to tweet

[Torchlight]

10. To which California has responded, 'OK, us too. Draw.'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Texas Redistricting-As a voting rights volunteer, I was amused to learn a new term "dummymander"

I have been volunteering on voting rights/voter protection since 2004 when I went to Florida as part of the Kerry Edwards voter protection team. I have testified before committees of both the Texas House and Senate on gerrymandered districts. Part of my testimony was used in a prior lawsuit that unfortunately failed. Texas is heavily gerrymandered. My congressional district went from a R+1 to a R+21 as part of the last gerrymander. trump wants Ohio and Texas to re-gerrymander their districts to help in the midterms. I was amused to see that these efforts run a risk of failing

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/texas-redistricting-00448145

But in Texas, Republicans are in danger of creating a so-called dummymander, whereby an attempt to draw more seats for one party accidentally benefits the other. Texas’ congressional map already heavily favors the GOP, so any changes to further benefit the party would have to walk a careful line. Adding Republican voters to blue districts to reduce Democrats’ margins means taking those same voters out of the red districts where they reside. The result is more competitive districts across the board — ones Democrats hope to take advantage of as they harness anti-Trump energy in the midterms.

“They are playing a little bit of roulette with these maps,” said Rep. Julie Johnson (D-Texas). “In a wave election like what we have a potential opportunity for in ‘26 I think it makes these Republicans very vulnerable.”

Texas has 38 House seats, with 25 held by Republicans. Members of the state’s Democratic delegation huddled with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as the redistricting talk ramped up, with follow-up meetings planned.

Jeffries warned in a statement Wednesday that an aggressive map could “result in making several incumbent House Republicans vulnerable to fierce general election challenges.”

“Republicans are cutting off their nose to spite their face,” he added.....

Democrats are almost certain to sue over whatever new maps are created in both Ohio and Texas, said John Bisognano, president of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

“I imagine we will have a lot to say about the map they create and the legalities of it,” he said Thursday.

On top of everything else, there is a trial going on with respect to the Texas maps that these efforts may affect.

This will be fun to watch