Democrats are N OT gonna let Republicans out game them on the redistricting front which is NOT just about the 2026 Midterms….
But also about the 2028 Electoral college House Districts numbers in picking the next American President…
Democrats are setting the stage to pursue redistricting efforts in as many as 13 states before 2028, redrawing congressional lines to secure potentially dozens of additional House seats, according to an internal strategy memo obtained exclusively by TIME. To move forward on that plan, party strategists have a list of fewer than two dozen state legislative seats they need to flip in this year’s midterm elections.
“Our ability to go on offense in this year’s environment is not only important for power in 2026, but will have an enormous impact on the power we can build through the end of the decade and wield in the post-2030 redistricting process,” wrote Heather Williams, the president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the Democrats’ official arm that works on state legislative races.
Democrats are still smarting from the initial round of the redistricting wars that kicked off last year. Republicans appear to have done better at gerrymandering maps in states like Texas and Florida to give them an edge in this year’s midterm elections. The Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act in April set that fight into overdrive.
So Democrats plan to be more aggressive on the redistricting front ahead of 2028, and taking advantage of a favorable election environment in 2026 is key. Williams tells me her committee sees hundreds of statehouse seats as flippable this fall. Of those, just 19 targeted races would deliver Democrats a trifecta—the governorship and majorities in the state House and Senate—in four states: Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. That would open the doors to Democratic-led redistricting should those state houses choose to go down that path.
In other words, fewer than two dozen small-time races for seats in Madison, Wis., Lansing, Mich., and the like stand to sway control of the U.S. House in 2028 and beyond, according to DLCC’s analysis. It’s a plan that, if executed well, could make life very difficult for as many as 51 Republican House members, whose districts could be carved up to give Democrats’ nakedly partisan advantages….
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So with an eye at going tit-for-tat against Republicans’ gerrymandering spree, Democrats see the midterms as just the next battle in the never-ending redistricting wars. “Redistricting is no longer a once-in-a-decade conversation,” Williams wrote to her donors in the memo going out Monday. “If you care about federal power, state legislatures matter now and they matter in every single election.”….
Note….
The Supreme’s Voting Right’s call HAS open the door for a ‘free-for-all’ in redistricting across the country by BOTH parties….
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