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California Democrats are behind a new proposal to ban mid-decade redistricting and require every state to adopt a nonpartisan, independent redistricting commission to draw congressional maps. The ...

Pete Buttigieg, the former U.S. transportation secretary and potential 2028 presidential candidate, slammed Indiana ...

California congressional wannabes aren’t waiting for Prop. 50 to start campaigning in the newly drawn districts. Candidates ...

The State Department of Finance has sent a letter to the California Controller asking that a combined $251-million be reimbursed to California’s 58 counties for the costs of putting on a special ...

The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC controlled by House Republicans, has donated $5 million to McCarthy and Patterson’s “No on Prop. 50 Stop the Sacramento Power Grab” effort.

A ranching region along the Oregon border with just 8,500 residents, Modoc flies flags advocating secession from California.

The Democratic National Committee has formally aligned with California Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposal to change the boundaries ...

Last month, the California Legislature drafted a ballot measure, Proposition 50, that would authorize replacing the ...

Both parties' positions on Prop 50 illustrate how party politics always shape redistricting fights, even when the fights are over efforts to hand map-drawing power to independent groups.

The Democratic National Committee is jumping into Gavin Newsom’s redistricting campaign in California for the first time with an initiative to target Latino voters, a crucial voting bloc that helped ...

Gerrymandering expert David Daley says a handful of Democrats warned about the power of redistricting decades ago, but too ...